Michel Landel
French entrepreneur
Michel Landel was born on 7 November 1951 in Meknes, Morocco. He was the CEO, director and chairman of the executive committee of Sodexo until January 2018.
Biography
After graduating from the European Business School, Michel Landel worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and then for the Poliet Group. He decided to leave the banking world and joined Sodexo in 1984 as Operations Manager for Eastern and Northern Africa.
In 1989 he was promoted to Operations Manager for the North America region. In barely ten years, he propelled the company to fourth place in the catering services market. In 1999, he managed the merger with Marriott Management Services; the resulting Sodexho Marriott Services became the world leader in its sector.
On 1 September 2005, he was promoted to CEO of Sodexo, taking over from the company’s founder, Pierre Bellon, who remained as Chairman of the group. Following the dollar's fall relative to the Euro in that year, Sodexo experienced two years of declining operating profits. Michel Landel’s strategy was therefore to diversify Sodexo’s service offer beyond catering services and to expand the group’s presence in emerging countries.
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