Governance

Corporate Governance

At AccorInvest, we ensure that we operate in full compliance with applicable regulations. We have governance bodies that follow international standards in terms of good governance and we promote management best practices within the company.

Boards of directors

The Board of Directors, is dedicated to determine the Group's strategic orientations and to ensure its implementation. The Board of Directors has also set up specialized committees whose main role is to advise the Executive Committee in the decision-making process. Board of Directors Committees

Commitments Committee

Audit Committee

Compensation Committee

ESG Committee

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is responsible for implementing the Board's strategic orientations under the supervision of the CEO, consistently with good management practices and the ethics principles of the group. This management and decision-making body is composed of eight members, in charge of the group's operational and functional divisions.
Gilles Clavie Chief Executive Officer More info
Olivier Daguzan Group Chief Operations Officer More info
Etienne De La Roncière SVP Group Asset Management & Construction More info
Corinne Fornara Group Chief Finance Officer More info
Jaïro Gonzalez Group Secretary-General More info
Cédric Durand Group Chief Transformation Officer More info
Wojciech Lacz Group Chief Information Officer More info
Olga Renda-Blanche Group Chief Human Resources Officer More info

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Gilles Clavie

Chief Executive Officer

Gilles Clavie started his professional career in 1993 as a Consolidation and Group Financial Reporting Manager in an agro-industry company. His experience with hospitality industry began 19 years ago in Accor Group, when he became EMEA Reporting Director for the business and leisure hotels segment. In 2011 Gilles joined Orbis S.A. as a member of the Executive Committee.

Since 2014, Gilles Clavie is a President of the Management Board & CEO of Orbis, an international group with over 4000 employees, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Under his leadership, in 2019 Orbis entered a new chapter of its development by transforming into a largest group investing in hotel assets in Poland and Eastern Europe, strengthening its leading position in the region.

Gilles has been awarded among “The 20 most efficient CEOs of the Warsaw Stock Exchange” (mWIG40 index) by Harvard Business Review Polska & TMS Brokers.

Gilles Clavie has been appointed AccorInvest Chief Executive Officer in July 2020.

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Olivier Daguzan

Group Chief Operations Officer

Olivier Daguzan is graduated from the Institut Commercial de Nancy (ICN) with a Master’s degree in Finance.

He joined AccorHotels as an internal auditor and has held several key roles including Chief Financial Officer Accor Services in India and Director of Finance, AccorHotels Egypt. Olivier has been with AccorHotels for over 15 years, most recently as COO AccorInvest Benelux.

Since completing the sale of the capital of AccorInvest, Olivier Daguzan has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) Northern Europe (United-Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) for AccorInvest. Since October 2020, Olivier has been appointed Group Chief Operations Officer.

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Etienne De La Roncière

SVP Group Asset Management & Construction

Etienne starts his mission last October when the Asset Management business-line was created. He has since shown his unwavering commitment to define and implement the asset management plan in the difficult context we are experiencing. Disposals of Australian and African portfolios are concrete examples.

Etienne therefore remains at the head of the Asset Management business-line and will be responsible for continuing to define a long-term holding strategy for the Group, ensuring that our investment decisions are prioritized, and the asset value of the company is improved. In 2017, when AccorInvest was created, Etienne joined the adventure in London in the Northern Europe teams, as SVP Asset Management for Northern Europe. Graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Warwick, Etienne began his career at Accor as Director of Development in London then Director of Asset Management for the UK and Ireland.

Etienne De La Roncière has been appointed AccorInvest Group SVP Asset Management & Construction in April 2021.

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Corinne Fornara

Group Chief Finance Officer

Corinne Fornara graduated from ESCEM, Tours Business School, Corinne also hold a DESCF degree in Accounting and Finance.

She began her career at Deloitte as Financial Auditor before joining the Kering Group in 1993 in the consolidation department. In 1996, she joined Atos Origin where she held various finance positions, and in 2000 she has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Atos Euronext in charge of Finance, Legal, Risk Management and Secretary of the supervisory board.

