Simon Gillham (born 24 February 1956 in

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) is a member of

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’s Management Board as well as the co-owner and chairman of the professional French rugby team

Club athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin Club Athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin, also referred to as CA Brive, Brive () or CAB, is a French professional rugby union club based in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the Corrèze department. Brive is a historical member of French rugby union, bein ...

(

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). He is Chairman of Vivendi Village, and Senior Executive Vice president - Communications for Vivendi. He is the father of 4 Franco-British children.

Life

Career

Simon Gillham holds a

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degree from the

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and a postgraduate degree in Education from the

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.. He started his career at

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in 1981 as a language training specialist. In 1985, he created a training and communications company: York Consultants. In 1991, he was appointed Communications Vice-President at Thomson Consumer Electronics. In 1994, he joined the CarnaudMetalbox group. In early 1999, Simon Gillham was appointed V-P Communications of the

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Group, before being appointed as

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Communications Vice-President in April 2001. He joined Vivendi in 2007 as Communications and Sustainable Development Senior Vice President. Since 2007, he has been Executive Vice-President - Communications Vivendi, as well as Chairman of Vivendi Village. Vivendi Village is a Vivendi subsidiary specialized in live entertainment, ticketing and venues, including such entities as

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, Copyrights Group and U-Live in the United Kingdom ,

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, Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, CanalOlympia (venues in Africa) and Olympia Production. Through Vivendi Village, Simon Gillham is behind the development of a range of regional festivals particularly in France, such as the Brive Festival, Les Déferlantes Sud de France and Garorock. In 2010, Simon Gillham was appointed

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. He was appointed to the Vivendi Management Board in November 2015.

Rugby

In 2007, he was appointed CEO of CA Brive Corrèze Limousin by then club owner, Daniel Derichebourg. In 2009, he acquired the club “with some friends”. In November 2016, Simon Gillham replaced Jean-Jacques Bertrand as club Chairman. CA Brive Corrèze Limousin currently competes in the French elite division, Top 14.

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilham, Simon 1956 births Living people Businesspeople from Paris Rugby union officials Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of the University of Bristol Officers of the Order of the British Empire