Dewost said: "With Leonard, Vinci is offering me a chance to contribute to the digital transformation of durable structures and move from bytes to concrete.

Philippe Dewost (pictured), former head of the digital economy section of the investments of the future programme at state-owned Groupe Caisse des Dépôts (CDC), has this month been appointed director of Leonard, France-based construction company Vinci’s innovation and foresight platform.

Dewost is a co-founder of internet service provider Wanadoo and has also been CEO of ImSense, a UK-based startup was acquired by Apple in 2010.

Starting in 2011, Dewost then joined CDC and by the end of 2015, had launched…