René-Pierre Azria is a French businessman

Personal life

Azria holds an MBA. degree from

École des Hautes Études Commerciales HEC Paris () is a business school and ''grande école'' located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. It offers Bachelor, MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, professional developm ...

(France), a Bachelor of Mathematics from University of Paris-Jussieu and an International Management Degree from

London Business School London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of B ...

and the Stern Graduate School of

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

. In 1993, he married fiction writer Maria Alexis Winter.

Business

René-Pierre Azria has been a Managing Director of the Blackstone- Indosuez joint-venture and President of Financière Indosuez Inc. in New York City. He joined

N M Rothschild & Sons Rothschild & Co SCA is a multinational private and alternative assets investor, headquartered in Paris, France and London, United Kingdom. It is the flagship of the Rothschild banking group controlled by the British and French branches of the Rot ...

worldwide (head of the Technology Media Telecom practice of Rothschild in the

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) in 1996 as Global Partner. During this time, he supervised the takeover of Luxxotica on Oakley. Since 2008, Azria is the founder and CEO of the United States advisory firm Tegris LLC, a private investment bank.

Honors

Herbert Lehman Herbert Henry Lehman (March 28, 1878 – December 5, 1963) was an American financier and Democratic politician who served as the 45th and first Jewish governor of New York from 1933 to 1942 and represented New York in the United States Senate f ...

Prize of the

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(2010)René-Pierre Azria, banquier philanthrope
'' Les Echos'', June 23rd, 2010.

References

Alumni of London Business School HEC Paris alumni Living people Rothschild & Co people 21st-century French philanthropists 21st-century French businesspeople 1956 births {{France-business-bio-stub