Biography of Alexandre Ricard

Alexandre RICARD


Managing Director, Distribution Network

Alexandre Ricard, ESCP Business School and the Wharton University of Pennsylvania (MA in International Studies and MBA in Finance Entrepreneurship), joins the Group in 2003 as Audit & Business Development Manager of Pernod Ricard Holding Finance Direction and becomes, at the end of 2004, Finance and Administration Director of Irish Distillers. I

In 2006, he is appointed Managing Director of Pernod Ricard Asia Duty Free. 

In  2008, he becomes Chairman & CEO of Irish Distillers.

As of 1st September 2011, he joined the Group General Management team, as Managing Director, Distribution Network.



- 1975: merger of the Pernod and Ricard companies
- 18,000 employees in more than 70 countries worldwide
- 107 production plants