Press Briefing: New Sailboat Models 2021
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01 September 2020
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4:00 PM (Europe/Paris)
Groupe Beneteau's Deputy CEO Gianguido Girotti and the brand directors from BENETEAU, JEANNEAU, LAGOON and EXCESS will present the new sailboat models for the season 2020-2021.
Please make sure you have registered ahead of the webinar so you can easily access the presentation on September 1st.
More informations
01 September 2020
16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
This press briefing will be held in English only.
On this webpage, you can register and find more information about the programme and the speaker's list: https://www.bigmarker.com/groupe-beneteau1/Groupe-Beneteau-press-briefing-New-sailboats-models-2021
Performers
About Groupe Beneteau
Founded in Vendée 140 years ago by Benjamin Bénéteau, Groupe Beneteau is today a world leader in the boating industry. With an international industrial presence spanning 16 production sites and a worldwide commercial network, the Group generated revenue of €1 billion in 2024 and has a workforce of more than 6500 employees mainly in France, United States, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and Tunisia.
True to its mission – Bringing dreams to water – Groupe Beneteau designs and builds boats and services to make every experience on the water truly unique. Through its nine brands, its Boat division offers more than 135 boat models craft to meet the diverse needs and sailing projects of its customers, whether sailing or motoring, monohull or catamaran . Through its Boating Solutions division, the Groupe Beneteau is also involved in services covering daily or weekly boat hire, marinas, the digital sector and financing.
Gianguido Girotti
English, Italiano, Français
Gianguido Girotti is Groupe Beneteau's Chief Executive Officer.
Previously, he was Deputy CEO in charge of brand & product strategy for the Group's Boat division. From 2017 to 2019, he was General Manager of the BENETEAU brand.
A naval architecture graduate from the University of Southampton (UK), Gianguido Girotti joined the Beneteau brand as Marketing Director for sailboats in May 2015, after first working with naval architect German Frers and then Cantiere del Pardo (Grand Soleil and Dufour). He was appointed Marketing Director for both sail and powerboats for the Beneteau brand in April 2017.
Yann Masselot
English
The management of all the Brands and Communication of the Groupe Beneteau was entrusted to Yann Masselot in July 2022.
Yann Masselot joined the Beneteau boatyard in 1992 and worked in sales in the UK then France.
In 2000, he was appointed to head up commercial operations for LAGOON and enabling the brand to establish itself as the world leader for catamaran cruisers from 2003. He had been appointed CEO of Construction Navale Bordeaux between 2018 and 2020.
He had taken over the management of the BENETEAU brand in October 2020.
Yann Masselot is a graduate of the European Institute of Business in Paris and holds an MBA from Audencia Business School in Nantes.
Thibaut de Montvalon
English, Français
Thibaut de Montvalon is EXCESS Brand Director since January 1st, 2020.
In 2012, he joined Groupe Beneteau’s Asia Pacific office in Shanghai, as Regional Sales Manager for the brands Beneteau, Lagoon and Monte Carlo Yachts. In 2016, he was appointed Asia Pacific Director for these brands. After sailing for 6 months in the South Pacific with his family on board a Lagoon 380 catamaran, he joined Construction Navale Bordeaux as EMEA Catamarans Sales Director in January 2019.
Graduated from the French Institut Nautique de Bretagne (INB) and EDC business school, Thibaut has set since more than 20 years to combine his passion for boating with his professional life. He started his career in the yacht charter industry, with Sunsail and The Moorings, based in Portsmouth (UK) and then Tampa (FL, USA) where he was Purchasing and Logistics Director until 2008. He then joined Peters & May, specialized in yacht transportation, where he founded and ran Peters & May France in 2008 and Peters & May Asia in 2010 based in Hong Kong.