Strategic Steering Commitee
SSC Officers
Wassim BALLOUT
Chairman
Wassim Ballout is currently Director of Technical Performance Coordination at Enedis.
He brings international experience alongside a career spanning various operational and strategic roles within EDF Group, including leading structural transformation programs at Group Strategy, supporting nuclear and industrial strategy, and managing large-scale operations in nuclear power plants.
He is a graduate of École Polytechnique, Mines Paris, and Sciences Po Paris.
Leon Vergeer
General Secretary
Leon Vergeer has been working as a management consultant for over 20 years. He worked for a wide range of international clients in a variety of industries but predominantly in energy. He has broad experience in utilities and worked in the smart metering program of Enexis in The Netherlands.
Martial Monfort
Treasurer
Martial Monfort is currently Chief Technical Officer of the ENEDIS smart metering program where he is specially focused on strategic relationship with industrial partners. He has been involved in G3-PLC development and field experimentations for more than 10 years. He joined EDF Group in 1990 where he has been working in the field of telecommunications projects, cybersecurity, broadband and narrow band PLC and smart grid services. He holds a telecom engineer degree from Sup Galilée Paris.
Cédric LAVENU
Chair Technical Working Group
Cédric Lavenu is expert research engineer at EDF R&D, where he has been working in the field of powerline communications and related smart grid applications for more than 10 years. He has made significant contributions to the G3 standard within the G3-Alliance and is active in various Standard Development Organizations such as IEC, CENELEC, IEEE and IETF. He joined EDF in 2008 aft er graduation at ESIEE (Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique) engineering school, France.
Yannick Huc
Chair Interoperability and Testing
Yannick Huc has more than 15 years’ experience in the fields of energy (smart metering, smart grid), PLC and electric mobility (smart charging, V2G, flexibility). He brings expertise in the development, validation and interoperability of communicating systems.
He joined Trialog in 2010 and has led international and cross-sector projects for both research and industry. He is active within the G3-Alliance since its creation to support interoperability testing and implementing its certification programme. He became director of Trialog in 2024, in charge of operational means.
Yannick is a graduate of Polytech Montpellier and is also a certified Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Madeleine FRANCILLARD
Chair of Certification Program Executive Committee (CPEC)
Madeleine Francillard is one of the founders of Trialog. She leads the company for 20 years as President Director General to strengthen its growth based on the implementation of innovation in industrial embedded systems from initial studies to integration. Her principal technical domains are mobility, smart grids, artificial intelligence and telecommunications.
Madeleine Francillard has five years of international experience at Siemens in Germany. She holds a Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Grenoble and a degree from the Stanford University Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business.
Anil MENGI
Chair Marketing Working Group
Anil Mengi is an accomplished engineer with extensive experience in electronics, communications, and business administration. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Istanbul Technical University, M.Sc. from Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, and a doctorate from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
He also holds an Executive MBA from Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Anil Mengi has worked at Atlas Elektronik and is currently the Vice President of Strategic Positioning at devolo AG, a global leader in powerline communication technology. He is marketing chair of G3-Alliance since 2016.
Strategic Steering Committee Members
Wassim Ballout – Enedis
Richard Schomberg- EDF
Petri Ounila – Gridspertise
Peter Mueller – Landis+Gyr EMEA
Nabil Sahri & Kaveh Razazian – Sagemcom
Daniel Derrien & Eric Djakam – ST Microelectronics
Klaus Hueske – Renesas
Aleš Potočnik – Iskraemeco
Yannick Huc and Madeleine Francillard – Trialog
Honorary Steering Committee Members
Marc Delandre (Former Enedis)
Wolfgang Lehner (Former EVN)