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Hubert Joly was appointed president and chief executive officer of Carlson, a global leader in the hotel, restaurant, travel, cruise and marketing industries, in 2008. He previously served as the president and chief executive officer of Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT ), and was in that role since his appointment by the CWT Board of Directors in July 2004. CWT is a world leader in business travel management. Under his leadership, CWT has grown its sales from $ 8.9 billion in 2003 to $ 25.5 billion in 2007. CWT has 22,000 employees in more than 150 countries.
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 12 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 a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France.
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 To-Morrow 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). | 