Sébastien de Montessus (born 1974) is a French businessman. He was the CEO of

Endeavour Mining Endeavour Mining is a multinational mining company that owns and operates gold mines in Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Senegal. The company is headquartered in London, England, and has cross listed on the London Stock Exchange in the United ...

from 2016 to 2024, until he was sacked following allegations of a multimillion-dollar "irregular payment". Montessus was born in Paris, and claims to have aristocratic ancestry. He earned a degree from

ESCP Business School ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consist ...

in Paris, and started a career as an investment banker.In 2002, he joined the French nuclear power company

Areva Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through the French Alternative Energies and Atom ...

, rising to head of mining and group deputy CEO. From 2012 to 2016, he was the CEO of La Mancha Group, and joined

as CEO when La Mancha effectively gained control of Endeavour in 2015.

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