That important bottle provided whether drunkenness wrote Musset

"That important bottle provided whether drunkenness," wrote Musset. Thierry Dillard, on the contrary, drunkenness is entire in the bottle. That they contain the largest perfume fragrances, vodka or GI, only pills are containers in his eyes. Financial training but industrial in the soul, this incorrigible and sympathetic bavard contagious passion could talk about industry canopy for hours, referring to the growth of the Valley of the Bresle at the time of the Duchess of Montpensier and more innovations in specialty bottles business, such as internal lacquering enjoyed by fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez perfume with the same flame.

It is therefore just say that Thierry Dillard is a happy man in his new position as CEO of SGD (ex-Saint-Gobain Desjonquères), the European leader and number two worldwide in the sector. Arrived in the group in May 2007 as Chief Financial Officer, he in was left less than a year and a half later as a result of a policy disagreement with the CEO of the time (remained little time in service), Michel de Rosen. After an Eclipse of a few months, the former financier was back by the large door. "Shareholders have to listen to what I had to say", soberly indicates the new strong man of the establishment of Mers-les-Bains. A House which he heard in his younger years: his wife, Isabelle, met on the ski slopes, is the granddaughter of Luc Desjonquères, the man who otherwise founded of the least developed and long embodied the company.

The gene for the industry

Himself came from a line of industrial his great-grandfather, grandfather and his father are relayed to the standing of a Parisian printing specializes in music , Thierry Dillard had aroused a certain misunderstanding, if not more, by choosing the financial way out of CET. "It was the fashion," he explains simply. Formed in the commercial for Chase Manhattan Bank and then passed with Citibank, he sank of the happy days of Wall Street business banker when, in 1991, fell from the Sky proposal led him to leave New York for Brussels, finance for industry and "the star-system" for "team work". Become the Chief Financial Officer of the Belgian Glaverbel glass, that he had as a client as a banker, he will participate in the great adventure of privatization in Eastern Europe before changing a first time industry by joining the Lhoist group, Belgian also but specialized in lime. Then it will be Baxter Healthcare, American firm activities diversified in health, which the recruits in 1999 as Chief Financial Officer for Europe. And finally specialist animal nutrition Adisseo, worn by the explosion in demand from China, where the population, seeing their living standards improve, began at this time to eat more in addition to meat, including chicken.

Varied experiences as Thierry Dillard, a little stingy in anecdotes, evokes with its usual heat. The see place the yarn of his professional life, on the devine more interested in in the factory assembly lines by tax bundles. Fifty-five years, it was time that it abandons its purely financial to become, finally, boss functions.