Frédéric Jousset

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Frédéric Jousset
Jousset in 2015
Born (1970-05-03) 3 May 1970 (age 54)
EducationHEC Paris
Occupation(s)Co-President, Webhelp

Frédéric Jousset (born 3 May 1970) is a French entrepreneur and philanthropist.[1] He is the founder and co-chairman of Webhelp, a business outsourcing company headquartered in France. He is also the administrator of the Musée du Louvre as of December 2016.

Life[edit]

Jousset is the son to Marie-Laure Jousset, Chief Curator at Beaubourg,[2] and Hubert Jousset, President of the GEFIP and the École normale de musique. Jousset graduated from HEC in 1992.

Jousset began his career in 1994 for Kérastase[3] at L'Oréal. Four years later, he founded his first company, Clientis SA, a software publisher for beauty salons. He joined the American strategy consulting firm Bain & Company where he worked as a strategy consultant.[4]

In June 2000, he co-founded with Olivier Duha Webhelp SA, which originally offered IT support services and later expanded into operating call centres and outsourcing business services.[5] The group had 55,000 employees and had a turnover of 1.45 billion euros as of 2019.[6]

In 2012, Jousset was awarded the Mercury of Honour for Business Creation at HEC and, along with Olivier Duha, he was elected Manager of the Year in 2013 by the Nouvel Economiste/Financial Times.[7]

Art, culture and patronage[edit]

Jousset was chairman of the board of directors of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris between 2011 and 2014. He was a member of the Acquisitions Commission of the Musée du Louvre from 2007 to 2014.[8] Webhelp contributed to the acquisition of La Fuite en Egypte, by Nicolas Poussin. As a result of these different forms of support, he was a member of the Louvre's patronage council and was awarded the distinction of grand patron of the museum.[9] In May 2016, he bought Beaux Arts Magazine for 5 million euros to invest in its development[10] including digital technology, training and events.[11]

In December 2016, Jousset was appointed administrator of the Musée du Louvre by decree of the Minister of Culture.

In 2018, the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen entrusted him with the steering of the working group linked to the culture pass for young people.[12]

Jousset obtained a 50-year concession for the Relais de Chambord hotel located opposite the Château de Chambord. He called upon the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte for the complete renovation. The hotel reopened in March 2018 with 55 rooms, suites and a gourmet restaurant.[13]

He has been administrator of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs since July 2019.[14]

In December 2019, Jousset created the ART EXPLORA fund with a capital of 6 million euros to finance actions aimed at reducing the cultural divide in Europe and supporting artistic creation. He launched the annual ART EXPLORA prize endowed with 150,000 euros in collaboration with the Académie des Beaux arts to reward the most innovative European museums in their search for new audiences.[15] In the UK, the foundation financed a 10-week mobile museum program with the Tate.[16]

Associations[edit]

Jousset is chairman of the association of the 55,000 alumni from the HEC group, and as such is a director of the HEC group.[17]

He is a member of Croissance Plus, of which Olivier Duha was chairman from 2011 to 2013, the Founders Forum and the association le Siècle.

Honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Frédéric Jousset, the Businessman Bringing Culture to the People". France-Amérique. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Frédéric Jousset, l'art d'entreprendre". Les Echos (in French). 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Frédéric Jousset, l'art d'entreprendre". Les Echos (in French). 29 June 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  4. ^ "ENTREPRENEURS PASSIONNES". relationclientmag.fr/ (in French). December 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. ^ à 07h00, Le 11 juillet 2010 (11 July 2010). "Frédéric Jousset : "Nous continuons à créer des emplois en France"". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "WEBHELP - De la start-up au géant mondial de la relation client". Groupe Turenne (in French). 31 January 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Olivier Duha et Frédéric Jousset,"Managers de l'année"". Le nouvel Economiste (in French). 19 December 2013. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Frédéric Jousset ou l'amour de l'art". Les Echos (in French). 26 July 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Frédéric Jousset nommé président du conseil d'administration de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts". Connaissance des Arts (in French). 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Frédéric Jousset nommé président du conseil d'administration de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts". Connaissance des Arts (in French). 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Beaux Arts Magazine change de mains". Les Echos (in French). 9 May 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  12. ^ "Frédéric Jousset, l'homme qui conduit le Pass culture". 30 June 2018.
  13. ^ "Univers. La renaissance du Relais de Chambord". Point de Vue (in French). 1 May 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Frédéric Jousset - Nominations au Journal officiel de la République française". jorfsearch.steinertriples.fr. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Avec Art Explora, Frédéric Jousset veut apporter la culture à tous les publics". Les Echos (in French). 4 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  16. ^ Brown, Mark (22 February 2023). "Fostering curiosity: the Tate brings great art to the people of Merseyside". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  17. ^ "Gouvernance | HEC Alumni". hecalumni.fr (in French). Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  18. ^ "Le co-fondateur de Webhelp acquiert Beaux Arts Magazine pour 5 M€". Capital Finance (in French). 10 May 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  19. ^ https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/sites/default/files/promotion/lh20190101.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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