french businessman

Jean-Michel Antoine Aulas ( hold 22 March 1949 ) [ 2 ] is a french businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Cegid ( Compagnie Européenne de Gestion par l’Informatique Décentralisée ) and serves as the owner and president of the united states of French football golf club Olympique Lyonnais which he has owned since 1987. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Since January 2020, Aulas is besides the chair of OL Reign. Aulas was the last president of the esteemed G-14 until it disbanded in January 2008 and besides presently serves on the board of European Club Association for his golf club. [ 5 ] In 2018, his internet deserving was estimated at €600 million. [ 6 ]

Olympique Lyonnais [edit ]

On 15 June 1987, Aulas took control condition of Olympique Lyonnais and invested in the golf club with the objective of turning Lyon into an established Ligue 1 side. His ambitious plan, titled OL – Europe, was designed to develop the club on the European flush and back into the inaugural division within a time-frame of no more than four years. After ridding the club of its debt, Aulas restructured the cabaret ‘s management and reorganized the finances and, in a span of two decades, transformed the club from a irregular division team into one of the richest football clubs in the earth. Under Aulas ‘s leadership, Lyon won their first ever Ligue 1 championship in 2002 and promptly started a national-record streak of seven consecutive titles. Lyon have besides won one Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue title each, ampere well as a record six Trophée des Champions titles. The club have appeared in the UEFA Champions League eleven times under Aulas, reaching the semi-finals of the competition twice, in the 2009/10 and 2019-20 seasons. After establishing Lyon as a rival in french football, Aulas adopted a strategy which allowed the club to acquire many of the top players of other clubs in Ligue 1. After excelling at the cabaret, the president would then sell the players for exorbitant fees to clubs abroad. His building complex expressive style of negociate has led to the successful transfers of many former Lyon players such as Michael Essien, Mahamadou Diarra, Karim Benzema, Florent Malouda, Eric Abidal, and Tiago Mendes with all the players departing the golf club for transfer fees angstrom humble as €15 million ( Tiago ) and adenine high as €38 million ( Essien ). On the negative side, Aulas has been lambasted for, according to critics, running the club as if it were a business. The club presently operates on the European Stock Exchange under the name OL Groupe, initialed OLG. [ 7 ] In April 2008, business magazine Forbes ranked Lyon as the thirteenth most valuable football team in the populace. The cartridge holder valued the cabaret at $ 408 million ( €368 molarity ), excluding debt. [ 8 ] On 12 February 2009, accountants Deloitte released their annual Deloitte Football Money League. In the reputation, Lyon were rated in the twelfth descry, reportedly bringing in an annual gross of €155.7 million for the 2007–08 season, which ranks among the world ‘s best football clubs in terms of gross .

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