Thierry Dassault

  • Thierry Dassault is one of Serge Dassault’s four children who inherited their father’s wealth when he died in May 2018.
  • Dassault serves as co-managing director of the family-contolled aerospace and software conglomerate Dassault Groupe.
  • He has been in and out of his family’s company since 1979, with stints in the film world as a producer. He also runs his own investment vehicle, TDH.
  • Marcel, Thierry’s grandfather, founded Dassault Aviation, a French aerospace company that started out making propellers in World War I.
  • He and his family also own the country’s daily newspaper Le Figaro, vineyards and a private aeronautic company.