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Appointed President of CHANDON in July 2023, Arnaud shares CHANDON’s unwavering commitment to excellence in its wines and hospitality and looks forward to steering the house through an exciting time of growth across its five domaines worldwide, in Argentina, California, Brazil, Australia, and China.
After a degree in Business and Marketing and a Masters in Innovation, Design and Luxury, he started his professional journey at Moët Hennessy in New York in 1995. Thus began an international career in marketing and management positions in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. His global, multidisciplinary background and his sensitivity to cultural diversity made him a natural candidate for CHANDON and he joined the Maison in 2017. The move dovetailed with his own personal passions for food, wine, and hospitality. Energy, determination, and dauntless enthusiasm are his watchwords. Crafting exquisite luxury products and experiences from diverse terroirs and cultures, with their inherent unpredictability, is a challenge whose appeal he has always understood.
Thinking creatively about the meaning of luxury defined his own progression to the CHANDON table, and the innovative international sparkling-wine brand has itself, he believes, played an important part in redefining contemporary luxury.
‘CHANDON is a very inclusive and collaborative Maison with more than 800 employees spanning four continents,’ he says. ‘I am convinced that crafting exceptional sparkling wines with our diverse community of winemakers is both of unlimited value and a source of collective intelligence. Everyone is welcome at our table; we are about spontaneity, conviviality, togetherness. These are human qualities that we crave now more than ever. Luxury today is less about ownership and more about experience. I am convinced we play a role opening a world of possibilities for sparkling wine lovers.’
