A young big man discreet, even a little shy. Is no shows of award to the wrist or some other external signs of wealth. No more expensive Recreation: neither the fishing on a yacht or Flash in private jet travel. Just a few transects at the FNAC to provide fiction and DVD, to meet a cinéphagie that he has little time to satisfy in obscure rooms... And weekends completely dedicated to her two toddlers, a four-year-old girl and a seven-month-old boy. See and hear Alexandre Mérieux, it would not have case the heir of one of the wealthiest of France, but a boy similar to those his age - he is thirty-five years - with the same concerns, the same pleasures and (almost) the same train of life: "We reinvest in our business," said the holder with his father Alain 68 of the Institut Mérieux (ex-Merieux Alliance), the holding her hair the Silliker, Transgene and bioMérieux, the flagship companies, world number one of the diagnosis in vitro.
Since the untimely demise of his brothers Rodolphe, killed in the crash of flight TWA800 in 1996, and Christophe, dazzled by a heart attack in 2006, it is him, benjamin, which now embodies the succession in the Lyon dynasty. Great-grandson of the founder Marcel, Alexandre worked for ten years in the family group, where he now has responsibilities.
Since 2005, his main home port is the Industrial Microbiology unit which are designed and marketed solutions for microbiological controls that need industrial agri-food and pharmacy, an activity that represents good an evil year 15 of the overall turnover of bioMérieux.
Team spirit
Unity has just moved into a new building in Marcy-L'Etoile, in the West lyonnais. On this occasion, all employees are passed in "open space". The young Director, who made no exception to the rule, does not ignore that this new scheme is not everyone's taste: "now is me hate!", he says laughing. The subject of early humor drills quickly.
This operational role, Alexandre Mérieux added caps of administrator of bioMérieux since 2004 and Director General delegate since last year. Involved by his father in all the major decisions affecting the life of the group, the heir does not seek to make the shadow to the Director General, Stéphane Bancel, who was only two years older than him. "He was found in throttles." I am part of his management team. "Same reaction when it evokes his last function to date, at the head of the investment company Merieux development newly created to detect and accompany innovative in the diagnosis, prevention, therapy projects, etc.:"I am the President, but there is a General Director with me and a small team of collaborators, who have already started the work."
This posture very "low profile" - the phrase is of him - it was already when he started the group in 1999, the Silliker marketing department in Chicago. Trained in the business at HEC Montreal after having tried (without great conviction) of biology at the University Lyon-I, the "son of the boss" had joined the subsidiary specializing in security and control of food quality with the idea that he was "to learn". Ten years later, is still his State of mind.
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