In 2009, Corinne became Chief Financial Officer of NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Euronext for Europe. In 2013, she was appointed Group Controller at Constellium and then in 2016 served as Chief Financial Officer. Constellium is a Dutch group listed in New York, world leader in the transformation of aluminum into finished and semi-finished products for aeronautics, automotive and packaging. In this last position, Corinne managed the transition between a private company and a public one, prepared the listing and set up the necessary financial organization (team, tools and processes). Corinne was a member of the Constellium Executive Committee.

Since completing the sale of the capital of AccorInvest, Corinne Fornara has been appointed Group Chief Finance Officer in charge of Finance, Internal Audit and Risk management of AccorInvest.

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Jaïro Gonzalez

Group Secretary-General

Jaïro Gonzalez holds a master degree in Public International Law and a master degree in International Economic Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Jaïro spent over 19 years with AccorHotels Group where he held different key positions in France and abroad, including Senior Legal Counsel, General Counsel for Central & Eastern Europe based in Budapest, and General Counsel Corporate at AccorHotels’ headquarters in Paris.

During his career, he has developped in-depth knowledge in all legal aspects of the hospitality industry, including the M&A and real estate components, across different jurisdictions, among which, France, Spain, South America, Central & Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia.

Since completing the sale of the capital of AccorInvest, Jaïro Gonzalez has been appointed Group General Counsel, Board Secretary and Compliance Officer of AccorInvest. Since october 2020, Jairo has been appointed Group Chief Corporate Officer (Legal, Compliance, Human Resources, Communication & Board Secretary).

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Cédric Durand

Group Chief Transformation Officer

Cedric Durand is graduated from the European Business School in Paris, with a Master’s degree in Finance and auditor from IHEE (2010).

Cedric has held several key positions in Finance for AccorHotels Group over the last 17 years as Chief Financial Officer for AccorHotels in France, in Africa & Middle East and for Ticket Restaurant ® (luncheon vouchers). Previously Cedric was COO for AccorHotels’ HotelInvest division in France, member of the HotelInvest worldwide Executive Committee, mainly in charge of asset management operations, financial, legal departments and Construction & technical services.

Since completing the sale of the capital of AccorInvest, Cédric Durand has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for AccorInvest Southern Europe (France, Italy, Greece, Spain & Portugal) and since october 2021, he has been appointed Group Chief Transformation Officer.

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Wojciech Lacz

Group Chief Information Officer

After various experiences at L'Oréal and then for 8 years at Danone, Wojciech joined the Accor Group in 2018 as Director of IT & Digital Services for Eastern Europe. During this last experience, Wojciech was responsible for defining and supervising key IT and digital projects for the Eastern Europe region (16 countries).

Last 5 months, he was appointed as SVP Technology and Digital and ComEx member for Accor Northern Europe. His experiences in digital services and organizations, including building different scope of the shared services, major international infrastructure consolidation and execution of cloud strategy will be key areas of expertise for his mission within AccorInvest.

Wojciech Lacz has been appointed AccorInvest Group CIO, leading Business Digitalization & Technology stream since March 2021.

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Olga Renda-Blanche

Group Chief Human Resources Officer

Olga Renda-Blanche holds a business Law DESS and a Master degree in Legal advisor at the University UT1 Toulouse.

Olga has acquired over 20 years of experience in the demanding aeronautics sector (Alcatel, Thales, Airbus, ATR), in which she held various management positions in human resources. From 2016 to 2020, as HR Director of ATR, her priority was change management; as such, and whilst always demonstrating special care for the employee experience, she contributed to the digitalization of the HR processes and to the implementation of an ambitious HR policy, in a very international environment. These past two years, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, Olga was VP Human Resources in the Airbus Group, which comprises over 130,000 employees worldwide.

Olga Renda-Blanche has been appointed Group Chief Human Resources Officer since January 2022.