Simon Gillham


Simon Gillham is the co-owner and chairman of the professional French rugby team Club athlétique Brive Corrèze Limousin as well as a member of Vivendi’s Management Board. He is Chairman of Vivendi Village, and Senior Executive Vice president - Communications for Vivendi. He is the father of 4 British-French children.

Life

Career

Simon Gillham holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sussex and another from the University of Bristol.
He started his career at Thomson in 1981 as a management training specialist. In 1985, he created his own training and communications company: York Consultants. In 1991, he was appointed as Communications Vice-President at Thomson Consumer Electronics. In 1994, he joined the CarnaudMetalbox group. In early 1999, Simon Gillham was appointed to head the Communications department 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 Director.
Since 2007, he is Vivendi Executive Vice-President - Communications, as well as Chairman of Vivendi Village. Vivendi Village is a Vivendi subsidiary specialized in live entertainment, ticketing and venues, which includes such entities as See Tickets, Copyrights Group and U-Live in the United Kingdom, L'Olympia, Théâtre de l'oeuvre, CanalOlympia and Olympia Production.
Through Vivendi Village, Simon Gillham is 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 made Officer of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Since November 10, 2015, he is a member of Vivendi’s Managing Board.

Rugby

In 2007, he was appointed Director-general of CA Brive Corrèze Limousin by then club owner, Daniel Derichebourg. In 2009, he bought the club “with some friends” and appointed Jean-Jacques Bertrand as Chairman. In November 2016, Simon Gillham replaced Jean-Jacques Bertrand as club Chairman. CA Brive Corrèze Limousin currently competes in Top 14.