Marc Lumet

Following his graduation from ESSEC, a French business school, Marc attended Indiana University in 1968 where he earned an MBA in marketing management in 1968. He then went to work for Mitchell, a French company leader in the manufacturing and distribution of fishing reels at the time, and was instrumental in divesting the assets of the Garcia Company that became Mitchell’s property following its bankruptcy.

In 1979, he joined Lange as president of Lange USA, in Lodi, New Jersey and led the American subsidiary while playing a major management role with Lange International, in Switzerland and Italy where he had to continuously "tap dance" in an effort to satisfy the owner and make the various (and fractious) players work together. He stayed with the company through 1989 when he accepted the presidency of SMH-Swatch in the United States.

A few years later, he joined Lacoste’s top management team in Paris France and stayed in that position until his 2009 retirement. He remains a consultant with the sporting goods company and currently lives in Paris.