But still so far done without too much of clogging

Young fresh graduate recent graduate of HEC, how Olivier Chatin could know, with the Tower GAN of defence this November 2, 1979, to its first day of hearing in "Arthur", that it would be still there thirty years later Of course, the Tower has changed: his Office is now located on the 21st floor of the EDF. The name of his employer also. Arthur Andersen having been carried away by the Enron affair, the party Council he headed in France since its inception in the mid 1990 was taken over by KPMG in 2002 and is called BearingPoint since that date. But, on his salary ballot, although thirty years of age who are registered.

Thirty years that are passed as a breath, perhaps because they had nothing a long quiet river. For this Emeritus rider mounts his trusty Castar every weekend at Maisons-Laffitte and diligently practice jumping, hedges did not fail. More or less high, more or less together, more or less dangerous. But still, so far, done without too much of clogging.

The Enron wall remains probably the most spectacular. Implementation review of Arthur Andersen, auditor of the broker in Texas energy, by the Grand Federal Jury in Houston on March 14, 2002 was de facto to giving the judgment of death of the firm of Chicago. A few months earlier, Olivier Chatin had made a purchase at roughly one half of the Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the hexagon activity. A transaction which had just crowned the rapid development of Andersen Business Consulting France, he had created in 1994 with seven guerrillas and that there were then several hundred consultants. After the thunder of March 2002, it will activate with several other "partners" Europeans for revival activity on another network. This will be KPMG Consulting, soon renamed BearingPoint.

A "historical" figure

This delicate step, business resumed and the numbers back up to more than 900 consultants. Among them, much of strong individuality to the well said ego, that need to manage. This is not in the specialized books that the former CET draws its science of management, but in the equestrian art. "Tight thighs and light hand", said nicely when asked about his style as boss.

He will take his plate and its fingering to overcome another obstacle that points to the horizon of the year 2008: development under Chapter 11 of BearingPoint Inc., the US parent. Taking the lead and play the transparency with clients with employees, but also resisting pressure from the Americans, who wanted to repatriate them the cash generated in the old Continent, Olivier Chatin and peers were able to get out of this second crisis from the top. All settled in July of this year, when the representatives of the American creditors eventually accept the idea of a LBO of the European partners. They are now 120 to share BearingPoint. Among them, nine are members of the "management committee" and lead the firm. Olivier Chatin, which in only fifty-two years, can already go to one of the "historic" House figures, is of course the number.

In the version 2009 BearingPoint joysticks, no more left to hope that the future will be bent less to a course of jumping to one of these beautiful and long slopes of Val - d ' Isère and the Alpe - d'Huez this Grenoble of adoption like both down. Any schuss... and smooth.