Daniel Parfait has recently retired after serving over ten years as Chief Executive Officer of Safran Mexico, the Mexican subsidiary of the French aerospace company Safran Group, with 14,000 employees and 19 factories across 3 Mexican states. Mr. Parfait has also had a distinguished public sector career serving as the French Ambassador to Mexico (2008-2012); Under Secretary for the Americas (United States, Canada, and Latin America) for the French Foreign Ministry; French Ambassador to Colombia (2000-2004). Mr. Parfait also served as Director for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Parfait’s education includes degrees from ENA, France’s Graduate School for National Administration, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, the University of Paris, and Lycée Pierre de Fermat in Toulouse. Mr. Parfait is married to Roxana Velasquez, President & CEO of the San Diego Museum of Art.
