Marie-Véronique DURANCE is graduated from the National Engineering School of Geology (Nancy-France) and from the Business Administration Institute (Nantes-France). Between 1991 and 2004 she worked for BRGM, the French Geological Survey, successively as Research engineer, Project Engineer and International Project manager, specialized in process modelling and simulation.
In 2004, with Dr Stephane Brochot, she founded Caspeo, a spin-off of BRGM. Besides the general management of the Company, Marie-Véronique DURANCE, as technical sales manager, is in charge of market development in the mineral industry and its extension to new fields of divided solids industry, such as biomass, waste and chemical industries. Still managing technical projects, she is involved in plant optimization and implementation of metallurgical accounting systems.