Patricia Huyghues Despointes

About Patricia Huyghues Despointes

Patricia Huyghues Despointes serves as Group Chief Financial Officer at SMCP, a listed fashion group best known for the Sandro, Maje, Claudie Pierlot and De Fursac brands. Appointed in January 2021, she joined the group’s Executive Committee and took on a central role in overseeing financial performance, governance and the support functions closely linked to finance. SMCP highlights her deep familiarity with the fashion and luxury environment as well as her ability to contribute to the group’s success in a new strategic phase. Before joining SMCP, she spent more than 15 years at LVMH, where she built a career across several senior finance positions. She first joined LVMH’s corporate finance teams in 2004, working on key projects related to financing, taxation and acquisitions. She then led the financial controlling team for the Fashion & Leather Goods division for more than five years, covering roughly fifteen brands, which gave her broad exposure to the economics of multi-brand luxury operations. She later served as CFO of Givenchy for over four years, partnering with top management on strategy while supervising the finance, IT, legal and audit teams. Her background reflects a senior executive with a strong blend of strategic finance, operational discipline and luxury-sector expertise. At SMCP, her mandate supports a company that operates internationally and depends on tight financial control, brand investment and execution excellence. Her experience across brand portfolios, group finance and business transformation is particularly relevant in a listed-company setting, where transparency, capital allocation and performance management are essential. Huyghues Despointes studied at HEC Paris and Sciences Po Paris and holds the DESCF qualification, reinforcing a profile grounded in both top-tier business education and technical accounting expertise. Overall, she represents the type of finance leader often relied upon to steer growth, reinforce controls and support strategic decision-making in a global consumer group.