Pierre-Yves Roussel

Pierre-Yves Roussel
Born (1965-11-07) November 7, 1965
Paris, France
Nationality French
Other names PYR
Education

Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées (Paris)

Solvay Business School - Post Graduate (Brussels)

Wharton Business School - MBA (Philadelphia)
Occupation CEO, LVMH Fashion Group
Years active 1990–present
Children 3

Pierre-Yves Roussel (born November 7, 1965) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH Fashion Group. He is a member of the LVMH Executive Committee since 2004.[1][2]

Early life

Roussel was born in Paris, France. He graduated from École Supérieure des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées with a degree in Economics.[3] He has a postgraduate degree from Brussels University (Solvay Business School), which he earned during the time he worked at Crédit Commercial de France in Brussels.[4] Roussel has an MBA from Wharton Business School - University of Pennsylvania.

Career

He began his career as a financial analyst at Crédit Commercial de France, now known as HSBC France after obtaining an MBA from Wharton, he joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he had increasing responsibilities (France, New York, Hong Kong, Japan) before being elected partner in 1998, and then senior partner in 2004.[4]

LVMH

In 2004, Roussel joined the LVMH Executive Committee as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Operations.. In 2006, he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH Fashion Group, which includes numerous prestigious brands (Céline, Donna Karan, DKNY, Givenchy, Kenzo, Loewe, Marc Jacobs, Pucci, Nicholas Kirkwood and J. W. Anderson).[4]

Pierre-Yves Roussel successfully repositioned and developed several Fashion Houses within LVMH[5] [6] by appointing and collaborating with very talented Artistic Directors:[7] Riccardo Tisci at Givenchy, Phoebe Philo at Céline,[8] Carol Lim and Humberto Leon at Kenzo, J. W. Anderson at Loewe and, in 2015, Dao Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne at Donna Karan[9]

Memberships

Personal life

Roussel has three children from his first marriage.[4]

In January 2016, it was announced that Roussel is engaged to fashion designer Tory Burch, whom he had been dating since June 2014. [13][14]

References

  1. ↑ "Pierre-Yves Roussel, LVMH Fashion Group". LVMH. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Pierre-Yves Roussel". The Business of Fashion. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Pierre-Yves Roussel, Fashion Alchemist". The Business of Fashion. 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Sibony, Olivier; Tochtermann, Thomas (Summer 2014). "'The business of creating desire': An interview with the CEO of LVMH Fashion Group" (PDF). Perspectives on retail and consumer goods. McKinsey & Company (3): 20–25. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Roussel to the Rescue - AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW - Marion Hume". Marion Hume. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  6. ↑ "'The business of creating desire': An interview with the CEO of LVMH Fashion Group". www.mckinsey.com. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  7. ↑ Bizet, Carine (21 October 2013). "Les géants du luxe misent sur les jeunes créateurs". Le Monde (in French).
  8. ↑ Chapuis, Dominique (31 January 2013). "Céline s'affirme comme la nouvelle pépite de LVMH". Les Échos (in French).
  9. ↑ Friedman, Vanessa (29 April 2015). "DKNY Names 2 Creative Directors and Also Poaches From Apple". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ "ANDAM". ANDAM.
  11. ↑ "Assemblée Générale / Fédération Française de la Couture". Mode à Paris (in French). 1 July 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "Marques'Almeida, lauréats du prix LVMH 2015". Vogue (in French). 2015.
  13. ↑ Payer, Allyson. "Tory Burch Is Engaged to LVMH CEO Pierre-Yves Roussel". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  14. ↑ Friedman, Vanessa (2016-01-04). "Tory Burch and Pierre-Yves Roussel Become Fashion's Newest Power Couple". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
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