Dassault Aviation: Tribute to Olivier Dassault
08 Março 2021 - 12:20PM
Tribute to Olivier Dassault
Saint-Cloud, France, March 8,
2021 – It is with great sadness that we learned of the
death of Olivier Dassault, at the age of 69, in a helicopter
accident on 7 March 2021.
An aviation enthusiast, like his grandfather
Marcel Dassault and his father Serge Dassault, he was always keenly
interested in developing the business of our company.
He was born on 1 June 1951 in
Boulogne-Billancourt. He was an engineering graduate from the Ecole
de l'Air, held a DEA diploma in Mathematical Decision Sciences and
a Doctorate in management computing.
Following his solid scientific training, Olivier
Dassault’s first steps in professional life helped him to gain
experience of the communication sector, notably as a film producer
and then by creating his own advertising agency.
He was a professional pilot since 1975, and
jointly held world speed records – with Hervé Le Prince-Ringuet in
1977 from New York to Paris on a Falcon 50 and in 1987 from New
Orleans to Paris on a Falcon 900 – and with Guy Mitaux-Maurouard
and Patrick Experton in 1996 on a Falcon 900EX from Paris to Abu
Dhabi and Paris to Singapore.
In 1986, his father Serge Dassault entrusted him
with a number of roles and responsibilities within the Dassault
company, appointing him Deputy Vice-President for Europe Falcon
Service, and then Vice-President of Civil Aircraft Strategy in
1993.
He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the
Marcel Dassault industrial group (GIMD) until 2017 and Director at
Dassault Aviation since 1996. Throughout his life, he was a
determined defender of our company and of French aeronautics.
Moreover, on Thursday, March 4, 2021, during the last Board of
Directors meeting, he gave his full support to the company in its
management of the covid 19 crisis.
He was also a media man, holding the position of
Chairman of the Valmonde group, where he created the hunting
magazine Jours de Chasse (2000) devoted to another of his passions.
He became a Director of Socpresse (now Groupe Figaro) after the
latter was bought out by GIMD in 2004.
While continuing to be professionally active, he
entered politics. He was elected as a Member of Parliament (RPR
party) in 1988, winning back the Oise first district during the
parliamentary by-elections. He was an MP in the Oise department
from 1988 to 1997, and then again since 2002.
An artist at heart, Olivier Dassault was an
accomplished musician and notably composed the anthem for
Parliament, showing this institution another side of his creative
personality.
He was also a well-known photographer. He
published many books of photographs and regularly exhibited his
work successfully, in France and abroad.
He was a Reserve Captain in the Air force,
Knight of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the National order of
Merit and Officer of the order of the Arts and Letters.
“Olivier Dassault was a man of many talents:
pilot, engineer, politician, artist, whose achievements I have been
able to appreciate on many occasions. He was first and foremost,
for me, a very present Director, always at the company's side in
the many challenges it faces, said Eric Trappier, Chairman &
CEO of Dassault Aviation. To his wife and his three children, to
his sister and his brothers, our company wishes to express its
deepest emotion, its gratitude and its support”.
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ABOUT DASSAULT AVIATION:
With over 10,000 military and civil aircraft
(including 2,500 Falcons) delivered in more than 90 countries over
the last century, Dassault Aviation has built up expertise
recognized worldwide in the design, development, sale and support
of all types of aircraft, ranging from the Rafale fighter, to the
high-end Falcon family of business jets, military drones and space
systems. In 2020, Dassault Aviation reported revenues of €5.5
billion. The company has 12,440 employees.
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