Jean Claude Blanc has been chief executive of Ineos Sport – the group controlled by Sir Jim Ratcliffe – since 2022, overseeing their entire sporting portfolio, which includes French club Nice and the Mercedes F1 team among others.
Prior to that, he spent 11 years at PSG, overseeing the arrivals of stars of the world game including Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi, and has previously been described as ‘the Lionel Messi’ of sports business.
Jean’s career in sports management took off 20 years ago, and he was variously in charge of the Winter Olympic Games, the Tour de France and the French Open, the latter of which he is credited with greatly improving their development with an extra weekend of Grand Slam tennis among other innovations.