Valeo’s CEO Jacques Aschenbroich is listed № 14—and is first French CEO—in this year’s version of the Harvard Business Review’s Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World list.
Aschenbroich, an engineering graduate of the École des Mines, held several positions in the French administration and served in the Prime Minister’s office in 1987 and 1988.
He then pursued an industrial career in the Saint-Gobain group from 1988 to 2008, finishing as Vice-Chairman of Saint-Gobain Corporation and General Delegate to the United States and Canada. Since March 2009, Jacques Aschenbroich has been the CEO of Valeo.