FORVIA appoints AI chief Raphaël Viard to its Executive Committee
FORVIA has promoted its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Raphaël Viard, to the group's Executive Committee, where he will report directly to CEO Martin Fischer.
- More than 20 years
- August 2025
What Happened
FORVIA has appointed Raphaël Viard, its Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, to the group's Executive Committee. He will report directly to Martin Fischer, the group's Chief Executive Officer. FORVIA says the appointment reflects the increasingly strategic role of artificial intelligence in its transformation and the group's ambition to harness digital technologies, data and AI as key drivers of competitiveness, operational performance and value creation.
“With IGNITE, we have defined a clear roadmap to strengthen our foundations and prepare FORVIA for its next phase of growth. Artificial Intelligence is a powerful accelerator of this transformation. Raphaël's appointment to the Executive Committee reflects our conviction that digital technologies, data and AI will play a decisive role in our ability to create value, increase agility and strengthen FORVIA's technology leadership.”
Viard joined FORVIA in August 2025 as Group Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer, before being appointed Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer. Since joining the group, FORVIA says he has accelerated the integration of core systems, strengthened its data and AI capabilities and established a disciplined approach to scaling the digital and AI initiatives with the greatest potential to create value. He brings more than 20 years of experience in digital transformation and technology leadership.
- More than 20 years in digital transformation and technology leadership
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud transformation
- IoT platforms
- Enterprise IT strategy
- Senior positions at Alstom, SNCF, Saint-Gobain and Bouygues Construction before joining FORVIA
Joins FORVIA as Group Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer
Appointed to FORVIA's Executive Committee as Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer
“Artificial Intelligence marks a new chapter in FORVIA's transformation. Our ambition is to make AI a company-wide capability that serves every part of the business, from innovation and industrial operations to customer engagement and decision-making. Joining the Executive Committee is both an honor and an opportunity to contribute even more directly to FORVIA's transformation and to the successful execution of IGNITE.”
Why this matters
FORVIA is putting artificial intelligence at the centre of its transformation, and this appointment gives its AI chief a direct line to the CEO. The group says AI should become a company-wide capability serving innovation, industrial operations, customer engagement and decision-making, so the shift reaches well beyond the IT function. FORVIA frames digital technologies, data and AI as drivers of competitiveness, operational performance and value creation.
Terms in This Story
- Executive Committee
- The senior leadership team of a company, which sets group-wide strategy and oversees major decisions.
- IGNITE
- A named corporate transformation program; FORVIA's CEO describes it as a roadmap to strengthen the group's foundations and prepare it for its next phase of growth.
- IoT platforms
- Internet of Things platforms: software systems that connect physical devices and sensors to networks so they can collect and exchange data.
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