Pierre-Yves Gerbeau

[4] He then turned to business, first with TPS Conseil, then in 1991 joined Euro Disney, rising rapidly to become Vice-President of Park Operations and Attractions in 1997.

[clarification needed] He was brought in to turn around the fortunes of an attraction struggling in the face of major financial problems[12] and negative publicity.

[2] Following the closure of the millennium exhibition at the end of 2000, Gerbeau became Chief executive of X-Leisure, operator of the Xscape centres and other leisure facilities.

He is married to Kate Gerbeau (née Sanderson), a British television presenter, and has a daughter (Clémence)[17] from another relationship.

[citation needed] Appearing on the BBC's Question Time on 28 May 2009, Gerbeau declared that he would live in Britain for the rest of his life, jokingly describing France as "a communist country.