Director of Bouygues
Chairman and CEO and director of PPR

Date of birth: 28/05/1962

Education and career

François-Henri Pinault is a graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC). He has spent his whole career within the PPR group.

He was CEO of France Bois Industries from 1989 to 1990 and was appointed Chairman and CEO of Pinault Distribution in 1991. In 1993, he became Chairman of CFAO.

He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fnac in 1997, then executive vice-president of the PPR group and subsequently head of Internet activities and Chairman of the supervisory board of PPR-Interactive from 2000 to 2001.

Since 1998, François-Henri Pinault has been a director, and since 2003 Chairman of the Board of Directors of Artémis.

In March 2005, he became Chairman of the executive board and then Chairman and CEO of PPR. 

François-Henri Pinault is a member of the Bouygues Board of Directors.

François-Henri Pinault is a member of the Ethics and Sponsorship Committee at Bouygues and a member of the Selection Committee at Bouygues.

• Date of first appointment: Director of Bouygues since 22 December 1998
• Expiry date of current term of office: 2013
• Number of shares in the company: 500 (at 31/12/10)

Other positions and functions outside the Group

Managing partner of Financière Pinault; Chairman and director of Artémis; Chairman of the supervisory board of Puma; Chairman and member of the supervisory board of Gucci Group NV; Vice-Chairman and member of the supervisory board of Boucheron Holding; Director of Fnac SA, Soft Computing and Sapardis; member of the supervisory board of Yves Saint-Laurent SAS; member of the management board of SC du Vignoble Château Latour; board member of Christies International Plc.; Vice-Chairman and director of Sowind group; Vice-Chairman of the supervisory board of CFAO.

(Updated: August 2011) 

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