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Executive Committee

THE GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE implements overall Group strategy. In addition to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, it comprises five members with extensive professional experience, including in major international groups in France and abroad, and who now occupy key company functions. Meeting twice a month, the Group Executive Committee oversees strategic plans, defines consolidated goals, decides on priorities and allocates the resources needed for Strategic Business Areas, Continental Structures and Group Functions.

  • Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SEB SA

    Since 2000

    Aged 57

    A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, he began his career in the United States as Financial Controller at Allendale Insurance Johnson before spending 4 years with Coopers & Lybrand as Audit Manager in Paris.  Afterwards he joined Groupe Chargeurs, holding different positions in the Finance department before serving as Chief Financial Officer and later as Chief Executive Officer of Croisières Paquet.

    He joined Groupe SEB in 1994, becoming Chairman of Calor, before being appointed Deputy Chairman of SEB SA in 1999.

    Board member of Club Méditerranée SA, Plastic Omnium and Legrand, and permanent representative of Sofinaction on the Board of Lyonnaise de Banque.

    Board member of Supor since January 2008.