Appointment of Michel Strauss as Senior Director in the Fine Art Field.Business Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2000 LVMH LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton (upscale retailer) , the world's leading luxury group, is pleased to announce that it has hired Michel J. Strauss as a Senior Director to advise its President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Mr Bernard Arnault Bernard Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French businessman. He is the 7th richest person in the world and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars, according to a Forbes report in March 2007. , on art related matters. Leaving the auction world after 39 years, Mr Strauss will be joining LVMH at the beginning of next year. Mr Strauss has spent his entire career at Sotheby's in London, where he has risen to his present position as Co-Chairman, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Department world-wide. He is the grandson of Jules Strauss, a famous early collector of impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to who lived in Paris. Mr Strauss said: "I am tremendously excited to join LVMH, and very much looking forward to starting in the new year. I will be working closely with Bernard Arnault, helping him to develop his many interests in the fine art field, in a manner commensurate with the formidable reputation of LVMH for quality." Commenting on Mr Strauss' hiring, Mr Bernard Arnault said: "We are delighted to have Michel Strauss Michel Strauss (born 1951, Paris) is a French cellist. Strauss was educated by Paul Tortelier and Maurice Gaudron at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won first prizes in cello and in chamber music, before continuing his studies at Yale University with Aldo Parisot. join us in the next few weeks. He brings truly unparalleled art expertise to LVMH, and is the leading expert in the art market today in the field of impressionist and modern painting." |
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