Career
He is known as an owner and previous chairman of Decathlon Oxylane, the world’s largest integrated sporting goods retailer, with sales in 2013 of €7.4 billion before Value-Added Tax, which employs 60,000 people in 23 countries. He is an hotelier, designer, and owner of Olivarius hotels, a private equity investor in California, and a Montecito, California real estate investor and developer. Married on June 20, 2003 in Tournai, Belgium to Nathalie Wibaut, the couple has 3 children and lives in Montecito, California.
