Marie-Christine Lombard

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Marie-Christine Lombard (born 1958) is a French business executive. [1] She was appointed CEO of Geodis in October 2012. [1] She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Keolis. Since 2008, she also has been chairing the Coordinating Committee of Lyon Ville Entrepreneuriat, a network supporting business, start-ups, development and transfers for the Greater Lyon region. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in science, Lombard entered the French business school ESSEC and graduated in 1981. [3]

Career

Lombard began her career in the United States as head of merchandising at the department stores chain Lord & Taylor. [4]

Between 1983 and 1986, Lombard was in charge of the department of multinationals at Chemical Bank in New York. [5]

Lombard then joined Paribas: first in Corporate Finance, from 1986 to 1988, and later in the M&A department (1988-1991). In 1991, Paribas appointed her Regional Delegate for international mergers and acquisitions, a position she held until 1992, and branch Deputy Director in Lyon (1991-1993).

Lombard left Paribas and the banking sector to join TPG Group, the leading express mail, parcel and documents delivery, renamed TNT in 2005. [6] Subsequently, she became CEO (1999-2003) then Chairwoman and CEO of the subsidiary Jet Services, which became TNT Express France in 2002. In 2004, she was appointed CEO of the Express group division [6] and member of TNT Executive board. In May 2011, she took up a new position as Chairwoman and CEO of TNT Express NV, [7] a position from which she resigned in September 2012. [8]

In October 2012, Lombard was appointed CEO of Geodis, following a proposal by Pierre Blayau, Chairman of the group. In December 2013, she was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Geodis.

Other activities

Honors

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bloomberg Businessweek, "Marie-Christine Lombard's Executive Profile"
  2. ↑ "Marie-Christine Lombard". SNCF (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  3. ↑ "Marie-Christine Lombard Chairman/CEO, Geodis". Bloomberg L.P. 2021-08-23.
  4. ↑ Multimodal, “All change at SNCF Geodis”, 24 October 2012
  5. ↑ Post & Parcel, "Ex-TNT boss Marie-Christine Lombard becomes Geodis CEO", 25 October 2012
  6. 1 2 Logistics manager, "Lombard becomes CEO at Geodis", 24 October 2012
  7. ↑ Financial Times, "Business diary : Marie-Christine Lombard", 4 July 2011
  8. ↑ Transport weekly, "TNT Express CEO Marie-Christine Lombard resigns", 1 October 2012
  9. ↑ Board of Directors: Marie-Christine Lombard Vinci.
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