Simon Gillham
Simon Gillham is the co-owner and director of the professional French rugby team Club athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin. He is also chairman of the English Championship, the second level of men's English rugby. Between 2007 and 2022, he was a member of Vivendi’s Management board. He is the father of 4 Franco-British children.
Life
Career
Simon Gillham holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sussex and a postgraduate degree in Education from the University of Bristol.He started his career at Thomson 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 Valeo Group, before being appointed as Havas Communications Vice-President in April 2001. He joined Vivendi in 2007 as Communications and Sustainable Development Senior Vice President.
In 2007, he became Executive Vice-President - Communications Vivendi, as well as Chairman of Vivendi Village.
Through Vivendi Village, Simon Gillham was 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 Officer of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
He was appointed to the Vivendi Management Board in November 2015.