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RESEAR CH + RANKINGS


M ARTINE R EYNAERS


G ABRIEL E SCARRER J AUME A LBERTO V ACC H I


MATTHIEU LECLERCQ


ROL E


COMPANY DECATHLON COUNTRY FRANCE


Leclercq is the son of Decathlon founder Michel Leclercq who opened his first sporting goods store in 1976. Matthieu transformed the business and revenues have grown in double digits over the past three years. Mathieu has served 19 cumulative years on boards, mainly as chairmen of family businesses. As such, he has had significant experience of managing generational challenges and driving change in a family business context and is a popular conference speaker. Decathlon operates in 39 countries, with 1,362 points of sale and 80,000 employees, and grew 11% with revenues of €11 billion ($13.2 billion) in 2017.


CHAIRMAN


MARTINE AND KARIN REYNAERS


ROL E


COMPANY REYNAERS ALUMINIUM COUNTRY BELGIUM


CHIEF EXECUTIVE, FACILITY AND MOBILITY DIRECTOR


Sisters Martine and Karin Reynaers took their late founding father’s business into one of the world’s key suppliers of aluminium systems for windows and doors. The breakthrough came in 1978 when Reynaers started developing the thermal break profile series Thermo System. Expansion followed, in China in 1995, then rapidly from 2004, beginning with Reynaers Middle East in Bahrain. Reynaers Aluminium, incorporating its domestic division Reynaers at Home, employs 1,700 people, has annual revenues of €360 million ($432 million) and operates in 40 countries. Martine was elected Manager of the Year in Belgium in 2004 and both steward their third generation of family members in the business.


PHOTOGRAPHY: MELIÁ HOTELS INTERNATIONAL, ROPI, SODEXO, REYNAERS ALUMINIUM


ALBERTO VACCHI ROL E


COMPANY THE IMA GROUP COUNTRY ITALY


CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE


The Vacchi family bought 52% of Industria Macchine Automatiche (IMA), a designer and manufacturer of automatic machines for the processing, in 1963. Alberto Vacchi, son of honorary chairman Marco Vacchi, was appointed managing director of IMA Group in 1996 and chairman since 2007, while also serving as chairman on boards inside and outside the group. In 2017, he was elected president of Confindustria Emilia for the first two years. Revenue for 2017 was €1.4 billion ($1.68 billion), up from €1.3 billion in 2016.


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