Group Chief Operating Officer 
CEO France, On-site Service Solutions  
Member of the Executive Committee

Group Chief Operating Officer, Roberto Cirillo has been CEO France since 2009, in charge of the French market for the On-site Service Solutions offer. He is responsible for the Food and Facilities Management Services companies held by Sodexo Group in France (the principle ones being Sodexo France, Sogeres, and Score), which represents approximately 2.4 billion euros (i.e. 18% of the Group's turnover) and incorporates 35,000 employees. 
  
Roberto Cirillo joined Sodexo in April 2007 as head of the Group's Strategy Plan and Innovation and, at 35, became the youngest member of the Sodexo Executive Committee. At this position, he was responsible for piloting the Group's global strategy development in conjunction with Michel Landel and the Executive Committee, aimed at achieving the company's “Ambition 2015” objectives set up in 2005. In September 2008, he also became responsible for brand and external communications. 
  
Roberto started his career in 1998 when he entered the Zurich office of consulting firm McKinsey & Co as a Junior Associate. During the four years he spent in this first post, which focused on Europe and the United States, he acquired considerable experience in operations and in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions in various sectors. In 2002, he left Switzerland for Amsterdam, where he was promoted to Associate Partner. He specialized in marketing, sales and innovation for major consumer industry clients, and he spent a year working in China, then in Australia, Russia, and Turkey, where he also stayed for one year. These international posts helped him develop considerable inter-cultural skills and greater professional flexibility. 

He trained as a mechanical engineer, and graduated from the Swiss federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he worked for four years as a researcher and teacher in the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in the mechanical engineering department. 
  
Roberto Cirillo was born in 1971 and has both Swiss and Italian citizenship.