This expatriation was not made to scare him

Its round bouille and his great smile denote the amateur of fine dining. His new position in fact the Caliph of the arts of the table. Guillaume de Fougières, forty-four years, has to be confirmed in the functions of President of the Executive Board of the Arc International Group, he assumed acting since the precipitated departure and quite suffused mystery Patrick Gournay, end of January. Financial passed by many multinational companies "B to C" (Unilever, March) and the "B to B" (Valeo), the new strong man of glassware created in 1825 to Arques and held since 1916 by family Durand was contacted as financier during the fall of 2001, a few days before the terrorist attacks of 11 September, which made diving dollar and precipitated the French luxury in the crisis industry. Since mid-2007, it was the number two in his capacity as Director of the Europe region, which accounts for only a good half of the 1.5 billion euros of turnover generated by the Group last year. It is therefore in this industrial flagship of Pas-de-Calais Guillaume of Fougières will have accomplished its financial molt in manager. Grow to operational functions was a wish that he had expressly formulated in his interview with Philippe Durand, Patrick Gournay's predecessor at the head of the Executive Board of the company, died in 2007. Defector from Valeo, where the current CEO, Thierry Morin, had entrusted in turn of the Swedish subsidiary, branch distribution then the motor thermal domestic finances, the ambitious "trenta" has begun in Arc, by implementing a "reporting" budgetary and financial processes, before taking the reins of the Africa-Middle East area.

He then flies with his wife and their four children to Dubai, where the Group had to proceed with the acquisition of a small glass to make his beachhead in the region. This expatriation was not made to scare him. Before even his stay in Stockholm on behalf of Valeo, Guillaume de Fougières has learned that the words of 'geographical flexibility' really meant. Born in Madagascar, where his father was framework in the Bank, it will be live until the revolution of 1975-1976 before moving further to the East, in full: Indian Ocean, on the island of Réunion. Installed in a good room in Paris after his tray, it gives some math or tennis preferably from tennis courts to finance his studies. Efforts will be rewarded by two maîtrises (one in Econometrics and other management) and the diploma of Sciences po Paris, he was released in 1988. Training that it complements three years working in an SME of cosmetics, where he learns by doing his job of Chief Financial Officer. Unilever from 1992 to 1995, then the American March a family group, such as Arc from 1995 to 1998 will complement this learning. Icing on the cake: upon arrival in Arc, Guillaume de Fougières had negotiated take in consideration the advanced management program"of the prestigious Harvard Business School. This was made on his return from Dubai.