The governance of the Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group is structured around two main bodies: the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board.
The Supervisory Board oversees the Group’s strategic orientations and has a power of control. It is composed of the Louis-Dreyfus family members, including President Philippe Louis-Dreyfus. The Executive Board is composed of four members and is chaired by Edouard Louis-Dreyfus.
President of the Supervisory Board
President of the Supervisory Board
In 1974, after having acquired a shipping experience in London and Oslo, Philippe LOUIS-DREYFUS joined Banque Louis Dreyfus where he created a specialized shipping finance department. In 1986, he left his family group to go and work with Banque Pallas France, in charge of the business and corporate division.
In 1994, he became President of Credit Naval.
In 1996, he returned to his family business to take the responsibility of LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS, of which, together with his children, he finally took over 100 % control.
Philippe Louis-Dreyfus was elected President of Armateurs de France (2002-2004), the French Ship-owners‘ Association of which he is Vice-President, and also President of ECSA, the European Community Ship-owners’ Association (2006-2009) of which he remains Vice-President. He was also the President of BIMCO from 2015 to 2017. Furthermore, he is a French Foreign Trade Advisor (CNCCEF) and an Administrator of Institut Curie as well as Administrator and Vice-President of Medef International.
Active sport man, Philippe Louis-Dreyfus has been a French Team Champion in squash and selected at National University level in Rugby. He also served two years in the French Army as an Airborne Cavalry Officer.
Among other distinctions, Philippe Louis-Dreyfus is Commandeur of the Légion d’Honneur and Officer of the British Empire (OBE).
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board
Charlotte LEZIUS-DONCEL began her career in M&A at HSBC in London. In 1999, she joined LDCom/Neuf Cegetel in Corporate Development.
Charlotte has a master’s degree in finance from Paris-Dauphine and a post-graduate degree (DESS) in business finance from Université Panthéon-Assas.
Currently based in Madrid, she co-founded Stags Participations in 2011 and is a member of PACEMAR’s Supervisory Board.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board
Freelance stylist from 2005 to 2008, Marie LOUIS-DREYFUS is currently working in the Design sector.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Special Advisor to the President of the Supervisory Board
Alain LE GUILLARD joined LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS in 1976. In 1988, he became master mariner for the LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS fleet.
In 1992, he joined the Paris-based headquarters and took the position of Technical Fleet Manager.
In 1999, he was appointed Fleet General Manager of the LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS Group and became a member of the Executive Committee since 2000.
Alain Le Guillard was Chief Operating Officer in charge of Operations of the group from 2007 to 2010. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in charge of Operations in July 2010 and Advisor to the President of the Executive Board in September 2016. He represents the LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS Group at North of England P&I Club and the Strike Club.
Alain Le Guillard is “Chevalier du Mérite Maritime” and “Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite”.
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board
A graduate of HEC, Frank PIEDELIEVRE, joined Bureau Veritas in 1996 as Vice President and General Manager, before he became Chairman of the Executive Board three years later.
In June 2009 he became Chief Executive Officer.
Since July 2015, he assists Philippe LOUIS-DREYFUS as Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PACEMAR.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board
Coming from the Ecole Polytechnique (Promotion of 1983) Ecole Nationale des ponts et chaussées, Jacques VEYRAT joined the LOUIS DREYFUS Group in 1995 and became the General Manager of LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS in 1996.
He created LD Com in 1998, renamed NEUF Telecom in 2004, then NEUF CEGETEL in 2005, which he left in April 2008 when SFR was sold. From May 2008 to April 2011, he chaired the LOUIS DREYFUS Group.
He is today President of IMPALA SAS.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board
Sébastien FLOC’H is a graduate of the ESSCA Business School of Management and started his career in 2000 as a financial auditor with audit group Mazars, in Paris.
In 2004, he started to work for Hewlett Packard as a Financial Practices Manager. In 2006, Sébastien Floc’h joined the Roullier Group as a Project Manager, reporting to the President of the Supervisory Board.
In 2008, he was appointed Managing Director in charge of Marine Technology and in 2010, Managing Director in charge of Agri-food and Marine Technology. In 2014, he became Director of Mergers & Acquisitions and Institutional Relations.
Sébastien Floc’h joined LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS Group in 2016 as Deputy CEO, in charge of Strategy and Development. He became a member of the Supervisory Board of LDA Group in 2019.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Member of the Supervisory Board
Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux was born in 1962, married and has 4 children.
He was President of Medef from 2018 to 2023 and has an entrepreneurial career.
Professional activities: After graduating from ESSEC and obtaining a DESS from Dauphine in 1984, he joined the Special Forces (Commandos Marine) for his national service, taking part in operations in Africa and Lebanon. He is now a reserve naval captain. Then he joined the L’OREAL group for 10 years, where he held a few positions in France and abroad, including Marketing Director in the UK and Managing Director in Poland.
In 1996, he founded THE PHONE HOUSE, the first chain of stores dedicated exclusively to mobile phones. A year later, he acquired a stake in the UK group CARPHONE WAREHOUSE. In 2000, this group listed in London and took control of THE PHONE HOUSE. He was appointed Managing Director from 2000 to 2004, with responsibility for the company’s European development.
