Background
Landel, Michel was born in 1951.
food service and management company executive
Landel, Michel was born in 1951.
Master of Business Administration, European Business School, Paris. Student, France, United Kingdom, Germany.
He is the current Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Sodexo. After graduating from the European Business School, Michel Landel worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and then for the Poliet Group. He decided to leave the banking world and joined Sodexo in 1984 as Operations Manager for Eastern and Northern Africa.
In 1989 he was promoted to Operations Manager for the North America region.
In barely ten years, he propelled the company to fourth place in the catering services market. In 1999, he managed the merger with Marriott Management Services.
The resulting Sodexho Marriott Services became the world leader in its sector. Following the dollar"s fall relative to the Euro in that year, Sodexo experienced two years of declining operating profits.
Michel Landel’s strategy was therefore to diversify Sodexo’s service offer beyond catering services and to expand the group’s presence in emerging countries.
In 2012, he explained "While food services rose by an average of 3.5%, other services grew by 7.8% and their share increased from 18% to 25% of sales in four years." He has also initiated a number of actions aimed at contributing to the economic and social development of countries where Sodexo operates. These include STOP Hunger, a programme fighting hunger and malnutrition, which is active in 42 countries. Michel Landel is married and has three children.
Married; 3 children.
