Pierre Bellon is the Chairman and founder of Sodexho Alliance, the worldwide leader in the food service industry.

Created in 1966 in Marseille, Sodexho has become, in forty years, under his direction, an independent group of 324,000 employees, located across five continents.

 

On September 1, 2005, Pierre Bellon stepped down as CEO but kept his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Sodexho Alliance has been listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since 1983 and was listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2002.

 

Pierre Bellon is an Officer of the Légion d’Honneur, Commander of the Ordre National du Mérite and of the Brazilian order of Rio Branco and a Knight of Mérite Agricole.

 

He was a member of the Conseil Economique et Social from 1969 to 1979.

 

The former president of the National du Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants d’Entreprises, in 1986, Pierre Bellon founded the Association Progrès du Management. He was also Vice-Chairman of Medef from 1981 to 2005.