Jean-Marc Janaillac

Jean-Marc Janaillac was born on 26 April 1953 in Saint-Sulpice-de-Roumagnac, a village in the Dordogne department, in southwest France.

He holds a Licence in law. He graduated from HEC Paris in 1975 and the École nationale d'administration - a graduate school entrusted with the selection and initial training of senior French officials - in 1980.[2]

From 1980 to 1983, Jean-Marc Janaillac was chief of staff for the prefects of Finistère (Brittany in western France) and then Val-d'Oise (Île-de-France).[2]

From 1983 to 1984, he was head of staff for the Secretary of State for Tourism.[3]

From 1984 to 1987, he served as general manager of the French Tourist Office in New York.[3]

He then spent ten years from 1987 to 1997 as General manager of "Maison de la France", an economic interest grouping created to promote tourism in France.[3] know today as Atout France http://www.atout-france.fr

During this time span, he was also an Air France board member (from 1989 to 1994).[4]

He then joined AOM French Airlines and served from 1997 to 2000, first as executive vice-president then as chief operating officer.[3]

From 2000 to 2002, he was chairman and chief executive officer of "Maeva", a vacation residence company belonging to the Pierre & Vacances group.[3]

He then served from 2002 to 2004 as chairman of the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau.[3]

In 2004, he joined the RATP Group first as Chief officer for development then as Chairman of RATP Development.[3]

On 3 December 2012 he was made chairman and chief executive officer of Transdev and a board member of Caisse des dépôts et consignations (English: Deposits and Consignments Fund), a French financial organization and Transdev parent company.[3]

In May 2016 he was selected as the next CEO of Air France–KLM, following the resignation of Alexandre de Juniac.

The company had a good year in 2017 but a difficult first quarter in 2018 and staff and management were again locked in a dispute over pay increases starting in February 2018. Janaillac proposed a 7% wage increase over 4 years instead of the immediate 6% requested by the unions and, in order to obtain direct approval from the staff, asked for vote, warning that he would resign if his offer was rejected. He resign on 4 May 2018, after 55% of the airline’s staff rejected the offer[5]

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