Bureau Veritas announced the appointment of Santiago Arias Duval, effective November 17, 2025, as Executive Vice-President, Americas. This appointment is in line with Bureau Veritas? new operating model effective since September 1, 2025.
Santiago Arias Duval will report to Hinda Gharbi, Chief Executive Officer of Bureau Veritas, and joins the Group Executive Committee. Santiago Arias Duval served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Precision Technologies at Ingersoll Rand. In this role, he was responsible for the overall strategy, operations, and commercial performance of a diverse set of businesses serving customers across multiple industries worldwide.
Joining Ingersoll Rand in 2017, Santiago held a series of leadership roles of increasing responsibility, including General Manager of Industrial Pumps and Medical North America and Vice President and General Manager of the Vacuum & Liquid Handling, and Life Sciences businesses. Throughout his tenure, Santiago has consistently delivered above-market organic growth, executed multiple acquisitions, and driven significant EBITDA margin expansion through commercial excellence, operational efficiency, and disciplined portfolio management. Before joining Ingersoll Rand, Santiago held leadership positions at Danaher Corporation, where he served as Packaging Business Unit Leader for X-Rite and as a consultant within the Danaher Business System Office, supporting global operating companies on new product commercialization.
Earlier in his career, he worked in product management at Fluke (Danaher) and in operations at General Motors. Santiago holds a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
