Who is the CEO of CMA CGM? – Biography
Rodolphe Saadé is a businessman from France and Lebanon. He is the son of the founder of the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in logistics transport.
How old is Rodolphe Saadé? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 3 March 2022. He was born in 1970 in Lebanon.
Rodolphe Saadé Family
He is the son of Jacques Saadé. Naila Saadé (née Salem), his Lebanese mother, was born in Beirut and is the sister of Farid Salem, co-founder of CMA CGM.
Rodolphe Saadé House
His home is private, there are no photos or details given about his home.
Rodolphe Saadé Career
After studying business at Concordia University in Montreal, he founded Dynamic Concept, a water cooler company in Lebanon. As President and CEO of this distribution company, he gains his first international trade experience in Lebanon and Syria.
He put his experience to good use by working for his father’s CMA CGM Group, which he joined in 1994. He began his career in New York and Hong Kong before returning to the Group’s headquarters in Marseille, where he assumed increasingly important responsibilities between 1997 and 2004.
Rodolphe Saadé was the Director of the United States – Mediterranean – Far East – Northern Europe and Far East – Northern Europe – United States West Coast lines from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he was appointed Director of the Transatlantic and Transpacific line, and in 2002, he was promoted to Vice President of the same line.
Rodolphe Saadé was appointed General Manager in 2004 and is in charge of developing the North-South Axis’ regular lines to North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South and West Africa, Australia, and the Indian Ocean.
Rodolphe Saadé, who took over Delmas from CMA-CGM in 2005, is leading the development of Delmas’ lines in West, East, and Central Africa, as well as the Indian Ocean, and will make it an efficient and profitable maritime operator.
Rodolphe Saadé invested in the development of services to Africa and the Indian Ocean in 2008, after which he took over management of Delmas, which is dedicated to African lines. He was instrumental in coordinating the hostage-taking of a Compagnie du Ponant cruise ship that year. He oversaw negotiations with the kidnappers and assisted in the safe release of the victims.
Two years later, he was appointed Vice Chairman and a member of the CMA CGM Group’s Board of Directors. Rodolphe Saadé is appointed Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group in November 2017. The Group acquired a 25% stake in Ceva Logistics during its initial public offering in April 2018, led by Rodolphe Saadé. CMA CGM launched a public takeover bid for the company a year later. CMA CGM creates a global transport and logistics group with this acquisition.
Rodolphe Saadé relocates the headquarters of CEVA Logistics from Switzerland to France, creating 200 jobs. In the presence of French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, he will inaugurate it in November 2019.
Rodolphe Saadé establishes the Zebox start-up incubator in Marseille in August 2018, in collaboration with Accenture, BNP Paribas, EY, the forwarding agent Centrimex, and the logistics specialist Ceva.
Rodolphe Saadé announces his commitment in August 2019 at the G7 meeting to ensure that his container ships do not use the Northeast passageway, also known as the “Northern Route” and made accessible by global warming, in order to protect the biodiversity of the Arctic zone and combat global warming. The world’s first LNG-powered container ship will be launched in September 2019. Rodolphe Saadé announced in March 2020 that CMA CGM would provide the France Health Agency with 200,000 FFP2 protective masks to combat the COVID-19 virus.
How much is Rodolphe Saade worth?
His net worth was estimated at US$41.4 billion.
