Biography - Guillaume Huard
Guillaume Huard
Sales & Marketing Director, Olympics & Major Events
Currently and since 2002, Guillaume is the Sales & Marketing Director of the Atos Origin – Major Events unit, based in Barcelona, Spain. His function is about marketing and selling specialized consultancy services, systems integration projects and software products to organizing committees of major events (sporting and non-sporting) worldwide. He has successfully led complex project sales in various countries such as the 2010 Asian Games in Guanghzou, China; 2007 Pan American Games in Rio, Brazil; 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany; 2005 University Games in Izmir, Turkey.
Previously he was Olympic Marketing Manager based in London, England between 2000 and 2002. Guillaume was then responsible for the activation of the marketing plans around the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games.
Prior to this (1997-2000), Guillaume was Corporate Marketing Manager, also based in London. There he was in charge of leading a number of cross-region marketing activities as well as consolidating the group major prospects portfolio. His first position when joining the group in 1996 was as Deputy UK Marketing Director where he had a major role in the Euro96 Football tournament, both on the marketing and operational aspects the project.
Before joining the group, Guillaume worked in Boston, USA and Paris, France in various positions as part of his education cursus.
Guillaume Huard is a graduate of the MBA-Institute, in Paris. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish.