He will succeed Stéphane Noël, who has decided to leave the group to pursue a new opportunity at the end of March and will ensure a smooth transition in the coming weeks.
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sébastien brings strong leadership experience gained since joining Forvia in 2014. Over the past ten years, he has held several management positions, including program manager within the Business Group Interior Systems, then Vice President in charge of sales, programs, and strategy for the Business Group Clean Mobility. Since July 2025, he had served as Executive Vice President of Clean Mobility.
He will report directly to Martin Fischer, the group’s Chief Executive Officer, who stated: "Sébastien’s appointment comes at a time when Seating has significant opportunities to accelerate its growth and create more value for our customers and for the group. His proven ability to drive innovation and strengthen operational performance makes him the ideal leader to take our Seating activities to new heights."
FORVIA SE is one of the world leaders in designing, manufacturing, and marketing automotive equipment. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- seats (32%; No. 1 worldwide);
- interior car parts (18.9%; 1 worldwide): dashboards and instrument panels (No. 1 worldwide), doors and door panels, and acoustic modules;
- audiovisual and multimedia equipment (15.5%): car radios, multimedia devices, navigation systems, automatic guiding systems, location systems, safety assistance systems with CDD captor cameras, wireless communication, monitors, etc.;
- exhaust systems (15.4%; No. 1 worldwide);
- lighting equipment (14.4%);
- other (3.8%).
At the end of 2024, the group had more than 290 production sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (5.8%), Germany (10.3%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (30.7%), Asia (26.7%) and America (26.5%).
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