About

Cristophe Brie is an accomplished general counsel with particular expertise in compliance and risk management. With a career spanning over 25 years in the law, Brie began his career at Air France in 1990, spending a total of 10 years working primarily on labour law litigation, contracts and presiding over legal information systems. In 2000 he joined global provider of innovative high-tech engineering services Altran Technologies as group general counsel. During this period Brie managed the company’s intellectual property, insurance, corporate law and criminal business law needs in addition to training managers and leaders. Six years later Brie took on his current position as general counsel of Sonepar France, the electrical home and industrial equipment supplier. Heading a team of two lawyers as well as a network of eight correspondents Brie has facilitated the acquisition of a number of companies for Sonepar by defining and prioritising actions in relation to managing risk levels and task assignments. During his time he has embedded a risk policy that provides the legal framework for potential new business ventures that remains both viable and consistent with business strategy. One of his most significant achievements at Sonepar has been integrating over 600 branch managers and their operational units to adopting a pragmatic legal approach to sales.