Longuépée: I’m pretty confident that there is a major opportunity to do things differently. On taking advantage of Paris' existing sports infrastructure. There’s a great team and I think we can achieve a lot. I’m obviously thinking about hospitality, I’m obviously thinking about secondary ticketing and the best way to maximize attendance and try to capitalize on everything we’ve done, everything we’ve implemented at Roland Garros and Paris Saint Germain. I think it’s very important to remain humble, because the event is far bigger than who we are, so we will try to maximize what this event is offering to us, and maximize the return for the city and the country. Like we did in Paris Saint Germain, I want to learn the best practices and then try to see what can be implemented and see what can be improved. I want to understand the way they did it. I want to meet with the London people because it’s probably the best, it’s the closest benchmark for us compared to Rio and Tokyo, which are very much different. I want to first have a look and be humble enough to see what Tokyo has done and what the previous Olympics have done. Longuépée: I haven’t started yet, so it would be a little bit arrogant to say that we’re going to change everything. On his plans for generating revenue for Paris 2024. It's a great adventure and I'm really looking forward to it. It's a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the organization in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It's not the same, but I think it will be as interesting as the first one. I'm a former Olympic athlete, so it's another Olympic journey for me. It’s quite an honor to be chosen from a lot of candidates to be one of the top executives and the only guy who will have to deal with revenue, starting from scratch and try to meet the objective, which is to generate as much revenue as we can and be profitable at the end of the Games. So it’s quite a challenge, but an exciting journey as well. We will have to get something like €4 billion for the Olympics in the next six years. We were dealing with a €500 million budget at PSG. The difference is the amount of revenue we have to generate. He spoke to SBD Global about his new role with Paris 2024, his top priorities as he makes the transition and the impact Qatar Sports Investments had on PSG.įrédéric Longuépée: It’s a dream job to participate in this kind of major event. During his tenure with PSG, the Parisian club increased its annual revenue from €90M when he started to €500M by his final year. The former Olympian, who participated in Seoul 1988 as a gymnast, joined PSG as exec VP, business operations in '12 after working for the French Tennis Federation (FFT) for a decade. Germain this summer to become CCO of Paris 2024. Ouest-France.Longuépée called being hired as CCO of Paris 2024 the start of "another Olympic journey."įRÉDÉRIC LONGUÉPÉE left Paris St. Frédéric Longuépée quitte les Girondins de Bordeaux avec un beau chèque. Bordeaux elect ex-PSG Longuepee as club president. Frédéric Longuépée, du PSG et Paris 2024 à Bordeaux. In July 2021, Longuépée left FC Girondins de Bordeaux following its take-over by a new owner Gérard Lopez. The same year, he was appointed President of FC Girondins de Bordeaux. In July 2018, he joined the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics Committee for a few months and took over the commercial and marketing management as marketing Director. During the 7 seasons he spent in this position, the club's revenues increased 8-fold, with subscribers rising from 8,000 to 32,000 and the Parc des Princes sold out virtually every game the team played. in 2012, after the takeover of Paris Saint-Germain by Qatar Sport Investments (QSI), he was in charge of commercial activities. Īppointed Deputy Managing Director of Paris Saint-Germain F.C. In 2002 as deputy director of the French Tennis Federation, he took in charge of the general administration and commercial activities of Roland-Garros, which includes ticketing, hospitality operations and merchandising. In 1988 he competed in eight events in the French gymnastics team at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Īfter retiring as a gymnast, Longuépée pursued a career in sports management. In 1972, at the age of 7, Frédéric Longuépée started gymnastics in the North of France.Considered as one of the most promising gymnasts, he joined the INSEP (National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance) in Paris. As a gymnast, Longuépée competed in eight events at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Frédéric Longuépée (born 3 November 1965) is a French gymnast and businessman known for his activities in the sport industry, especially in the French football Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain and Girondins de Bordeaux.
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