{"id":6750,"date":"2022-10-05T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weinbergcapital.com\/?post_type=portraits&#038;p=6750"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:15:34","slug":"serge-weinberg","status":"publish","type":"portraits","link":"https:\/\/www.weinbergcapital.com\/en\/portrait\/serge-weinberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Serge Weinberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Serge Weinberg founded Weinberg Capital Partners along with Philippe Kloconas in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before embarking on his career as a business leader and entrepreneur, Serge held a number of higher civil service positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined the Havas group in 1983 as CEO, and then Chairman, of Havas Tourisme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1987, Serge was named CEO of Pallas Finance, a trust company focused on mergers and acquisitions. He advised Fran\u00e7ois Pinault for the acquisition of a stake in CFAO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1990, Serge joined the Pinault group, which became PPR and then Kering, as Chairman and CEO of CDME, later renamed Rexel, where he implemented an active external growth strategy, completing some 40 acquisitions of local, and often family-owned, companies. He thus doubled Rexel\u2019s size between 1991 and 1995, also achieving a twofold increase in profit and market capitalization. In 1995, Serge was appointed Chairman of Pinault and went on to give the group a strong international focus. In 1999, alongside Fran\u00e7ois Pinault, he orchestrated Pinault\u2019s promising move into the luxury sector, before leaving the group in 2005 to form Weinberg Capital Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serge has remained very attached to public affairs throughout his career. His commitments in this space are many and varied, all having as a common thread an entrepreneurial spirit combined with service in the public interest. In particular, he is a founding member and serves as Treasurer of the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle \u00e9pini\u00e8re (ICM). In 2005, Serge created T\u00e9l\u00e9maque with Patrick Gagnaire to offer scholarships to bright and motivated young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. In 2018, he launched Changer par le Don with Denis Duverne, an initiative to encourage philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serge is also keenly attentive to the changing landscapes of geopolitics and defence. Under the pseudonym Serge Vignemont, he is one of the authors of <em>Arm\u00e9e, nation : le rendez-vous manqu\u00e9<\/em> (Paris: PUF, 1975). He has also been made a Commandeur de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Formerly Chairman of Accor and previous Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sanofi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has a degree in law and is a graduate of the Institut d\u2019\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and of the \u00c9cole Nationale d\u2019Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div id=\"block-verbatim-block_183fd1284ab0d9cdb39d1611db6623ff\" class=\"block-custom-acf block-verbatim\">\n\n            \n\n                <div class=\"section section-gmt-2 section-pt-3 section-pb-3  bg-medium-blue c-white\">\n                  <div class=\"container max-w-880 mx-auto\">\n\n                    \n\n                        <div class=\"quote-content font-light\">&ldquo;The driving force behind Weinberg Capital Partners is the transformation of our portfolio companies and assets. We\u2019re not just investing capital. Our focus is on getting involved, helping to build great entrepreneurial success stories with management teams. We bring our experience, our expertise and our contacts to support growth. With an investment, apart from the legal contract, there is a voluntary and essential mutual commitment: to go above and beyond the original business plan for the project.&rdquo;<\/div>\n\n                        \n                                        <!-- quote -->\n\n                  <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                <!-- section -->\n\n        <\/div>\n        <!-- block -->\n\n        <div class=\"section\">\n            <div class=\"container max-w-880 mx-auto\">\n                <div class=\"editor-text font-light\">\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serge Weinberg founded Weinberg Capital Partners along with Philippe Kloconas in 2005. Before embarking on his career as a business leader and entrepreneur, Serge held a number of higher civil service positions. He joined the Havas group in 1983 as CEO, and then Chairman, of Havas Tourisme. 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