Mr Rodolphe SAADE

Chairman and CEO, CMA CGM

Born in Lebanon in 1970, Rodolphe Saadé is the Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group since November 2017. After graduating in Business & Marketing from Concordia University in Montreal, he successfully founded a water cooler company before joining the CMA CGM Group, led by his father Jacques Saadé, in 1994. From 1997 to 2000, he headed different shipping lines, notably the Transatlantic and Transpacific lines. In 2004, he was appointed as Executive Officer in charge of developing regular lines on the North/South axis and managed the expansion of the DELMAS lines in Africa and the Indian Ocean. Appointed Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors in 2010, he oversaw the financial restructuring of the Group. In 2015, he conducted the acquisition of Neptune Orient Lines, a Singapore based shipping company. CMA CGM successfully carried out a public tender offer to CEVA Logistics in 2019, and launched in 2021 its air freight division, CMA CGM Air Cargo.