Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise

Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise is a French businessman.[1][2] He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Groupe SEB.[1][2][3][4]

Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise
Born (1954-10-27) 27 October 1954
Lyon, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materESCP Europe
OccupationBusinessman
TitleCEO, Groupe SEB
Spouse(s)Bénédicte Lescure
Children5
RelativesEmmanuel Lescure (father-in-law)

Biography

Early life

Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise was born in Lyon.[3] He is a Count and descendant of Henri de la Tour (1627-1687), Lord of Artaise-le-Vivier in the Ardennes.[3] He graduated from ESCP Europe in Paris.[1] He is a chartered accountant.[1] He speaks Thai, Portuguese and English fluently, and some Italian and Chinese.[3]

Career

From 1979 to 1983, he was an audit manager with Coopers & Lybrand.[1] He served as the chief financial officer of Croisières Paquet, a subsidiary of Groupe Chargeurs, from 1984 to 1986, and as CEO from 1986 to 1993.[1]

He joined Groupe SEB in 1994.[1] He served as chairman of Calor (now a subsidiary of Groupe SEB) from 1996 to 1998 and as its CEO from 1994 to 1998.[1] In 1999, he became vice president of Groupe SEB.[2] Since 2000, he has served as its chairman and CEO.[1][2][4] He owns 125,417 shares of Groupe SEB.[2]

He sits on the supervisory board of Siparex and Rowenta, on the advisory council of the Banque de France, and on the management board of Actiref.[1] He sits on the board of directors of Plastic Omnium, Legrand and Club Med.[1]

Personal life

He married Bénédicte Lescure in 1980.[4] She is the daughter of Emmanuel Lescure, and granddaughter of Louis-Frédéric Lescure (1904-1993), who founded Groupe SEB in 1925.[4] Her family own 43.9% its shares and are worth 1.4 billion euros.[3][5]

They have five children.[6]

gollark: Interesting question. All the search results I can find after about five seconds looking are for beeswax, which is of course a less interesting question.
gollark: https://xkcd.com/2276/
gollark: You can still explain to people that they'll lose money on average and they might understand it and still not actually care.
gollark: I'm not sure about that.
gollark: I don't see how it's particularly helpful to compare it to other things, foolish humans still have awful intuition for probability.

References
  1. "Stocks". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  2. "Conseil d'administration - Portail du Groupe SEB". www.groupeseb.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  3. Les petits secrets de Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise, le patron de Seb, Capital, 06/12/2010
  4. Chez Seb, le " made in France " est un sport de combat , Le Point, 20/01/2012
  5. Bottin Mondain, 2005
  6. "Les petits secrets de Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise, le patron de Seb". capital.fr. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
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