Rodolphe Saadé
Chairman
Management Team
sNOL
Singapore
Biography
Rodolphe Saadé (46 years old) is Chief Executive Officer and member of the CMA CGM Group’s Board of Directors. He is also Chairman of the NOL Board. Having obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University in Montreal, where he majored in marketing, he founded Dynamic Concept, a company selling water coolers. Since 1994, Mr Saadé has put his international business expertise to the service of the CMA CGM Group, led by Jacques Saadé. In particular he worked in New York and then Hong Kong before moving to the shipping company’s head office in Marseille in charge of lines serving five continents. From 1997 to 2000, Mr Saadé was successively heading different lines between North America, Europe and the Far East. Appointed Director of the Transatlantic and Transpacific line in 2000, he became the line’s Central Director in 2002. In 2006, he was appointed to expand DELMAS’ lines in West, East and Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, turning DELMAS into an efficient and profitable operator. In 2010, Mr Saadé was appointed Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at CMA CGM. In 2012, he oversaw the financial restructuring of the Group. In 2014, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the CMA CGM Group. In February 2017, Mr Saadé was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group.
Research Interest
Business, Finance management
