Coda Octopus Group, Inc. announced the appointment of Gwenael Rouy Poirier to fill a vacancy created by the recent decision of the Board to expand the number of seats on the Company?s Board. Gwenael is an experienced business leader with over 27 years? experience, mostly in the Aerospace and Defense industries.

Residing in Switzerland, his international career has taken him to live and work in several countries in Asia, to the USA and the UK. Until recently he served as Group CFO for GKN Aerospace, a $4 billion company operating in 35 locations and where he introduced a number of management practices to improve efficiency and crafted the profitability roadmap. Prior to this he spent most of his career at Honeywell in several business segments where his last role was CFO of the Smart Energy division.

Gwenael earned his Master of Management at EDHEC Business School, in France. The vacancy was a result of the Board of Directors expanding the number of seats on the Board.