FRANCE. Pernod Ricard has today announced a number of changes in its management team.
Martin Riley, currently Marketing Director of Chivas Brothers, will join the Pernod Ricard holding company in Paris as Chief Marketing Officer, with effect from 1 February. He will replace Jean-Paul Richard, who is retiring after 35 years at Pernod Ricard.
Riley, 54, will report to Thierry Billot, Pernod Ricard Deputy Managing Director in charge of Brands.
Eric Benoist, Marketing Director at Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët, is appointed as Marketing Director of Chivas Brothers, replacing Riley. He will take up his new position on 1 February. Benoist will report to Christian Porta, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Chivas Brothers, and will be a member of the Management Committee.
Anne-Claire Rodary, Senior Marketing Category Director at Pernod Ricard, will replace Eric Benoist as Marketing Director of Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët, with effect from the same date. She will report to Lionel Breton, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët and will be a member of the Management Committee.
After starting his career at Sandeman in Marketing for six years, Riley joined successively James Burroughs plc and Whitbread for the next six years. In 1990 he became Marketing Vice President of Allied Domecq until 1997 when he moved to the Pernod Ricard Group at Irish Distillers Limited, as International Sales & Marketing Director. In 2002 he was appointed International Marketing Director of Chivas Brothers.
Benoist, 45, joined the group in 1993 as Marketing Manager Non Alcoholic Drinks at Pernod Ricard Holding. In 1997 he was appointed Marketing Director of Pernod Ricard Asia and in 2000 became President and CEO of Pernod Ricard Japan. He then moved to France in 2003 taking up the position of Marketing Director Martell. Since 2005, he has been Marketing Director Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët.
After starting her marketing career at Procter & Gamble, Rodary joined the Danone Group where she held various executive positions in marketing and purchasing, before becoming International Marketing Director of the Danone Waters division. In 2002, she moved to Guilbert (PPR Group) as Marketing & Purchase Director before joining, in 2003, the Allied Domecq Spirits & Wines Group at Champagne Mumm Perrier Jouët, as Marketing Commercial & Communication Director. At the time of the acquisition by Pernod Ricard Group in 2005, she became Senior Marketing Category Director.
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