2024 universal registration document

2. Corporate governance

Alexandre Ricard

Age: 52

French

Expiry date of term of office: 2025

Committee Member:

  • Strategy and Sustainability Committee
  • Human Resources and Remuneration Committee

Alexandre Ricard has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pernod Ricard since February 2015. He joined Pernod Ricard in 2003 after seven years as a strategy consultant at Accenture and as an M&A consultant at Morgan Stanley. In 2004, he was appointed Director of Finance and Administration of Irish Distillers, and then in 2006, Chief Executive Officer of Pernod Ricard Asia Duty Free. In 2008, he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Irish Distillers and joined the Executive Committee of Pernod Ricard. In 2011, he joined Pernod Ricard's General Management as Managing Director in charge of the Distribution Network, before being appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 2012.

Alexandre Ricard has been a Director of L’Oréal since 2021.

  • Business address: Pernod Ricard - 5, cours Paul Ricard - 75008 Paris - France
  • Holds 500 L’Oréal shares
Main corporate office held outside L’Oréal
Pernod Ricard* Deputy Chief Executive Office
Other corporate offices and directorships held
French company  
Martell & Co SAPR Director
Société Paul Ricard Director
Le Delos Invest I Director
Le Delos Invest II Director
Foreign companies  
Suntory Allied Limited (Japan)PR Chairman
Geo G. Sandeman Sons & Co. Ltd (United Kingdom)PR Director
Havana Club International SA (Cuba)PR Member of the Board of Directors (Junta de Accionistas)
Bendor SA (Luxembourg) Director
Corporate offices and directorships held over the last five years that have expired   Expiry date of term of office
French companies
Pernod Ricard Europe, Middle East and AfricaPR Member of the Supervisory Committee 2023
Skills related to L’Oréal’s strategy and development objectives
  • Experience of General Management
  • International profile
  • Knowledge of consumers
  • Financial expertise
  • Digital/New Technologies/Retail/E‑Commerce
  • HR/employee relations
  • ESG including Governance and Development of an ESG strategy for an international group