tiosmedia.info@gmail.comNotable speakers at the event included: Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media; Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Prime Minister of Thailand; Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO, LVMH Group; Thaksin Shinawatra, Former Prime Minister of Thailand; Jenny Johnson, President and CEO, Franklin Templeton; Suphachai Chearavanont, Senior Vice Chairman and CEO, Charoen Pokphand Group, Chair of the Board, True Corporation; Chip Kaye, Chairman, Warburg Pincus; Enrique K. Razon Jr., Chairman and President, International Container Terminal Services, Inc.; Panote Sirivadhanabhakdi, Group CEO, Frasers Property; Jenny Lee, Senior Managing Partner, Granite Asia; Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President, Bangkok Bank; and Jane Sun, CEO, Trip.com Group.
For the full list of speakers, please visit the conference website. Key insights and highlights from the conference can be found below.
LVMH Billionaire Bernard Arnault Receives Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award
Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH Group, received the Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award at the Forbes Global CEO Conference 2024 on November 20.
The award, which recognizes a lifetime of achievement and is a celebration of global business success, is bestowed upon an individual who embodies and exemplifies the ideals of entrepreneurship championed by the late Malcolm S. Forbes, the legendary publisher of Forbes.
A civil engineer by training, Arnault went on to parlay a small fortune from his family’s construction business in northern France into a multibillion dollar global fashion empire.
Arnault built LVMH into the world’s largest luxury conglomerate by market cap ($312 billion) with a portfolio of over 75 luxury brands including flagship Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy. The French tycoon got his start with the acquisition of Christian Dior in 1984 and over four decades stitched together a series of deals under LVMH, the largest of which was the $15.8 billion acquisition of American jeweler Tiffany & Co. in 2021.
