Integrating the Hermès Empire, it is not done in a snap of the fingers. Even when it is called Axel Dumas, and we come from the sixth generation of heirs of the said family. On the program: internship and immersion with craftsmen.
You may not know his name, but you know his kingdom. Axel Dumas is the current CEO of Hermès. Coming from the sixth generation of heirs of the Hermès family, he arrived in the company in 2003, the year of the brutal death of his mother. However, he did not see himself at all at the head of the family group.
Axel Dumas gifted for “leather astitage”: the CEO had to do an internship before joining Hermès
But do not believe that his status has given him passes. To integrate the ranks of Hermès, Axel Dumas had to do a compulsory internship with the small hands of the company. “As the family tradition wants, he will do a ‘house’ internship to soak up the work of craftsmen”reported The world in 2013. And add: “Axel Dumas therefore also learns to sew. He knows how to make a card holder or a week.”
To which the 54 -year -old businessman, at the head of a luxury house which seems to face all the crises without trembling, had also added: “Even if the seam is not very straight. My strong is the astitation of the leather, pass the dye and the beeswax. “ So do not count on him to have only figures in mind, the know-how of the prestigious house, he knows him perfectly.
Axel Dumas, the discreet pdf of Hermès with an impressive course
Clearly less known than a Vincent Bolloré or a Bernard Arnault, the discreet Axel Dumas is an overdiple that has done brilliant studies. Holder of a master’s degree in law and a license in philosophy, he went through Sciences Po, which he graduated, before finally flying away for Harvard. First business banker at BNP Paribas in Beijing, where he was responsible for financed projects in raw materials, energy and transport, he then officiated in New York. He has developed industrial tools for emerging countries.
His first post in the Hermès house? Auditor with the Financial Directorate of Hermès International. Axel Dumas was then appointed France Commercial Director. He took over the management of Hermès Bijouterie in 2006, and in 2008, that of the leather goods. In 2013, he became co-manager of Hermès International alongside Patrick Thomas, then the only manager at him. Married to Élisabeth Franck, deputy editor -in -chief of the magazine Nextthe cultural monthly of Releasethe heir has three children. And today he is at the head of the second biggest fortune in France: 137.8 billion euros according to Challenges. Impressive !
