Pierre-Yves Roussel (born November 7, 1965) is CEO of Tory Burch LLC, a role he assumed in 2019. He was previously the chairman and chief executive officer of

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Fashion Group and a member of the LVMH Executive Committee before moving into an advisory role at the luxury conglomerate in 2018.

Early life and education

Roussel was born in

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, France. He graduated from

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with a degree in Economics. He has a postgraduate degree from Brussels University (Solvay Business School), which he earned during the time he worked at

Crédit Commercial de France The ''Crédit Commercial de France'' (CCF, "Commercial Credit ompanyof France") is a commercial bank in France, founded in 1894 as the ''Banque Suisse et Française'' and renamed to CCF in 1917. By the end of the 1920s, it had grown to be the six ...

in Brussels. Roussel has an MBA from Wharton Business School – University of Pennsylvania.

Career

He began his career as a

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, now known as

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after obtaining an MBA from

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, he joined the consulting firm

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, where he had increasing responsibilities (France, New York, Hong Kong, Japan) before being elected partner in 1998, and then senior partner in 2004. In 2004, Roussel joined the

Executive Committee as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Operations. In 2006, he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH Fashion Group, which includes

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, Loewe,

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, and J. W. Anderson. Pierre-Yves Roussel successfully repositioned and developed several fashion houses within LVMH by appointing and collaborating with very talented Artistic Directors:

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, Carol Lim and

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, J. W. Anderson at Loewe and, in 2015, Dao Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne at

Memberships

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Fashion Award: Jury member * The Business of Fashion: Board member * CFDA Fashion Incubator: Jury Member * Fédération Française de la Couture, du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode: Board member *

Prize: Jury member

Personal life

Roussel has three children from his first marriage. In January 2016, it was announced that Roussel is engaged to fashion designer

Tory Burch Tory Burch (née Robinson; born June 17, 1966) is an American fashion designer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She is the Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of her own brand, Tory Burch LLC. She was listed as the 88th most powerfu ...

, whom he had been dating since June 2014, and married in 2018.

References

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