Gilles Pélisson is an ESSEC graduate with an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has held several senior executive positions with the ACCOR Group. He was general manager, then CEO of Euro Disney. He then joined Groupe Suez as president of the Suez-Telefonica ST3G consortium as well as president of Noos, a cable network. He became CEO of Bouygues Telecom in 2004, which he left in January 2006 to head the Accor Management Board.