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Nicolas Japy

 
Group COO - Sodexho Alliance
 
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Company Name : Sodexho Alliance
 
Company Website : www.sodexousa.com
 
Company Address : 9801 Washingtonian Blvd.
, Gaithersburg, MD,
United States,
 
Nicolas Japy Profile :
Group COO - Sodexho Alliance
 
Nicolas Japy Biography :

Nicolas Japy is President, Universal Sodexho, Remote Site Management and a member of the Group Operational Committee. He successfully restructured and built up the subsidiary's teams, making Universal Sodexho the world's second-largest remote site management company. Today it has more than 24,000 employees and close to €600 million in revenues.

Nicolas started his career in 1982 as an oil consultant for Beicip Inc., a consulting and multiclient studies subsidiary of Institut Français du Pétrole. He then worked for the regional airline TAT before being hired by Air Vendée as Managing Director.

One day in 1991, while reading a newspaper on an Air Inter flight, he saw an advertisement for a job vacancy at Sodexho. He had not only the requisite qualifications management experience, knowledge of Africa, practice with trade unions and government negotiations but also the additional advantage of being well acquainted with the oil industry. He got the job, joining the Group as Director Congo. Two years later he was posted to Saudi Arabia, where he restored the subsidiary to good health. In 1997, he was promoted to Director Africa, with the mission of driving growth in countries experiencing difficulties.

To pursue other goals and gain experience in an English-speaking environment, he left the Group in early 1998, accepting a job to manage Club Méditerranée’s US operations. In 2001, just when Club Méditerranée called him back to France, Sodexho offered him the job of President, Universal Sodexho. He rejoined the company, "attracted by the Group's corporate culture and management team." He took up his new position in October.

Since then Nicolas has redefined Universal Sodexho strategy and united team members around shared Group values, using "profitable growth" as his watchword. His next challenges include organizing a centralized sales unit, setting up a team of technical experts, designating priority regions, penetrating new countries and establishing an international unit in charge of partnerships and lobbying.

Convinced that Sodexho has a leading role to play in developing the local economy in its host countries, he created a sustainable development unit to support clients in this area and improve the quality of life for the local population, with a focus on transparency and the long term.

Born in 1956, Nicolas is married and has four children. With a grandfather who was a fighter pilot and a great uncle who established the first Paris-Saigon air link, Nicolas is not surprisingly a commercial aviation enthusiast. He has a large collection of original airliner photos and dreams of publishing an encyclopedia of airline liveries. He had to give up golf for lack of time, but during vacations he and his family enjoy traveling and hiking in the mountains.

 
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Elisabeth Carpentier

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Pierre Henry

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Sian Herbert-Jones

Group CFO Please login

Philip Jansen

Group COO Please login

Michel Landel

Group CEO, Pres. - Sodexo Stop Hunger Association Please login


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