Frédéric Jousset

Jousset is the son of Marie-Laure Jousset, Chief Curator at Beaubourg, and Hubert Jousset, President of the GEFIP and the École normale de musique. Jousset graduated from HEC in 1992. During his military service, he was second lieutenant for the 6th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment. He is the brother of the journalist Alexandra Jousset.

Jousset began his career in 1994 for Kérastase, a division of L'Oréal. In 1998, he founded his first company, Clientis SA, a software publisher for beauty salons. He then joined the American strategy consulting firm Bain & Company where he worked as a strategy consultant. In June 2000, he co-founded Webhelp SA with Olivier Duha, initially offering IT support services and later expanding into operating call centers and outsourcing business services.

In 2014, Jousset obtained a 50-year concession for the Relais de Chambord hotel located in front of the Château de Chambord. He called upon the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte for the complete renovation. The hotel reopened in March 2018 with 55 rooms, suites, and a gourmet restaurant. Frédéric Jousset bought Beaux Arts Magazine in 2016 and Le Quotidien de l'art in 2017. In 2018, the Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen entrusted him with the steering of the working group linked to the culture pass for young people.

In 2020, Jousset stepped down from his executive position at Webhelp, but remained vice-president of the board. In 2023, he sold Webhelp to Concentrix in a deal that valued his company at $4.8 billion. He bought the agrofood group Bio Conquête in 2022 and renamed it Quaterra in 2024 after acquiring the French chicken producer Ducs de Gascogne. In 2024, his holding Compagnie Financière Jousset took over the waterproofing manufacturer SMAC. In 2025, Compagnie Financière Jousset acquired 25% of Karavel which controls the travel companies FRAM and Promovacances.