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Éric de Cromières (20 November 1953 – 23 July 2020) was a French sporting executive and manager for
Michelin Michelin ( , ), in full ("General Company of the Michelin Enterprises P.L.S."), is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes '' région'' of France. It is the second largest t ...
.


Biography

Born in
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, de Cromières was the son of
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Captain Bermondet de Cromières and Eliane de Vigneral. He moved to
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at the age of 11. He discovered rugby while living in
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, and played until the age of 24 for his university's team,
HEC Paris HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...
. After he graduated, he joined the
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as an officer in
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. After his military service, he began his long career working for Michelin, starting as a sales representative in Roanne. He then worked as a sales manager and general manager until he retired from the company on 31 March 2015 after having served on the executive committee since 2005. In 2006, de Cromières became a member of the board of directors of
ASM Clermont Auvergne Association Sportive Montferrandaise Clermont Auvergne () is a French professional rugby union club from Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes that currently competes in Top 14, the top level of the French league system. Clermont are two t ...
. In 2012, René Fontès chose him to be his successor as Director of the rugby union club, and de Cromières began his term in 2013. The club became
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champions in
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. In 2017, following the conflict between the
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and the
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, the League appointed de Cromières to the Commission for Reconciliation and Dialogue to help find a way out of the crisis. The five other club presidents that accompanied him on the Commission were Mourad Boudjellal, René Bouscatel, Vincent Merling, Pierre-Yves Revol, and Alain Tingaud. In June 2017, the two groups reached an agreement on player availability for international competition, the main issue between them at the time. De Cromières was part of a committee to help maintain the relations between the two set in place from 2018 to 2023. The committee also included Didier Lacroix, Alain Gaillard, and Emmanuel Eschalier. Éric de Cromières died of cancer on 23 July 2020 at the age of 66.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cromieres, Eric de French sports executives and administrators Pieds-noirs People from Algiers HEC Paris alumni 1953 births 2020 deaths