Hugh Quennec

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Hugues "Hugh" Quennec (born June 28, 1965 in Montreal , Canada ) is a Canadian sports official who formerly presided over the football club Servette FC Genève and the ice hockey club Genève-Servette HC in Switzerland .

Career

Quennec was born to a Swiss mother from Freiburg im Üechtland and a French father from Brittany in Montreal in the Canadian province of Québec . During his youth he played soccer, ice hockey, golf, tennis and windsurfing. He studied electrical engineering and from 1990 worked for KPMG , which sent him to Geneva in 1995 . In Switzerland he founded his own finance company called Continental Capital Market in early 1998.

Servette FC Genève

When the traditional Geneva club Servette FC Genève was close to the second bankruptcy after 2005 in early 2012, Hugh Quennec stepped in and, although he was already president of the Genève-Servette HC ice hockey club , also took over the football club. He bought the club for a symbolic franc and began to turn things around. He found donors and through his efforts the bankruptcy of Servette FC could be averted. In the 2012/13 season you could even take part in the qualifying round for the UEFA Europa League , but rose as bottom of the Super League (Switzerland) in the second division ( Challenge League ). However, due to the lease of the Stade de Genève , among other things , considerable costs had to be covered. In June 2015, the club was not granted a Challenge League license and was relegated to the third division. At that time, Servette had liabilities of around five million francs. In June 2015, Quennec gave its club shares to the "Fondation 1890" group and resigned from the presidency. Quennec said it had invested 15 million francs in the club since 2012.

Genève-Servette HC

Before he took over the helm at the Geneva football club, Hugh Quennec was already a co-owner of the Geneva ice hockey club: in 2005, together with Chris McSorley, he took over the shares of the Anschutz Group in Genève-Servette HC and took office in 2006. In 2014 McSorley sold his shares in Quennec, which became the sole owner of the ice hockey club. Quennec won, among others, the Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko and through this contact the Gunvor group as sponsors for Servette.

At the end of January 2018, Quennec resigned as president of the now financially troubled Genève-Servette Hockey Club, having previously given his shares in the club to the "Fondation 1890" foundation. "With my departure I want to save the club," said Quennec on the occasion of his withdrawal. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung accused him that his “worst misconduct” was to have provided McSorley with a well-endowed long-term contract, according to the NZZ there is “probably no other such absurd document in world sport”.

Lausanne HC

Quennec also held a majority stake in Lausanne HC between 2007 and 2016 , although that was never officially confirmed for years. Quennec only admitted this in December 2015. Since a rule change emerged in the National League A , according to which a person could not be the majority owner of several NLA clubs, he sold his shares in the LHC to the American Ken Stickney, who was previously Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EHC Kloten , in February 2016 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geneva ice hockey president helps Servette . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . August 3, 2012, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  2. ^ Hugues Quennec - Founder - Sport 4 Life. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2017 ; accessed on March 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sport-for-life.ch
  3. ^ Hugh Quennec, un patron discret . In: tdg.ch/ . ( tdg.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  4. ↑ The successful networker Hugh Quennec wants to save the shaky Servette FC: "We are in the same family" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 10, 2012, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Article in the "Blick" newspaper from March 8, 2012
  6. ↑ President Hugh Quennec Finds Investors: Servette FC on the Brink of Rescue . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 8, 2012, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  7. ^ A b Daniel Germann: After the withdrawal at Lausanne HC: The world of Hugh Quennec . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 21, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Peter M. Birrer: Servette stumbles and fears . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . May 4, 2015, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Servette has to relegate to the first division . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . January 1, 2015, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  10. ↑ From Martin Arn: President Quennec Goes: Servette Is Saved . ( blick.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  11. ↑ www.20minutes.ch, 20 Minutes, 20 Min.ch: Hugh Quennec: “J'ai mis 15 millions pour Servette” . In: 20 minutes . ( 20min.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  12. ↑ www.gshc.ch, GSHC - Site officiel du Genève-Servette Hockey Club: Historique - Genève-Servette Hockey Club. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (French).
  13. ↑ Emil Bischofberger sports editor @ bischofberger: Servettes autocrat downgraded . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Gerald Hosp, Jean-Pierre Kapp: Secretive commodity billionaire Timchenko talking: "I have been successful, as Putin still vice mayor was" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 16, 2013, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Philippe ReichenKorrespondent @ PhilippeReichen: Timtschenkos remain patrons even after US sanctions . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . May 4, 2014, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
  16. ↑ https://www.langenthalertagblatt.ch/sport/hockey/hugh-quennec-gibt-ein-amt-ab/story/31559990
  17. ↑ Nicola Berger: The next disempowerment of Chris McSorley is also the last | NZZ. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Samuel Burgener: Economically, HC Lausanne belongs in the National League A - but is it also ready for it in terms of sport ?: Patient in the waiting room . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 9, 2012, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed March 31, 2017]).
  19. ↑ Hugh Quennec a répondu . In: Le Matin . December 21, 2015, ISSN  1018-3736 ( lematin.ch [accessed March 31, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Switzerland as the 11th province of Canada . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . February 18, 2016 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed March 31, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Quennec, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quennec, Hugues (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey and soccer official
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Canada