New Managing Director for the CCI Group of Companies

Denis Pellerin is a Civil Engineer from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1983) and has received his MBA from INSEAD (1990). He has 35 years of experience in the trenchless crossings industry.

In 1985, he joined the start-up company, HDI, as a field engineer. HDI became one of the world’s foremost HDD contractors, introducing horizontal directional drilling into Europe, Australia and several countries in Africa, South East Asia and South America. During those pioneering years, Denis and his HDI colleagues introduced new HDD techniques, such as buoyancy control systems for large-diameter pipelines, entry casings for pilot holes and gravel shield reamers.

After serving as Site Engineer, Project Manager, Operations Manager and Commercial Manager, Denis was appointed Managing Director of HDI SA in 1991.

Throughout his career, Denis has implemented horizontal directional drilling, Direct Pipe^®, microtunnelling, pipe ramming and auger drilling technologies, sometimes combining techniques in order to gain optimal efficiency.

His career with HDI has taken him on more than 2200 trenchless crossings projects, spanning more than 40 different countries worldwide, all safely concluded.

Together with HDI, Denis received several industry recognitions, in Australia (1987), US (1999), Europe (2011) and France (2012, 2015 and 2018), for innovative HDD projects onshore, as well as marine based. He was a founding member and the first treasurer of the professional organisation DCA Europe in 1994 and served as its Vice President from 2008 to 2016.