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Jacques Du Puy

Member of the Management Board, President of CANAL+ International

Biography

Experience

Jacques du Puy has been President of CANAL+ International since January 2013. He has been a member of the Management Board of the CANAL+ group since 2016.

Jacques du Puy has been with the CANAL+ group for 12 years, joining the company in November 2012. Before joining the CANAL+ group, Jacques du Puy held several high-profile positions across the globe. From 2011 to 2012, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Vetoquinol, a veterinary pharmaceutical laboratory. Before that, he was a Member of the Global Executive Committee of Bayer CropScience and CEO of Europe, Africa and Middle East from 2002 to 2011. From 1998 until 2002, he served as CEO of Rhône-Poulenc Agro Japan then CEO of Aventis CropScience Japan and Korea following the merger between Rhône-Poulenc and Hoechst. His career began in the early 1980s with Rhône Poulenc Agro, where he held various high-level international positions, notably as CEO of India and subsequently Japan.

He is a graduate of AgroParis Tech and Panthéon - Sorbonne University.

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