Yves Carcelle (18 May 1948 – 31 August 2014) was a French businessman. He was the chairman and CEO of the

LVMH LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (), commonly known as LVMH, is a French holding multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris. The company was formed in 1987 through the merger of fashion house ...

subsidiary

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. He served from 1990 until 2012. He first joined Louis Vuitton in 1989 as a strategic director. Until his death, he was a LVMH executive committee member. Carcelle was born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. He graduated from both the

École Polytechnique École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

and INSEAD. He was an Officer of the

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, and later became a knight. In the 2010 New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an honorary

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ren ...

, for services to yachting. He was married to Rebecca and had five children. Carcelle died from kidney cancer on 31 August 2014 in Paris. He was 66.

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Yves Carcelle
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LVMH
1948 births 2014 deaths Businesspeople from Paris French chief executives Deaths from kidney cancer in France École Polytechnique alumni Honorary Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit Recipients of the Legion of Honour {{business-bio-stub