Pierre Riandet, Frenchman born in 1966, earned his degree in business administration from Dijon and Paris. Following professional stints at Arthur Andersen & Co., the Treuhandanstalt Trust Agency and Dow Chemicals & Plastics, he joined Coca Cola Erfrischungsgetränke AG in 1997. He has served as head of the Finance department at Berliner Verlag since November 2000, when it was still a G+J subsidiary. In 2005 he was appointed Executive Vice President of the International Magazines division at G+J International.
Pierre Riandet became Managing director and deputy to the CEO of the Prisma Presse Group in october 2009.