Barbara Martin Coppola

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Barbara Martin Coppola
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Education Polytechnic University of Madrid
Télécom Paris
INSEAD (MBA)
Occupation Chief Executive Officer of Decathlon Group (March 2022 – March 2025)
Awards Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite (2023)

Barbara Martin Coppola is a French, Spanish and American business executive. She is the former chief executive officer of the Decathlon Group.

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Biography

Coppola graduated from Polytechnic University of Madrid and Télécom Paris in 1999. [1] She also holds an MBA from INSEAD. [2] [3]

Career

Early career

After her studies, Coppola started her career at Texas Instruments, where she worked as a business development manager from 1999 to 2004. [1] Later, from 2005 to 2008, she was the Chief Digital Officer at Samsung in Seoul. [1] In 2008, she worked at Google in France. [1] [4] She also has previous work experience as a global product marketing manager at YouTube and a Chief Marketing Officer for US meal delivery specialist GrubHub. [5] [6]

Ikea

In April 2018, Coppola became the Chief Digital Officer of the Group Ikea. [7] [8]

Decathlon

In January 2022, Coppola became the chief executive officer of the Group Decathlon. [6] [5] She is the first woman to run the Group and the first female manager to be recruited from outside the Group Decathlon. [1] [7] She served as CEO from March 2022 until March 2025. [9]

Awards

In September 2023, she won the Women's Excellence Award from the Spanish Women's Leaders Club. [10] [11] She was ranked 61st on Fortune 's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. [12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Conso, L. S. A. (8 December 2022). "Distributeur non alimentaire : Barbara Martin Coppola, un profil hors du sérail pour le Decathlon de demain". LSA. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  2. ↑ "Barbara Martin Coppola". Women Tech. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Google France". Le Point. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Nouvelle directrice générale chez Decathlon". Le Figaro. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Decathlon recrute une spécialiste du digital chez Ikea pour diriger son groupe". Les Echos. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  6. 1 2 "Barbara Martin Coppola, ex-Ikea et Google, prend le guidon chez Decathlon". Le Figaro. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Lidl, Action, Amazon… Qui sont les patrons de vos enseignes préférées ?". Yahoo!. 20 September 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  8. ↑ Stackpole, Thomas (4 June 2021). "Inside IKEA's Digital Transformation". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  9. ↑ Björklund, Mattias. "Decathlon has a new CEO". Sporting Goods Intelligence. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "La montée en puissance des dirigeantes espagnoles". Challenges. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "La Société générale annonce plusieurs changements dans ses équipes". Le Figaro. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Most Powerful Women". Fortune.
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