Pigasse buys Rock en Seine, launches live outfit
The 'rock star of finance', also chairman of Eurockéennes and owner of inRocKs, has big plans for the French festival market with François Missonnier-led LNEI Live
News By | 4 April 2017
Investment banker Matthieu Pigasse has bought Rock en Seine, one of France’s biggest music festivals, from its founders, François Missonnier, Christophe Davy and Salomon Hazot.
Pigasse, profiled by the The Wall Street Journal as the “rock star of finance”, already has a personal interest in rival festival Eurockéennes de Belfort, of which he is chair, and – through the LNEI (Les Nouvelles Éditions indépendantes) holding company – the inRocKs festivals and the Nuits Zébrées concert series by Radio Nova.
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