Renaud Dutreil

Who is Renaud Dutreil?

Renaud Dutreil, President & CEO of Belleville Solutions Inc. is a graduate of the Institut des Etudes Poltitiques de Paris, École Normale Superieure, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales and École Nationale d'Administration in Paris. He is Laureat of the Concours General de Philosophie.

Mr. Dutreil served in the highest offices of French government for over fifteen years prior to his joining LVMH North America in 2008. His ministerial appointments included Minister of Small & Medium-Sized Businesses, Commerce, Crafts and Liberal Professions, Minister of the Civil Service and State Reform and Secretary of State for Small & Medium-Sized Businesses, Commerce, Crafts and Liberal Professions. He was a Member of Parliament from 1994-2008 and of the French Council of State from 1989 to 1992. Prior to his political career, he was Maître des Requêtes au Conseil d’Etat, where he was admitted in 1989 with rank 1st.

In 2002, he was the first President and founder of the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire, one of the two main political parties in France.

As Minister in the French cabinet, he is known for the “Dutreil Acts”, which have modernized the French tax system, the distribution system, the professional education system and encouraged a pro-entrepreneurial culture and environment in France. In 2004, he has founded the “Entreprises du Patrimoine Vivant”, a network of 600 French companies, including Hermes, Dior, Chanel and others, which define themselves as cultural actors as well as industrial and distribution companies. This network was a unique initiative to combine public and private efforts, small and large public companies, to establish France as a highly recognized producer of “cultural goods”.