Biography
Gwenael Pillon heads the real estate unit of ANAP, the French national agency for healthcare and social care performance, having served as a real estate expert there since 2022. In this role, Gwenael Pillon supports healthcare and social care facilities, as well as regional health agencies, in appraising their building projects.
An engineer by training, specialising in HVAC, Gwenael Pillon began in 1999 as a project manager at the engineering firm HGM Ingénierie in Lyon, then joined Jacobs Engineering in 2002. Over five years there, Gwenael Pillon led the building services packages of major hospital projects (Caen University Hospital, Foch Hospital, Évreux Hospital, AP-HM La Timone in Marseille) and managed teams of engineers and technicians.
In 2007, Gwenael Pillon moved into consulting and client-side project management at Hospiconseil, advising Caen University Hospital, the Annemasse and Pontoise general hospitals and the Sarthe psychiatric hospital.
From project owner to hospital executive
In 2009, Gwenael Pillon joined the MGEN group as head of hospital building projects, leading several construction projects as project owner.
From 2013 to 2018, as Director of Real Estate and General Services at an MGEN hospital in the Paris region, Gwenael Pillon coordinated the rebuilding of the 485-bed facility.
After training in hospital finance, Gwenael Pillon served from 2019 to 2022 as Director of Finance and General Services for the same facility.
This career path, from building services engineering to hospital management, now underpins Gwenael Pillon’s national expertise on hospital building projects at ANAP.