Michel Charton joined the company in 1986 as Head of Production at Le Havre Refinery and in 1997 he was appointed Responsible for management skills and training for the refining Managers. In 2000, he was nominated as Head of Valorization Program Department at the Dunkirk Refinery. In 2003, based in Brussels, he was named Pilot of Total Refinery of Antwerp and Total Refinery of the Netherlands. In 2005, Michel was named CEO of SARA – Refinery of West Indies. He was appointed General Manager of Donges Refinery in 2009 and General Manager of Carling Refinery in 2012. In 2014, Michel was appointed Senior Vice President Refining Base Chemicals Europe while he also sat on the Group Performance Management Committee. Since September 2021, Michel is Senior Vice President Health Safety Environment. Michel was born in 1961, he is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Lyon (1985).