Yoël Zaoui

Independent Non-Executive Director at Prada Group

Zaoui, Yoël, has been appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on May 27, 2021. He is a co-founder of Zaoui & Co., a firm established in 2013 to advise select clients on mergers, acquisitions and other strategic and financial transactions, as well as major investment decisions. Mr. Zaoui began his investment banking career at Goldman Sachs in 1988, and, over a 24-year career at Goldman Sachs, was responsible for some of Europe’s largest and more defining corporate transactions in a period of unprecedented growth. Mr. Zaoui was the first European investment banker to have joined Goldman Sachs’s top governing body, the management committee, a position he held from 2008 until his retirement in 2012. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Zaoui worked at Arthur Andersen in Paris (1983-1986). Mr. Zaoui was educated in France and the US; he obtained a diploma from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC, 1982), a DEA doctoral degree in Finance from Universite Paris-Dauphine (1983) and an MBA from Stanford University (1988). Mr. Zaoui continues to be actively involved with his alma maters, serving as a member of the Cercle des Grands Donateurs de la Fondation HEC. Mr. Zaoui is decorated by His Majesty the King of Morocco Mohamed VI of the Order of Wissam. Mr. Zaoui is a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

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  • Independent Non-Executive Director

    Current role