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Gérard Pélisson (9 February 1932 – 6 March 2023) was a French hotelier and businessman who was the co-founder of the Accor Group, and president of the Institut Paul Bocuse. Biography. Pelisson obtained his engineering diploma from the École Centrale Paris in 1955 and was a graduate of MIT in Boston.
Accor’s founders Paul Dubrule and Gérard Pélisson create a bold new model for the hospitality industry, catering to a fast-paced post-war lifestyle defined by movement and modernity. With the opening of Novotel Lille-Lesquin in 1967, the founders disrupt the staid hotel business.
Mar 6, 2023 · Gérard Pélisson, who co-founded the Accor hotel group and turned the business into the world's sixth largest hotel chain, has died at the age of 91 after a long illness,...
Dec 7, 2023 · Gerard Joseph Pelisson of Eastchester, New York, passed away on December 7, 2023, after a brief illness. Gerard was born in the Bronx on July 31, 1943, to an Irish mother and a French father, and he graduated from St. Simon Stock School, Fordham Prep, Fordham University, and NYU Graduate School.
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Gérard Pélisson (born 9 February 1932) is a French hotelier, entrepreneur, founder of the Accor Group and the current President of the Institute Paul Bocuse.
- Male
- Institut Paul Bocuse, Accor
- Paris, Ile-de-France
Mar 6, 2023 · It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Accor co-founder, Gérard Pélisson, who died on Monday, March 6, 2023, at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones. Gérard was an iconic trailblazer who, together with co-founder Paul Dubrule, propelled French hospitality into the modern age.
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Gérard Pélisson (b. 1932) & Paul Dubrule (b. 1934) are the French co-founders of the Accor Group that includes the Novotel hotel chain, the ibis and Sofitel hotel brands and today has the largest number of hotels in the low, medium and high-range price brackets across France.
