Marc Karako joined Carlson Wagonlit Travel in July 2008 as executive vice president, chief financial officer. He is based in Paris and is a member of the global executive team.

Karako has broad experience in finance, strategy and investor relations. In his most recent position, he headed up the Finance practice at Resources Global Professionals, a management consulting firm and a former division of Deloitte. From 2003 until 2007, he was chief financial officer of Vallourec, world leader in the production of seamless steel tubes. Prior to that, he served as vice president of Finance at Thomson, a European technology company, between 1999 and 2003. Before joining Thomson, he spent four years with Cabot, a U.S. chemical company, where he was chief financial officer for Europe. Mr. Karako also held various management positions in finance at IBM Europe from 1985 to 1995. He started his career as a treasury analyst at Exxon France.

A French citizen, Mr. Karako holds a Master of Science degree from the French engineering school École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.