Serge Weinberg

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Serge Weinberg (born February 10, 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French entrepreneur. He is President of Weinberg Capital Partners .

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His father was Sammy Weinberg, who founded the Maison Weinberg company in 1946 (women's clothing), his mother Nicole Liss.

Serge Weinberg holds a law degree and a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . He studied at the École nationale d'administration (ENA) (graduating class 1976).

During his career (1976-1981), which he began as sub-prefect, he was installed in various posts. He was then head of the office of the then budget minister Laurent Fabius (1981–1982), after which he switched to business and became (1982–83) CFO of France 3 . From 1983 to 1987 Weinberg was first general manager, then president of Havas Tourisme , at that time a branch of the Havas group , from 1987 to 1990 general manager of Pallas Finances , a subsidiary of Banque Pallas .

In 1990 he went to the family company Pinault and became president of the Compagnie française de l'Afrique occidentale . He then acted from 1991 to 1995 as President of Rexel , a subsidiary of the Pinault-Printemps-Redoute group , then from 1995 to 2005 as CEO.

In 2005, Weinberg founded Weinberg Capital Partners , an asset management company that manages a number of corporate and real estate investment funds, and two years later he founded Weinberg Real Estate .

Serge Weinberg was also CEO of Accor , Managing Director of Schneider Electric , Fnac and Gucci . He is also a member of the Commission économique de la Nation and various not-for-profit associations. He resigned from the Accor Management Board in February 2009.

Serge Weinberg has been President of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi since May 2010 , then also temporarily President of the General Management until October 2014 as successor to Chris Viehbacher.

Weinberg was a member of the Commission pour la liberation de la croissance française (Growth Commission), also known as the Attali Commission, which presented its report to the President of the Republic on January 23, 2008.

In April 2007 he was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honor .

Weinberg married Nicole Benarrosh on June 4, 1976, and they have two daughters. He has been married to Félicité Herzog since November 2013, and two daughters also come from this marriage.

Others

Serge Weinberg is a founding member of and sponsor of the Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière (ICM) (about: Institute for Research on the Brain and Spinal Cord). In 2005 he founded the Institut Télémaque , which aims to support children with good performance in secondary schools.

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  • Under the pseudonym "Serge Vignemont" (Vignemont French for vineyard) together with Baudouin Prot and Michel de Rosen: Armée-Nation, le rendez-vous manqué , Presse Univ. de France, Paris 1975.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Bruna Basini and Géraldine Meignan: Les réseaux de Serge Weinberg , in: L'Express of March 1, 2005, accessed on September 25, 2012.
  2. ^ Sanofi-Aventis: Serge Weinberg va remplacer Jean-François Dehecq in: La Tribune of May 17, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2012.
  3. ^ Article by Rémy Maucourt: Serge Weinberg, nouveau patron de Sanofi-Aventis , in: Usine Nouvelle of May 17, 2010, accessed on September 25, 2012.
  4. ↑ Le patron de Sanofi débarqué in Le Monde of October 29, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Weinberg, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vignemont, Serge (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt