Jacques-Henri Eyraud

Jacques-Henri Eyraud (born 22 March 1968 in Paris) is a French entrepreneur and media man. He is currently a European Club Association representative on the UEFA Club Competitions Committee, and part of the supervisory board of Olympique de Marseille, the club in which he formerly served as president from 2016 to 2021. Education Jacques-Henri Eyraud comes from a family of teachers. He graduated from Sciences Po Paris (class of 1989), Dauphine (Master 2 in telecommunications and new media management, 1990) and Harvard Business School (Master of Business Administration, 1998). At the age of 22, he did his military service as a press attaché for the Armed Forces Information and Public Relations Service during the Gulf War. From Disney to entrepreneurship He joined Eurodisney as spokesman in 1991, six months before the opening of what was then presented as Europe's "greatest project". He became the group's communications director. Encouraged by Disney's CEO Steve Burke (now CEO of NBCUniversal), he entered Harvard at the end of 1996 to pursue an MBA. These two years spent on the Boston campus instigated his entrepreneurial spirit.