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ALUMNI
50 à suivre en 2018
HASSANEIN HIRIDJEE (97), HUMANIST BUILDER
CEO AXIAN GROUP

has been investing in Madagascar for 15
years. When I come back to Madagascar
at the end of my studies at ESCP Europe,
the family business focused on car dealerships and import export, two business
sectors that don't look very promising to
me. As a consequence, I chose to create
my fi rst company - First Immo. I invested
then in Jovenna in 2004, an oil distribution company, and afterwards in Electric
power on Madagascar because the "red"
island has significant needs in the Energy
sector. And so on, and so forth for all the
sectors in which Axian developed until
today: banking, financial and telecom services... I took risks, especially financially
speaking, to invest in new sectors and I
worked assiduously to prove my worth in
the family, which decided to give me the
leadership in 2008.

What makes you proud?

Could you introduce yourself?
I'm a madagascan entrepreneur. My family

I am very proud of the impact Axian has
today on the micro and macro-economical

level. In the Indian Ocean and especially
in Madagascar, each home each home
benefits from the actions of the group:
electricity, phone lines, Internet and banking services... On the Malgasy and Indian
Ocean Islands'scale, Axian contributes
to create value and to the developing of
the amazing economical potential of the
region, investing in the structuring sectors
for the economy and development.

What is your dream?
To succeed in my bet of a w inning
Madagascar, with less than 10% of the
population living below the poverty line
(today it represents 91% of the population).
The Malgasy Island contains vast potentials, and is at the same time the biggest
and largest Idian Ocean's island in terms
of population. It is well suited to act as a
"driving engine" to the regional development. We have been working on that for
150 years. We can believe in it, nothing is
impossible.
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PATRICE LOUVET (86)
LA MODE FRANCO-AMÉRICAINE
CEO AND BORD MEMBER DE RALPH LAUREN

Né en France, Patrice LOUVET (86), a grandi entre son pays natal et les États-Unis : à sa
sortie de l'ESCP, il complète sa formation par un MBA à University of Illinois. Sa carrière
démarre en 1989 chez Procter & Gamble où pendant plus de 20 ans, ses différentes
fonctions lui permettent de travailler sur 3 continents différents (Europe, Amérique du
Nord et Asie) principalement dans la branche beauté de l'entreprise. En 2015, il prend la
tête de la branche 'Global Beauty'de P&G, une division comptant 12 marques.
Patrice Louvet s'est vu désigné en mai dernier à la direction du groupe Ralph Lauren pour
remplacer le suédois Stefan Larson. En prenant les rênes de l'une des marques de mode
américaine les plus emblématiques, le franco-américain entend redonner du prestige à
cette marque.

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