People: PPR SA (PRTP.PA)

Mr. Jean-Michel Noir is a Member of the Executive Committee of PPR SA and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Redcats as of April 2009. Since 2000, he had been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Vivarte Group. Chairman and CEO of La Halle aux Vetements from 2000 to 2007, he had been Managing Director of Operations of the Vivarte Group since April 2007. Mr. Noir holds a degree from the ESCP and an MBA from the INSEAD. He began his career in 1991, working for the Clinvest Bank in the M&A sector, in London and Paris. He then joined McKinsey, where he conducted several strategy missions in the retail sector, between 1995 and 2000. He was also appointed Chairman of La Redoute.