Frédéric Jousset
Frédéric Jousset (born 3 May 1970) is a French businessman and philanthropist. He is co-founder and co-president of Webhelp, a global business process outsourcing company headquartered in France. Since December 2016 he has served on the board of the Louvre Museum.[1]
Biography
Jousset was born to Marie-Laure Jousset, chief curator at the Centre Pompidou, and Hubert Jousset, president of GEFIP and the École normale de musique de Paris. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1992.[2]
He began his career in 1994 at Kérastase for L’Oréal. Four years later he founded Clientis SA, a software publisher for beauty salons. He then joined the US strategy consultancy Bain & Company as a strategic consultant.[3]
In June 2000 he co-founded Webhelp with Olivier Duha. Originally focused on IT support services, the company expanded into call centers and customer experience outsourcing. By 2019 Webhelp employed 55,000 people and generated revenues of €1.45 billion.[4]
In 2012 Jousset received the HEC Entrepreneurs’ Mercury of Honor for Business Creation and, with Olivier Duha, was named Manager of the Year 2013 by Le Nouvel Économiste and the Financial Times.[5]
Since July 2019 he has been a board member of the École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs.[6]
References
- ↑ Frédéric Jousset, l’art effréné des affaires, Le Monde, 26 December 2021
- ↑ Frédéric Jousset (H.92) : L’art des affaires, HEC Stories
- ↑ Frédéric Jousset: “Avant de vouloir monter une grande entreprise, il faut accepter d’en monter une petite”, Bpifrance, 2015
- ↑ Omniprésent dans la culture, l’entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset épate la galerie, Journal du Dimanche / Financial Times, 2020
- ↑ Frédéric Jousset : « Je veux élargir les publics de la culture », Le Monde, 22 October 2020
- ↑ Frédéric Jousset, entrepreneur mécène : “La culture, c’est du temps long qui exige du capital patient”, L’Echo, 2019