VISION AND VALUES

We are a company with a mission: to act for climate. This is embedded in our mindset and set in stone in the company legal status.We thrive to achieve climate-neutral business operations. We believe in Science.
We promote inclusion at large (e.g. genders, origins, religions).

History

FARWIND ENERGY is a spin-off of Ecole Centrale de Nantes. Ecole Centrale de Nantes is a world-leading university for marine renewable energy research. It deployed the first floating offshore wind turbine in France in 2016.

Aurélien Babarit, as the head of the marine renewable energy research at Ecole Centrale de Nantes group from 2012 to 2020 started investigating the energy ship technology in 2016 with Jean-Christophe Gilloteaux, offshore wind energy expert.

The results being very promising, FARWIND ENERGY was created in July 2020 along with his co-founders, Félix Gorintin and Arnaud Poitou.

TEAM

FARWIND is a spin-off of Ecole Centrale de Nantes, one of the world-leading university for marine renewable energy research. As such, at FARWIND, we believe and listen to science. That’s why acting for climate is one of our core values.

Arnaud Poitou - Chairman & cofounder

Arnaud Poitou brings its joint experience of ambitious public private partnership in Deeptech and executive management.
Education: PhD in Materials engineering of Mines ParisTech, MSc of Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)

Félix Gorintin - CCO & cofounder

Félix Gorintin brings to FARWIND Energy its expertise in technology development strategy approach for offshore renewable energies and a hands-on experience as cofounder of a cleantech.
Education: MSc of Ecole Centrale Paris

THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TEAM

Philippe BACLET, Energy conversion and storage Director
Amélie BARDIN, Fluid mechanics and CFD engineer
Brice BOGNET, R&D Project Manager
Emmanuel BON, Mechanical Design Research Engineer
Antoine CAILLAUD, Engineering Director
Vinciane CHEREAU, Research engineer in electrical engineering
Titouan COMMUNIER, Mechanical design apprentice
Nicolas DUBEAU, apprentice
Baptiste ELIE, R&D Project Manager
Antoine GROSSE, Apprentice (routing)
Maël HARNIEH, Fluid and thermal engineering research engineer
Mathieu HOTTIN, Industrial manager rotor sail
Stéphanie HOUEL, General Secretary
Giovanni JUIN-GAUTHIER, PhD student, real time optimisation
Fatiha MOHAMMED ARAB, Hydrogeneration Engineer
Grégory PAYNE, Experimental Projects Manager
Fabio PILI, PhD student in naval architecture
Emmanuel PUIG, Research engineer in energy modeling and demonstrator operation
and our trainees:
Samuel AUTEXIER
Samtou-Wilfried BAKPAH
Salma EL ASRY
Noé RUBIO DE TERAN
Vincent SCHULTZ