Cyril Hubert Marie Bourlon de Rouvre (born 19 December 1945, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French businessman and politician, and former Formula 1 team owner.
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Education and early career
Cyril Bourlon de Rouvre was born to industrialist Évrard Bourlon de Rouvre and his wife Claude Genty. Through his paternal great-grandfather, Charles Bourlon de Rouvre (1850–1924), Cyril was to inherit lucrative sugar refineries and land. Jacques Lebaudy was related to Charles by marriage through Gustave Lebaudy, Charles' father-in-law.
De Rouvre studied at Collège Maspero in Paris; the École Saint-Martin de France in Pontoise; the Oratory School in Reading, England; the Collège Saint-Jean in Fribourg; and the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris. He then studied electrical engineering at Sorbonne University's Jussieu Campus and aerospace engineering at the Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées.
After finishing university, he worked at Électricité de France before serving his conscription. He then worked as a technical sales engineer at Elliot Automation (1966–1968); Director of Export at Sucre Union company (1971–1973); sales director (1973) and audiovisual sales agent (1974–1975) at Lara audiovisuel; and associate director at Auto Racing (1977).