He was eventually soon to resume of the stripe

Would God without confession: brilliant; worker; affable; of a serenity foolproof; humble, to refuse a management driver. Then a portrait, you don't think not! In any case now, is it said, the project just mentioned. Decidedly, Jacques Stern, since little general manager delegate of Accor, has many small power. And, yet, the now number two official it was already for many observers from hospitality and services prepaid, securities which it had already supported the finance, strategy, the development of hotels and information systems, might almost as older in the highest rank. The approach of his forty-five years, that he will celebrate on September 19, a graduate of the ESC Lille has almost seventeen years of home at the counter. After having worked as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers for four years, he indeed joined Accor late 1992 as Director of the consolidation, before climbing the last floors of a not alert.

He takes the financial officer in January 2003 and to the Executive Board, then cap the company, in March 2005. A few months later, Jacques Stern is the only top leader to escape the brutal change of direction, the first to bear the costs was Jean-Marc Espalioux, Chairman of the Board since 1997. In early 2006, the man Finance of Accor is therefore always first online in a new and wide team concocted by Gilles Pélisson. He was eventually soon to resume of the stripe. Jean-Marc Espalioux already wanted to do his number two, it will be that of Gilles Pélisson...

Not the sort to push pass

Jacques Stern, which is not the type to push pass, has a method to him: it combines brio in the operational, which earned him the confidence of the financial community and especially of the reference shareholder, the Colony Capital-Eurazeo duo, and Sioux caution! To the applicant for an "off" appointment to Exchange freely journalist, replied: "No problem." See the Director of the communication... "But the fact is that its success is undeniable and undisputed. "He deserves the place entirely", summarizes, among others, former member of the Executive Board and figure of the group, Benjamin Cohen, who long had the upper hand over finance. "In a little round appearance, it has its character," slip in passing to break the image of a placid Jacques Stern. "He knows to be hard between four eyes, but it is deeply right", complete a former collaborator, "love it as a patron" and believes "on the reserve because that timid".

If simple step. If Jacques Stern maintains "a network of people with a common vision" of Accor, he firmly rejects have the spirit of family. Large bosseur, he hesitates not cut his mobile phone recharging or make room in its agenda "armoured" to go skiing with his wife and two children or doing a eighteen holes. "Diva" or monk-soldier, he likes driving large cars... discrete and confesses a weakness for the Hermès neckties.

Become a super-numéro perhaps two, Jacques Stern has not finished to surprise. "It is at the crossroads", is a connoisseur of the character and House Accor, which questioned his desire to want more.