Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Olivier Goudet is an independent Board member. Born in 1964, he is a French citizen, holds a degree in Engineering from l’Ecole Centrale de Paris and graduated from the ESSEC Business School in Paris with a major in Finance.

Olivier is Partner and CEO of JAB Holding Company, LLC, a position he has held since June 2012. He started his professional career in 1990 at Mars, Inc., serving on the finance team of the French business.

After six years, he left Mars to join the VALEO Group, where he held several senior executive positions, including CFO.

In 1998 he returned to Mars, where he became Chief Financial Officer in 2004. In 2008, his role was broadened to become the Executive Vice President as well as CFO. Between June 2012 and November 2015 he served as an Advisor to the Board of Mars.

Olivier is also a Board member of Jacobs Douwe Egberts, the world’s leading pure play coffee and tea company; Chairman of Peet’s Coffee & Tea, a premier specialty coffee and tea company and of Caribou Einstein, a premium coffee and bagel restaurant chain; a Board member of Coty Inc., a global leader in beauty; a Board member of Espresso House Baresso, the largest branded coffee shop chains in Scandinavia; and a Board member of Jimmy Choo PLC, a luxury leather goods company.