Marie-Christine Lombard

Marie-Christine Lombard (born 1958) is a French business executive.[1] She was appointed CEO of Geodis in October 2012.[1] She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Keolis. Since 2008, she has chaired the Coordinating Committee of Lyon Ville Entrepreneuriat, a network supporting business, start-ups, development and transfers for the Greater Lyon region.[1]

Biography

After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in science, Marie-Christine Lombard entered the French business school ESSEC and graduated in 1981. She began her career in the United States as head of merchandising at the department stores chain Lord & Taylor.[2]

Between 1983 and 1986, Marie-Christine Lombard was in charge of the department of multinationals at Chemical Bank in New York.[3]

She then joined Paribas : first in Corporate Finance, from 1986 to 1988, and later in the M&A department (1988-1991). In 1991, Paribas appointed her Regional Delegate for international mergers and acquisitions, a position she held until 1992, and branch Deputy Director in Lyon (1991-1993).

She left Paribas and the banking sector to join TPG Group, the leading express mail, parcel and documents delivery, renamed TNT in 2005.[4] Subsequently, she became CEO (1999-2003) then Chairwoman and CEO of the subsidiary Jet Services, which became TNT Express France in 2002. In 2004, she was appointed CEO of the Express group division[4] and member of TNT Executive board. In May 2011, she took up a new position as Chairwoman and CEO of TNT Express NV,[5] a position from which she resigned in September 2012.[6]

In October 2012, she was appointed CEO of Geodis, following a proposal by Pierre Blayau, Chairman of the group.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bloomberg Businessweek, "Marie-Christine Lombard's Executive Profile"
  2. ↑ Multimodal, “All change at SNCF Geodis”, October 24th, 2012
  3. ↑ Post & Parcel, "Ex-TNT boss Marie-Christine Lombard becomes Geodis CEO", October 25th, 2012
  4. 1 2 Logistics manager, "Lombard becomes CEO at Geodis", October 24th, 2012
  5. ↑ Financial Times, "Business diary : Marie-Christine Lombard", July 4th, 2011
  6. ↑ Transport weekly, "TNT Express CEO Marie-Christine Lombard resigns", October 1st, 2012
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