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President of the Executive Board
Born in 1972, Sébastien Fraisse is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He began his career at the French Ministry of Public Works as head of a major works district in Moselle (1998-2001), in charge of studies and implementation of road projects.
In 2001, he joined Autoroutes du Sud de la France (ASF), where he held the positions of Deputy Regional Manager Provence-Camargue and then Regional Manager West-Atlantic. In 2006, ASF became part of the VINCI Group, and he was appointed Project Director in charge of synergies at VINCI Concessions. He then rejoined ASF to take charge of operations: first of all support services, then the South-East network until 2010, when he was appointed Deputy Managing Director. In October 2012, he left VINCI Autoroutes for VINCI Park, where he took up the position of Executive Vice-President for France, responsible for development and operation of the French network.
In June 2014, VINCI Park became INDIGO and Sébastien Fraisse was appointed member of the INDIGO Group Management Board.
In November 2022, he became Managing Director of the INDIGO Group, before being appointed President of the INDIGO Group Management Board in April 2023.
Deputy Managing Director, Finance and Americas - Member of the Executive Board
Born in 1986, Edouard Risso is a graduate of Paris Dauphine University and holds a Specialized Masters in Finance from ESCP. He began his career with Crédit Agricole in real estate structured finance. He spent a year in Athens with the Emporiki Bank subsidiary. In 2010, he joined Rothschild & Cie in the Debt Advisory team.
In January 2012, he joined INDIGO as a financial analyst, before being appointed Group Finance & Treasury Director in 2014. In January 2018, he took up the position of CFO France.
Edouard Risso was appointed Group CFO and member of INDIGO’s Management Board in 2020.
In November 2022, he became Deputy Managing Director, in charge of the Americas region, in addition to his duties as CFO.
Deputy Managing Director, Urban Shift - member of the Executive Board
Born in 1973, Xavier Heulin is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) and holds a Master’s degree from the École Supérieure des Travaux Publics, du Bâtiment et de l’Industrie (ESTP). He began his career in 1996 with the Bouygues group, successively as Works Engineer in Lille and Sales Department Manager in the Île-de-France region.
In 2006, he founded Urbis Park, a parking operator that he managed for 15 years, successively on behalf of shareholders Covivio (formerly Foncière des Régions) and Crédit Agricole Assurances, then Transdev. In 2016, he led the transformation of Urbis Park’s business model by separating operations, sold to the Transdev group and renamed Transdev Park, from asset ownership, sold in part to Vauban Infrastructure Partners. In addition to traditional on-street parking activities, he is developing on-street parking management activities, in particular thanks to the decriminalization reform that came into force in 2018.
In 2021, he led the sale of Transdev Park’s on-street parking activities to the INDIGO group.
In December 2021, Xavier Heulin joined INDIGO as Group Chief Technology and Marketing Officer and member of the Executive Board.
In November 2022, he took over as head of a new entity, Urban Shift, dedicated to supporting the transformation of cities, including road management.
General Secretary - Member of the Executive Board
Valérie Ohannessian is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris, with a bachelor’s degree in public law, a master’s degree in private law and a Master 2 in business law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She became a member of the Paris Bar in March 2018.
She began her career in insurance, as Director of Public Affairs at the Fédération française des sociétés d’assurance, before joining GAN as Project Manager for privatization, then Director of Strategy and Communications. In 2001, she joined the French Banking Federation, where she was appointed Deputy General Manager in 2009, with particular responsibility for retail banking and means of payment. In January 2021, she became Managing Director of the French Society of Financial Analysts (SFAF).
Valérie Ohannessian joined the INDIGO Group in December 2022 as a member of the Management Board, in the position of General Secretary.
Maganing Director, Europe
Belgian-English nationality, born in 1971, Thomas Bimson trained as a Sales Engineer and also holds a degree in Philosophy (Université Catholique de Louvain 1994). After holding various sales and management positions with the PetroFina Group (Total Group), he joined CityParking in 2000 as Sales Director.
He developed the company first in Belgium through organic growth and then in Norway through acquisitions. Promoted to Managing Director in 2004, he continued the company’s growth and accompanied 3 changes of shareholders. Thomas joined the INDIGO group in 2008 as Managing Director for Belgium, a subsidiary he and his team developed strongly over 10 years. Since January 2018, in addition to his duties in Belgium, Thomas has held the position of Director of the Central Europe zone (Belgium-Luxembourg-Switzerland) where he established INDIGO in Poland in 2020.
In November 2022, it will include France and Spain within its scope.
Managing Director, Digital & Customer Experience Director
A graduate of the École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Saint-Etienne (ENISE/Centrale Lyon), Wilfried began his career in the Vinci Group’s Construction division before joining VINCI Park’s UK subsidiary in 2002 to develop the concession business.
Promoted to International Director in 2005, he is responsible for expansion in Central Europe and North America. In this capacity, he oversaw several mergers and acquisitions, including the acquisition of a stake in the American company LAZ Parking, where he became Senior Vice-President in charge of operations in 2010.
In 2012, he was asked to head up European activities before being appointed, in 2015, to head up the Group’s North American and UK activities, now known as INDIGO. Appointed Director of Digital and Customer Experience in November 2022, he is responsible for the worldwide management of the Digital, Customer Experience and e-Mobility divisions, with the ambition of accelerating the Group’s transformation in these areas.
