[1][2] His brother, Jean-Charles Naouri, is the majority shareholder, chairman and CEO of Groupe Casino.
[3] Naouri started his career as a Corps des mines,[4] where he worked in the oil industry.
[2] He was appointed as an advisor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, in 1991.
[1][2][4] He was subsequently promoted as president of Publicis Conseil, its advertising agency, and later oversaw its operations in the Nordics, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg.
[6] In 2015, he sued Publicis for 20 million euros after they failed to give him his golden parachute; he lost the lawsuit in 2016.