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JE A N- C L A UDE BI V ER


JEAN-CLAUDE BIVER ROL E


COMPANY TAG HEUER COUNTRY SWITZERLAND


CHIEF EXECUTIVE


JEAN-LUC BÉLINGARD


ROL E


COMPANY BIOMÉRIEUX COUNTRY FRANCE


Having served his apprenticeship at Audemars Piguet in the 1970s, the 68-year-old Biver rescued Blancpain, Omega and Hublot before Bernard Arnault promoted him to LVMH watch division president and tasked him with saving TAG Heuer and Zenith. Biver is credited with helping to rescue the Swiss luxury watch industry from the “quartz crisis” of the 1970s and pioneered celebrity endorsements and product placements. He targets new generations of watch consumers and embraces disrupters such as the Apple Watch. TAG Heuer contributed greatly to the Watch & Jewellery business group at LVMH in 2017, making a 12% profit year-on-year profit to €512 million ($629 million).


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Bélingard was chief of this world leader of in vitro diagnostics since 2010 until he was succeeded in December 2017 by family next gen Alexandre Mérieux, his deputy chief executive of three years. Bélingard remains on the bioMérieux board as a director and continues as vice president of Institut Mérieux. Working alongside patriarch Alain Mérieux, chairman of Institut Mérieux and founding chairman of bioMérieux, Bélingard is now responsible for strategy and institutional relations. He oversaw €2.3 billion ($2.76 billion) in sales in 2017, 10.2% growth on 2016 and slightly outperforming the objective of 9% to 10%.


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