Jacques-Henri Eyraud

Jacques-Henri Eyraud comes from a family of teachers. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris (class of 1989), Dauphine (Master 2 in telecommunications and new media management, 1990) and Harvard Business School (Master of Business Administration, 1998). At the age of 22, he did his military service as a press attaché for the Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Service during the Gulf War.

He joined Euro Disney as spokesman in 1991, six months before the opening of Disneyland Paris, then presented as Europe's "greatest project". He became the group's communications director.

Encouraged by Disney's CEO Steve Burke (now CEO of NBCUniversal), he entered Harvard at the end of 1996 to pursue an MBA. These two years spent on the Boston campus instigated his entrepreneurial spirit.

Upon his return, he became Director of New Products at Club Med under the direction of Philippe Bourguignon, one of his Disney mentors.

In 2000, he founded Sporever with Patrick Chêne. Two months before the bursting of the internet bubble, he raised $10 million. The company became the European leader in digital sports information, being the first to broadcast live football matches on mobile phones. In 2005, the startup was listed on Alternext and generated 13.5 million euros revenues. In 2009, he became chairman and chief executive officer of Turf Éditions, a media group dedicated to horse racing, for which he undertakes the digital transformation.

In 2016, he left his position to devote himself to Marseille presidency.