PARIS 2024 OPEN GAMES PARIS 2024 49 Jean-Philippe Gatien Executive Director of Sport Marlène Masure Executive Director of Commercial Development and Partnerships ©Rudy Waks ©Rudy Waks A graduate of the ESSEC Business School, Jean- Philippe Gatien won men’s table tennis singles silver at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games, a world title in Gothenburg in 1993 and an Olympic bronze at Sydney 2000, a career record that has made him one of France’s finest table tennis players of all time. After retiring from his sport, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of the French National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) in 2014. In 2015, Jean-Philippe Gatien was appointed Executive Director of Sport for the Paris 2024 Bid Committee, a post he now holds with the Organising Committee. Marie Barsacq Executive Director of Impact and Legacy ©Rudy Waks A lawyer by training, Marie Barsacq worked for ten years for the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF), devoting her energies to employment, training and qualification in the sporting movement. She then joined the French Football Federation (FFF), where she set up the Institute of Football Coaching (IFF) before becoming the FFF’s assistant general manager for amateur football. Marie Barsacq is also a member since 2018 of the Executive Committee of the French Football Federation. Marie Barsacq then took up position as the Director of Impact and Legacy for the Paris 2024 Bid Committee, and then Executive Director within the Organising Committee. A graduate of the Burgundy School of Business with ten years’ experience in the FMCG and gaming industries, Marlène Masure joined The Walt Disney Company – the world’s leading media and entertainment group – in 2007, where she took on the role of Digital Marketing Director before becoming Vice-President of Marketing for all lines of business in France. In 2016, she also became Head of Advertising Sales and Partnerships. For 12 years, Marlène steered all the marketing channels for the group’s various brands (Disney, Marvel and Star Wars) in order to raise their profile in France and abroad. By promoting the group’s media solutions and creating innovative brand content, she built strategic partnerships with big-name brands from the automobile, consumer goods, restaurant and distribution industries. Marlène Masure has been appointed Executive Director of Business Development and Partnerships for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee. Georgina Grenon Director of Environmental Excellence ©Rudy Waks An expert in renewable energies and clean technology innovation, Georgina Grenon obtained an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico in Buenos Aires and an MBA from INSEAD Business School. She began her career in development at YPF S.A., a national oil company in Argentina. She then took up position as a director at international strategy consultancy Booz Allen, devoting herself mainly to energy and operations and working in Europe, the USA, Japan and South America for nearly ten years. She moved on to become a project manager for green industries at the Directorate-General of Energy and the Climate (DGEC), part of the French Ministry of Ecology and Energy, where her brief was to support the development of renewable energy policies and markets. She also represented France at the International Energy Agency, promoting international cooperation in the creation of markets, innovation and the deployment of clean energies, playing an active part at COP21 and, among other things, helping to create the International Solar Alliance. She then moved to ENGIE Group, becoming director of the New Business Factory at ENGIE Fab. Georgina Grenon has joined the Organising Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games as its Director of Environmental Excellence.