Event report • VIP event Aéronautique - Aérospatiale
The French Aerospace Business Reception
The Aerospace Committee welcomed the Boeing French team along with French Aerospace companies at the Rainier Club in Seattle, on April 11th.
On April 11th, the FACC PNW had the great honor to welcome Governor Inslee and Frederic Jung, Consul General of France in San Francisco, at the French Aerospace Business Reception.
Every two years, this special reception welcomes representatives from major French Aerospace companies, Business France, The Boeing Company, as well as a French Delegation from Nantes (France) and French & Washington State officials, for a pleasant evening on the sidelines of the Aerospace & Defense Supplier Summit.
Over 120 people attended the reception and enjoyed listening to the speakers for short speeches celebrating French-American collaboration in the Aerospace industry:
- Julien Hervet, FACC PNW
- Governor Jay Inslee
- Frederic Jung, Consul General of France in San Francisco
- Kendee Yamaguchi, Deputy Mayor of Seattle
- Pierre-Emmanuel Marais, Deputy Mayor of Nantes
- Samia Soultani, Conseil Régional des Pays de la Loire
- Lisa Brown, Washington State Department of Commerce
- Simon Lelievre, Business France
- Francois Guerzeder, Safran
- Jean-Marc Fron, Boeing France
- Janene Collins, Boeing
Thank you again to our generous sponsors without whom we couldn't have organized this event: Business France, Daher, Région Pays de la Loire, Safran and the Washington State Department of Commerce.
