How Clotilde Solier Has Become Bouygues Construction’s CFO

Clotilde Solier is the Chief Financial Officer of Bouygues Construction, the €10.6bn (US$12.2bn) construction arm of the Bouygues group. 

She took up the role on 1 September 2026, joining the Executive Committee led by Chief Executive Pierre-Eric Saint-André.

Clotilde succeeds Julien Toqueboeuf, who has moved to Equans, a fellow Bouygues subsidiary. 

Her appointment places a long-serving internal candidate at the head of financial steering for a business employing 34,500 people across more than 50 countries.

A career built inside the group

Clotilde, 48, is a graduate of NEOMA Business School and has spent nearly her entire career within the Bouygues group, moving across several of its business lines.

“Thanks to the experience I have acquired at Bouygues Construction, I have gained a thorough understanding of its business lines and teams, both in France and internationally,” she says. “In my new role, I will draw on this experience in a position that works closely with operational teams, combining risk management, performance and business development support.”

Her most recent role

Immediately before her promotion, Clotilde served as CFO of Bouygues Bâtiment France, the group's domestic building division, a position she held from 2021. 

In that role, she is credited with consolidating the fundamentals of the group's risk management function and improving the quality of financial reporting, while increasing the use of data to support operational performance. 

That combination of risk discipline and data-driven decision-making is the experience she now applies at group level.

Her predecessor, Julien Toqueboeuf’s move  within the same corporate group, to Equans, keeps the leadership transition internal at both companies rather than bringing in outside candidates.

Bouygues Construction's key partners:

Government of Jersey

The Government of Jersey awarded Bouygues Construction a contract to deliver the new Overdale Acute Hospital. The project represents a major healthcare infrastructure commitment for the island, with Bouygues Construction responsible for construction as part of the island's wider health facility modernisation programme.

Government of Montenegro 

Bouygues Construction is building a new University Hospital in Montenegro on behalf of the Montenegrin government. The project forms part of the country's healthcare infrastructure development, with Bouygues Construction delivering a cutting-edge facility intended to modernise national medical and teaching capacity.

Rail Projects Victoria 

Rail Projects Victoria, representing the Victorian state government in Australia, is the client behind Melbourne's Metro Tunnel. Bouygues Construction has delivered the tunnel, its five new stations and interconnections, contributing to the transformation of urban mobility across Melbourne's public transport network.