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Loïc Féry | |
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Born | |
Education | HEC Paris |
Occupation(s) | Businessman and football club owner |
Known for | Owner of football club FC Lorient |
Spouse | Olivia Féry |
Children | 3 including Arthur Fery (son) |
Loïc Féry (born 15 March 1974) is a French businessman. He founded the investment firm Chenavari in 2007 and became the owner of football club FC Lorient in 2009. [1]
Féry was born in Nancy. [1] He grew up in Pont-à-Mousson, also in Lorraine, where his parents were teachers; his father in physical education, his mother in mathematics. He achieved a Bac C (now Baccalauréat scientifique) with the mention très bien grade. He attended the Lycée du Parc school in Lyon and the HEC Paris. [2]
Féry worked as a financial trader in Hong Kong and London before setting up Chenavari. [2] As of 2020, Chenavari had $5 billion in assets. [3] He considered buying OGC Nice, Nîmes Olympique, Grenoble Foot 38 or Sheffield Wednesday before buying FC Lorient in 2009. [3] The Nice offer in 2001 was with a Korean business partner, and was rejected for lack of transparency, while the president of Nîmes changed his mind as his club was promoted to Ligue 2, and Wednesday was considered too expensive and risky for Féry. [4] As of 2012, Lorient was the only Ligue 1 club not in debt. [4]
In late 2012, Féry was elected president of the administration council of the Ligue de Football Professionnel. [5] In July 2018, he and Francis Graille of AJ Auxerre were elected presidents of the same body for Ligue 2 clubs. [6]
Féry's wife Olivia Féry, born Olivia Gravereaux, was a professional tennis player who also represented Hong Kong during their stay there. Their son Arthur Fery became a professional in the same sport, under his British nationality. [7] [8]
You can help expand this article with text translated from
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Loïc Féry | |
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Born | |
Education | HEC Paris |
Occupation(s) | Businessman and football club owner |
Known for | Owner of football club FC Lorient |
Spouse | Olivia Féry |
Children | 3 including Arthur Fery (son) |
Loïc Féry (born 15 March 1974) is a French businessman. He founded the investment firm Chenavari in 2007 and became the owner of football club FC Lorient in 2009. [1]
Féry was born in Nancy. [1] He grew up in Pont-à-Mousson, also in Lorraine, where his parents were teachers; his father in physical education, his mother in mathematics. He achieved a Bac C (now Baccalauréat scientifique) with the mention très bien grade. He attended the Lycée du Parc school in Lyon and the HEC Paris. [2]
Féry worked as a financial trader in Hong Kong and London before setting up Chenavari. [2] As of 2020, Chenavari had $5 billion in assets. [3] He considered buying OGC Nice, Nîmes Olympique, Grenoble Foot 38 or Sheffield Wednesday before buying FC Lorient in 2009. [3] The Nice offer in 2001 was with a Korean business partner, and was rejected for lack of transparency, while the president of Nîmes changed his mind as his club was promoted to Ligue 2, and Wednesday was considered too expensive and risky for Féry. [4] As of 2012, Lorient was the only Ligue 1 club not in debt. [4]
In late 2012, Féry was elected president of the administration council of the Ligue de Football Professionnel. [5] In July 2018, he and Francis Graille of AJ Auxerre were elected presidents of the same body for Ligue 2 clubs. [6]
Féry's wife Olivia Féry, born Olivia Gravereaux, was a professional tennis player who also represented Hong Kong during their stay there. Their son Arthur Fery became a professional in the same sport, under his British nationality. [7] [8]