Hubert Joly
President and Chief Executive Officer
Carlson
Carlson was founded in 1938 as the Gold Bond Stamp Company. As its businesses diversified, the company changed its name to Carlson Companies in 1973, and it is now known as Carlson. Systemwide, Carlson's brands and services employ about 175,000 people in more than 150 countries.
Among the names in the Carlson family of brands and services are: Regent Hotels & Resorts®, Radisson Hotels & Resorts®, Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Country Inns & Suites By Carlson, Park Inn® hotels, T.G.I. Friday's® and Pick Up Stix® restaurants, Carlson Wagonlit Travel®, Carlson Marketing, and Peppers & Rogers Group®.
Joly previously served for more than three years as president and chief executive officer of Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). CWT is a world leader in business travel management. Under his leadership, CWT grew its sales from $8.9 billion in 2003 to $25.5 billion in 2007. He recently became chair of the CWT Board of Directors.
Joly, 48, has broad international experience. He came to CWT from Vivendi Universal, where he was a member of the executive team that led the company's recovery, serving as executive vice president with responsibility for overseeing the company's American assets. Previously, Joly was CEO of Vivendi Universal Games, the video games division of Vivendi Universal, headquartered in Los Angeles.
Before joining Vivendi, Joly worked in the technology sector from 1996 to 1999 as vice president of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Europe and president of EDS France. Prior to joining EDS, he spent 13 years in consulting with McKinsey & Company, based in San Francisco, New York, Tokyo and Paris. As a partner, he specialized in the high-tech sector.
Born and raised in France, Joly spent seven years working in the United States, including New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and has traveled extensively around the world in his diverse functions, working across geographic and cultural boundaries.
Joly is a business administration graduate of HEC Paris and a public administration graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He is a member of the supervisory board of the Aspen Institute France, a non-partisan, international forum, designed to promote the exchange of ideas on economic, social and political issues. He is also a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France and the Rezidor Hotel Group, to which he recently was appointed vice chair.
He was honored as one of the 25 Most Influential Executives of the Business Travel Industry (2006), by Business Travel News magazine. Joly was also elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (Davos, 1997-1999), a young executive of the year by L'Expansion magazine (1996), and IT CEO of the Year in France (1998).
