Paul Queveau

Paul Quéveau is a French automotive executive who chaired the management board (président du directoire) of Heuliez, the coachbuilder and vehicle-systems company based at Cerizay in the Deux-Sèvres, in the mid-2000s. He led the company through the period when it moved away from its long history of bodywork for lorries, vans, buses and ambulances and toward developing and building vehicles and vehicle modules of its own design. In a 2006 interview with the trade magazine L'argus he described this as a double reorientation: first toward finished products that were entirely the fruit of Heuliez research and innovation, such as the retractable roof of the Peugeot 206 CC and the complete Opel Tigra TwinTop, and second toward international expansion, with assembly in Spain, a new plant in Slovakia, a sales subsidiary in Germany and offices in Detroit, Japan, South Korea and Shanghai. The same interview records that the company held more than 200 patents on retractable-roof technology and had produced some 350,000 roof and boot modules since 2000. The sources consulted here do not give his birth date, nationality or career before Heuliez.