Dubois father folding on the Supervisory Board

The story began in 1860, at Saujon, peaceful village of Charente-Maritime. That year, Louis Dubois, practitioner of his State, hears medical hydrotherapy, interest and discovered a hot spring in the vicinity. One hundred forty-nine years later, his arrière-arrière-petit-fils, Thierry, reign on a beautiful family SMEs consisting of a thermal establishment booming, attached to a large clinical psychiatric and doubled to a wellness centre brand-new, Philae. Witness this success, the President of the Executive Board of the baths of Saujon has, in the heart of the summer, was worn by his peers at the head of the national Council of Spa operators (CNETh), the Professional Union he had actively helped to bear on the baptismal font in 2002 and had since one of the Vice-Chairmen.

The mine fat and smiling, the new voice of the profession is endless - without Word bad game - when it comes to talk about the benefits of the spa on the body and the soul of the patients or the amenities of its establishment. It aligns the figures with an obvious greed: 17 bathrooms, 4 showers, 7 rooms of massage rooms, a spa pool that cost him the bagatelle of 800,000 euros. Nothing is too good to accommodate the 2,500 patients who urge every year in Saujon. Satisfaction is deep, the company has not always been as successful. At the end of the 1970s, the annual number of patients had fallen below the 200. The stimulus will be staged. Thierry Dubois is worked for fifteen years in the shadow of his psychiatrist father - vouvoie - prior to being officially assigned commands: in 1992, he became Director-General; five years later, a change in Constitution made him the President of the Executive Board, Mr. Dubois father folding on the Supervisory Board. The case remains 100 family: the main collaborator of Thierry Dubois is none other than his wife, and one of his brothers is Director General.

Eldest of five children, the pattern fades readily behind the fame of his cadet Bruno, one of the specialists of Alzheimer's disease. He was never thought to do medicine: Chemistry, said, the discouraged. His studies also were a bit chaotic and unsuccessful by a degree of the Essca of Angers, which he later complement by a 3ecycle to the ICG.

Early talent Manager

If he has not inherited the Caduceus, Thierry, at age of fifty-nine years and the father of two children, soon proved to be of wood's managers. He was still a very young man when his father, faced inexplicable losses, asked him to put the nose in the accounts. Disciplined yarns, the former resident of the Jesuits at Bordeaux runs: it challenges of order within hours of additional, Legion; Returns to the combed the food purchases, called providers, reduced waste. Result: profitability is recovering. At the helm of the facility six days per week, 50 weeks per year, this lover of sailing has hardly had time to take advantage of its home on the island of Ré or to stroll at sea so far. But a beautiful sailing ship of 12 metres it is waiting for his old age. When it will be finished to demonstrate his talents as captain.