In 2004, he founded OMEA TELECOM, which launched BREIZH MOBILE, the first alternative mobile operator (MVNO). In 2006, he convinced the VIRGIN group to invest in this project and create VIRGIN MOBILE. In 2008, OMEA acquired Télé 2 mobile. In 2014, Numéricâble acquired OMEA TELECOM, which directly or indirectly employs almost 1,000 people and has 1.8 million customers.*
In January 2015, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux created NOTUS TECHNOLOGIES, where he is now the founder and chairman. The NOTUS group generates sales of 60M and employs 250 people in the agri-food (Oliviers & Co, Le fondant Baulois) and outdoor sectors.
Other activities: Director of Parrot, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Peugeot SA from 2007 to 2019, director and/or investor in IMS, Seloger.com, Micromania, Budget Télécom and Nocibé. In 2009, together with P. Kosciusko-Morizet and S. Treppoz, ISAI, a 150M investment fund for French internet and mobile start-ups, which was the first investor in BlaBlaCar in 2010. Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux is a member of the Board of Directors of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee and of the France2023 public interest group, which is responsible for organizing the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.
Other commitments: Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux was Vice-Chairman and then Chairman of Croissance Plus, the association of high-growth companies, from 2003 to 2008. He was also a member of the Commission pour la libération de la croissance française (Attali Commission – 2007/2008). Vice-chairman and chairman of Unedic from 2008 to 2012, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux was deputy vice-chairman and treasurer of MEDEF from 2013 to 2018, in charge of the Economy division.
In July 2018, he was elected President of the MEDEF, a position he left on 17 July 2023.
In 2005, in collaboration with his wife, he set up a charitable foundation, the FARAOK Foundation (“forward” in Breton), under the aegis of the “Fondation de France”, that provides financial support for humanitarian associations.
President of the Executive Board
President of the Executive Board
Born in 1974 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Edouard Louis-Dreyfus is a graduate of the University of Paris X Nanterre (Law and English diplomas) and of the French Business School of Rouen (ESC). He started his career at Texaco in London as a trader in liquid gas and refined products. In 2002, he joined the Louis Dreyfus Group in London as a trader in sugar and coffee.
His maritime career started in 2004 when he joined the shipping division of the Group in Paris.
In 2006, he took charge of the capesize desk of LD Bulk, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs specialised in bulk transportation. His family acquired Louis Dreyfus Armateurs in 2007. Edouard Louis-Dreyfus became a member of the Executive Committee and Vice-President of the Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group in 2009. He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer Business in July 2010.
On 1st July 2015, Edouard Louis-Dreyfus became President of the Louis Dreyfus Armateurs Group and President of the Executive Board of Pacemar, the Group’s holding company.
Edouard Louis-Dreyfus is also:
– Member of the UK P&I Club Board of Directors since 2013
-Member of the Shipowners Insurance & Guaranty Company (SIGCo) Board of Directors since 2020
-Young Leader of the France-Asia Foundation since 2020
-Auditor of the 74th Defence Policy session of the French Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN) in 2022
Edouard Louis-Dreyfus played rugby at national level for CASG club and SCUF and for regional selection. Hunting and tennis are among his other hobbies.
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Kamil BEFFA has been the Chief Executive Officer of Louis Dreyfus Armateurs since January 2022, having joined the Group in 2019 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
Beginning his career as a drilling engineer for Total, later he worked as a consultant for McKinsey from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, Kamil BEFFA joined the construction materials company Lafarge, where he held various responsibilities, including as General Manager of subsidiaries (in Serbia and China) and Senior Vice President in charge of projects and functions (supply chain, distribution). He joined CGG in 2014 as EVP Global Operational Excellence, then Nexans in 2016 as EVP, with operational and functional responsibilities in Europe (metallurgy, strategy, finance, country management).
Kamil BEFFA is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, holding a master’s degree in Economics from EHESS. He is proficient in around ten foreign languages.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Antoine Person graduated from Science Po Paris and la Sorbonne college where he majored in econometrics. He has spent his whole career within the LDA group. He joined the organisation in 1999 in the dry bulk department as Head of Chartering for South Asia. He was then appointed General Secretary in 2003.
In January 2022, he became Deputy Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive board.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Financial Officer
Antoine d’Anjou has joined us on 6 April 2021 as our Chief Financial Officer.
He spent most of his career at TECHNIP and SYSTRA where he held various financial positions.
As of January 1 2022, Antoine d´Anjou is appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer and member of the Executive Board.
Advisor
Advisor to the Chairman of the Executive Board
Graduating from the Paris IX Dauphine University (Masters degree in Management – with specialisation in Finance), Gildas Maire joined the LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS Group in 1990 as Head of the LD Group consolidation department in London. In 1995, he managed the Group’s energy department (LD Energy) for the French and Belgian markets.
He then joined the maritime branch of the group and after being appointed finance and administration director of LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS (LDA), he became member of the executive committee in 2002.
In 2006, he has been appointed chief operating officer finance and administration of the LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS Group. He is chief executive officer, finance & administration since July 1st, 2010.
Gildas Maire has been elected president of Armateurs de France (the French Shipowners’ Association) in April 2015 and is still chairman of its EcoFi Committee since 2011. He is also a member of BIMCO Technical Committee that works for the implementation of a single financial documentation for the profession.
Gildas Maire is ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite’ and was made ‘Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur’ by Presidential Decree of 31/12/2019.
As of January 2022, he withdraws from operational activities and becomes Advisor to the Chairman of the Executive Board, Edouard Louis-Dreyfus. He will focus on strategic asset management.
