Bureau Veritas appoints Santiago Arias Duval as Executive Vice-President for the Americas region

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 17, 2025--

Bureau Veritas, a global leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC), is pleased to announce the appointment of Santiago Arias Duval, effective November 17 th, 2025, as Executive Vice-President, Americas. This appointment is in line with Bureau Veritas’ new operating model effective since September 1 st, 2025.

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Bureau Veritas is evolving the structure of its executive committee to drive greater organizational alignment. This organization will empower the regions with scalable Product Lines, enabling global solutions development, and will be unlocking wider cross-selling opportunities.

The Americas region is created to leverage fast developing market opportunities across countries in North, Central and South America. This is a dynamic region for all Bureau Veritas where the group intends to expand its leadership across product lines and create new strongholds in high growth markets. The new Americas region organization will facilitate the scaling of new solutions and services and will enable superior resources utilization across all Product Lines.

Santiago Arias Duval will report to Hinda Gharbi, Chief Executive Officer of Bureau Veritas, and joins the Group Executive Committee.

Hinda Gharbi, Chief Executive Officer of Bureau Veritas, commented: “ I am delighted to welcome Santiago to the Group Executive Committee. With his wide industrial experience, proven business achievements and global operations exposures, he will drive our growth and development agenda in North, Central and South America. I am confident that Santiago and the Americas teams will take the region to the next level of growth and performance and will deliver on our LEAP I 28 ambition.

Santiago Arias Duval, Executive Vice-President, Americas commented:"I am honored to join Bureau Veritas and its talented teams across North, Central and South America. The region presents a significant opportunity for growth and for building on the company's strong foundation of technical excellence, innovation, and trust. I look forward to working closely with Hinda, the Executive Committee, and the Americas team to accelerate growth, deepen our customer relationships, and advance the ambitions of the Leap I 28 strategy."

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Biography:

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.

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About Bureau Veritas

Bureau Veritas is a world leader in inspection, certification, and laboratory testing services with a powerful purpose: to shape a world of trust by ensuring responsible progress. With a vision to be the preferred partner for customers’ excellence and sustainability, the company innovates to help them navigate change.

Created in 1828, Bureau Veritas’ 84,000 employees deliver services in 140 countries. The company’s technical experts support customers to address challenges in quality, health and safety, environmental protection, and sustainability.

Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, SBF 120 indices and is part of the CAC SBT 1.5° index. Compartment A, ISIN code FR 0006174348, stock symbol: BVI.

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Santiago Arias Duval, EVP Americas at Bureau Veritas

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says Sonny Gray admitted he expressed a desire to play in New York at the behest of his agent so as not to harm his free-agency value and didn't voice his dislike of the Big Apple until after the 2018 trade deadline had passed.

Gray was acquired by Boston in a trade from St. Louis last month and spoke of his 1 1/2 seasons in New York during a Zoom news conference on Dec. 2.

“New York was, it just wasn’t a good situation for me, wasn’t a great setup for me and my family,” he said. “I never wanted to go there in the first place.”

His agent denied Cashman's allegations in an email to The Associated Press.

Gray was traded from Oakland to the Yankees in July 2017 and went 15-16 with a 4.52 ERA with New York. He was dropped from the rotation in August 2018 after he smirked when fans booed as he walked off the Yankee Stadium mound in the third inning of a 7-5 loss to Baltimore. He was dealt to Cincinnati in January 2019.

“After the deadline was over, he asked to meet with me. He said, 'Hey, can we talk?'” Cashman said Sunday night after arriving at the winter meetings.

Cashman recalled meeting with Gray in the clubhouse office of Chad Bohling, the Yankees' senior director of organizational performance.

“He said, 'I thought you were going to trade me,'” Cashman said. “I was like, publicly I’m out trying to get pitching, starting pitching and bullpen. Why would I trade a starter when we need pitching badly? ... And he goes, ‘Well I got to tell you, I’ve never wanted to —' that’s when he told me he never wanted to be here. He hates New York. This is the worst place. He just sits in his hotel room."

“I said, Well it’s a little late now,” Cashman recalled. “So then I told him, I said, but you said you wanted to be traded here. And he said, 'My agent, Bo McKinnis, told me to do that. He told me to lie. It wouldn’t be good for my free agency to say there are certain places that I don't want to go to.'”

“And I told him: Nothing I can do about it now. I wish you’d told me well beforehand. I wish we knew this before we even tried to acquire you that you never wanted to come here," Cashman said. "We tried to do our homework. … And I said so now we’ll just have to play the year out and this winter I’ll do whatever I can to move you and we moved him to the Reds.”

Cashman said the Yankees had a minor league video coordinator who had been roommates of Gray at Vanderbilt and that Gray had mentioned to his former roommate: "Tell Cash, get me over to the Yankees. Blah, blah, blah. Like I want out of Oakland. I want to win a world championship. Blah, blah, blah. So, and it wasn’t just him. He was communicating that to a number of different people that was getting to us, that he wants to be a Yankee."

McKinnis refuted Cashman's comments.

“So Brian is trying to make people believe I told Sonny to, in Cashman’s words, `lie' to the minor league video guy to try to get Sonny to the Yankees, even though, per Cashman, Sonny did not want to be with the Yankees, to subsequently somehow help Sonny’s free agency,” McKinnis wrote in an email to the AP.

“This makes zero sense,” McKinnis added. “If any player does not want to play for a certain club — thus potentially not performing at their best if they were with that team — it does not help their career and future free agency to lie their way into a trade to that club. Brian’s claim makes no sense. Further, the words, `I want out of Oakland,' have never been said by Sonny. He loved his time with the A’s.”

Now 36, Gray has become a three-time All-Star and is 125-102 with a 3.58 ERA over 13 seasons with the Athletics (2013-17), Yankees (2017-18), Reds (2019-21), Minnesota (2022-23) and Cardinals (2024-25). The right-hander waived a no-trade provision to accept the deal to the Red Sox.

“What did factor into my decision to come to Boston is it feels good to me to go to a place now where you know what, it’s easy to hate the Yankees, right? It’s easy to go out and have that rivalry and go in it with full force, full steam ahead," Gray said. "I like the challenge. I appreciate the challenge. I accept the challenge. But this time around it's just go out and be yourself. Don't try to be anything other than yourself and if people don't like it, it is what it is. I am who I am, and I'm OK with that."

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FILE - St. Louis Cardinals' Sonny Gray pitches to a San Francisco Giants batter during the first inning of a baseball game, Sept. 24, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, file)