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Extreme Sailing Series is here – the sailing team is obviously here – it’s a better place than Geneva! But the management side of things will be based in Switzerland because Rémi lives there and I live near there in Chamonix.” Mark Turner is executive chairman of the new company and Rémi Duchemin the CEO. “It sounds a bit grandiose for a very small company,” says Mark. “But it does explain the set up. Rémi is in charge and will be progressively across the whole business – it’ll take us a little while probably because we’re pretty busy launching new products and things at the moment. I need not to be that operational; there are so many different aspects of the business that I’ve had to let go of the operational side.
Creative “It’s a good step for me, not only to be on the more creative side – new projects, new products – but at the moment I’d say that Rémi and I are joint CEOs. It will take us about a year before we have sorted our roles out. Which is fi ne.” The Group’s sailing events division, OC
Events, will continue to be a leading force in the sport of professional sailing as organisers of the Extreme Sailing Series, co-creators
and consultants to the Barcelona World Race, owners of The Transat single-handed transatlantic race, and organisers, on behalf of Artemis Investment Management, of The Artemis Challenge. Offshore Challenges, the sailing team division, will continue putting together effective racing campaigns, in the IMOCA circuit (most recently with Artemis Ocean Racing and BT Team Ellen), with Extreme 40s, and with the development of the Artemis Offshore Academy. OC Group also remains strategic and technical consultant to the Oman Sail project, which uses sailing to contribute to the development of Oman and Omanis, which OC helped create and develop in 2007. OC also continues to advise and work with other brands in sailing, such as, Nespresso with the Nespresso Cup. OC Vision, the Group’s digital agency, continues to provide fi rst- class supporting marketing services to both its own projects and those of key clients. OC Group also recently announced a strategic partnership with Yellowbrick for the operational delivery of its OCTracker yacht tracking service.
All these good things coming from sailing,
and yet one can never help thinking that Mark Turner, veteran of the Whitbread, ex- naval offi cer and all, sort of doesn’t really like
Below: Artemis Figaro 66
Above: Rémi Duchemin
18 cywinter 2011
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