Rémy GOMEZ
Chairman & CEO, BPI-Beauté Prestige International
Frenchman Rémy GOMEZ was born in December 1952. Having graduated from the ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales), he started his career in 1970 in an “atypical” manner as a professional dancer and assistant stage director. In 1978 he joined the PROCTER & GAMBLE Group, where he was the Associate Marketing Director for France during 13 years. He then became the Marketing Director for Italy and subsequently the President and General Manager in Germany for the Health & Beauty Division, as well as the European Coordinator for Skincare and Cosmetics. From 1992 to 1994 he was the General Manager of RoC SA (Skincare and Dermo-Cosmetics) in the LVMH Group. For five years starting from 1995, he was the President of HERMES PARFUMS. Since 2000 he has run the SHISEIDO Group as President and CEO of BEAUTE PRESTIGE INTERNATIONAL (Issey Miyake, Jean Paul Gaultier, Narciso Rodriguez and Elie Saab perfumes). Rémy GOMEZ is passionate about opera, art and philosophy. He plays the hunting horn. He follows a lifestyle that allows him to be free and decide what to do with his time as much as possible, while staying true to values such as ethics, imagination and happiness.