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Nationality : French

Jacques de Chateauvieux graduated from the Paris Institut Supérieur de Gestion in 1972. 

He also gained an MBA from the University of Columbia in New York in 1974.

Jacques de Chateauvieux (1951) began his career as a Management Controller for the Union des Transports Aériens (U.T.A) in Paris from 1975 to 1977.

For the next 3 years he was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group in Paris, a corporate strategy and management consultancy.

 

• + Professional experience :

In 1979, when he was 28, he became Chairman of the Réunion-based BOURBON Group with the intention of developing the sugar industry in La Réunion.
Over the years, Jacques de Chateauvieux transformed the Group into a listed conglomerate and successfully positioned it initially as a major player in distribution and then in marine services on an international scale.
From 2001, he led the gradual re-centering from the Group’s historic activities to marine services. By June 2005, the Group was totally focused on marine services and became BOURBON.

Based on his attraction for shipping, Jacques de Chateauvieux, through his investment company Jaccar, developed and invested in new businesses beside BOURBON mostly in the shipping sector such as Sinopacific shipbuilding group, a core private shipbuilder in China today, Piriou shipbuilding and ship repairing group that is successfully going international, Sapmer a modern industrial fishing company. As of today, maritime related stakes represent over 80% of Jaccar’s portfolio. 

 

Nationality : Vietnamese

 

- Doctorate in Finance – Université Dauphine - France 

- HEC Jouy en Josas – France

- Université de Sciences économiques de HCM Ville

 

 

- 2006 - 2010 General Manager of JACCAR

- 2002 - 2006   Finance Manager –  BIG C chain stores in Vietnam  

- 1998 - 2002 Chief accountant of Espace Bourbon An Lac (BIG C)

- 1996 - 1998 Chief Accountant of  Prezioso 

Member of the Board of Directors of :

- Bourbon

- Jaccar Holdings 

- Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group (China)

- Long Hau (Vietnam)

- Viet Au (Vietnam)

- Hiep Phuoc (Vietnam)

- Hoang Anh Gia Lai (Vietnam)

- Agrex Saigon (Vietnam)

- SEAS (Vietnam)

- Bourbon An Hoa (Vietnam)

- Ien Quang (Vietnam)

- Mylan (Vietnam)

 

 

Nationality : Chinese-American

 

- MS University of Wisconsin - Madison

- BS University of Wisconsin - Madison

- PhD Northwestern University

- MS Concordia University, Wisconsin

- BS Concordia University, Wisconsin

 

Founder and Partner Manager of Cathaya Funds

Founder of VideOnline Inc.

Director of Asia Pacific Medical Group

Former Director of interWAVE Communications International, Ltd.

Chairman and Member of Compensation Committee of ZAP

Vice Chairman and Principal of China Broadband, Inc.