Biography of Alexandre Ricard

Alexandre RICARD


Chairman & CEO Irish Distillers

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

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

Since 1 July 2008, he is Chairman & CEO of Irish Distillers.



- 1975: merger of the Pernod and Ricard companies
- 19,000 employees in more than 70 countries worldwide
- 113 production plants