René-Pierre Azria is a French businessman and philanthropist.

Personal life

Azria holds an M.B.A. degree (magna cum laude) from

École des Hautes Études Commerciales HEC Paris (french: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a business school, and one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, located in Jouy-en-Josas, France. HEC offers Master in Management, MSc International Fi ...

(France), a Bachelor of Mathematics from University of Paris-Jussieu and an International Management Degree from

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degrees in management and finance, MBA and PhD). Its motto is " ...

and the Stern Graduate School of

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. In 1993, he married fiction writer Maria Alexis Winter.

Business

René-Pierre Azria has been Managing Director of the Blackstone- Indosuez joint-venture and President of Financière Indosuez Inc. in

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. He joined

N M Rothschild & Sons Rothschild & Co is a multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services company, and the flagship of the Rothschild banking group controlled by the French and British branches of the Rothschild family. The banking business o ...

worldwide (head of the Technology Media Telecom practice of Rothschild in the

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) in 1996 as Global Partner. During this time, he supervised the takeover of Luxxotica on Oakley. Since 2008, Azria is the founder and CEO of the

advisory firm Tegris LLC, a private investment bank.

Honors

Herbert Lehman Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American Democratic Party politician from New York. He served from 1933 until 1942 as the 45th governor of New York and represented New York State in the U.S. Senate from 1949 ...

Prize of the

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(2010)René-Pierre Azria, banquier philanthrope
'' Les Echos'', June 23rd, 2010.

References

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