An engineer, entrepreneur and hands-on project leader, Marc Amerigo has spent more than thirty years working in environments where complexity, pressure and minimal room for error require people to think and act differently.
An engineer of complex environments
A graduate of École Centrale de Lyon, with further training at EM Lyon Business School and the University of Maryland, Marc Amerigo has built a career at the intersection of engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation.
From aeronautics and nuclear power to marine engineering, automotive projects and environmental technologies, he has led assignments where both technical and human constraints are exceptionally demanding. As an inventor or contributor to fourteen patents, he has developed an approach based on observation, creativity and cooperation between disciplines that are usually kept apart.
World records as a laboratory
Marc Amerigo applies this culture of innovation to extreme sports. Working with champions such as Éric Barone, Edmond Plawczyk and Antoine Albeau, he has contributed to nine world speed records.
These adventures are more than sporting achievements. They are real-life laboratories for leadership, decision-making and collective performance. When pressure reaches its highest level, technical expertise alone is not enough: trust, fluid relationships and the ability to mobilise every form of intelligence become decisive.
Zephir Project: uniting technology, people and the environment
With Antoine Albeau, twenty-seven-time windsurfing world champion, Marc Amerigo co-founded Zephir Project. This international programme brings together engineers, researchers, students, industrial partners and athletes to push the limits of sailing speed while developing responsible innovations.
The project combines biomimicry, digital simulation, human sciences and advanced technologies. It embodies Marc's central conviction: environmental constraints do not necessarily limit performance; they can become powerful drivers of innovation.
From performance to UltraPerformance
Through his concept of UltraPerformance, Marc Amerigo champions a form of performance that sacrifices neither people nor the environment. He distinguishes pure performance, often achieved at the cost of exhaustion, from sustainable performance based on the alignment of technical excellence, human fulfilment and collective purpose.
His approach is built around seven pillars drawn from field experience: the explorer mindset, trust, humility, transmission, creativity, commitment and collective fluidity.
A speaker who has lived what he teaches
Marc Amerigo has delivered more than 300 talks in France and internationally. On stage, he takes audiences behind the scenes of critical industrial projects, world records and situations where a single decision can change everything.
His stories become directly applicable lessons for organisations: deciding under uncertainty, breaking down silos, unlocking collective intelligence, turning constraints into solutions and sustaining human commitment over time.
Author of The Quest for UltraPerformance – Uniting Technology, People and the Environment: A Realistic Utopia, he also teaches leadership within the Executive Master programme at École Polytechnique.
