Denis Machuel (born 19 April 1964) is a French business executive. He is currently the CEO of

Sodexo Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It has 412,088 employees as of 2021, operates in 55 countries and serves 100 million custome ...

, a multinational food service and facilities management company.

Early life

Born in 1964 in

Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne. Founded by ...

, Machuel receives an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from the

École nationale_supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble The École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées, or Ensimag, is a prestigious French Grande École located in Grenoble, France. Ensimag is part of the ''Institut polytechnique de Grenoble'' (Grenoble INP). The sch ...

College of Engineering in

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, France. He also holds a master's degree from

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

Career

Machuel began his career at Schneider Electric in Egypt, before becoming a consultant at Dassault Electronique. In 1991, he joined

Altran ALTRAN (ALgebraic TRANslator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients. It was developed at Bell Labs in 1960s. ALTRAN is a FORTRAN version of ALPAK rational algebra ...

as a consultant. He spent 16 years with the company, becoming the CEO of Altran Technologies UK Royaume-Uni, before leading the company's global offshoring activity. He joined

in 2007 and became CEO of the company's Benefits & Rewards Services entity and member of the company's executive committee in 2014. In 2017, he was appointed deputy CEO and chief digital officer. He became CEO of the Sodexo group, replacing

Michel Landel Michel Landel was born on 7 November 1951 in Meknes, Morocco. He was the CEO, Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sodexo until January 2018. Biography After graduating from the European Business School, Michel Landel worked for C ...

, in January 2018. In May 2022,

the Adecco Group The Adecco Group, is a Swiss-French company based in Zurich, Switzerland, and is the world's second largest Human Resources provider and temporary staffing firm, and a Fortune Global 500 company. They directly employ 700,000 people a day, an ...

announced that it has recruited Machuel as a CEO of the group. On 1 July 2022, he will replace

Alain Dehaze Alain Dehaze (born 1963) is a Belgian business executive who is no longer serving as the CEO of The Adecco Group. Having previously worked as the Adecco Regional Chief for Northern Europe and France, he joined The Adecco Group in September 2015. ...

References

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