Kyril Louis-Dreyfus

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus (born 18 December 1997) is a Swiss-French businessman.

He is a member of the French Louis-Dreyfus family.

Since February 2021, Louis-Dreyfus has been the Chairman of English Championship football club, Sunderland.

In June 2022, he went from Chairman and minority stakeholder to Chairman and majority stakeholder.

Louis-Dreyfus was born in Zürich, Switzerland.

He is the son of Robert Louis-Dreyfus and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus.

In 2017, Louis-Dreyfus started studying sports and business management at the Leeds Beckett University for one year and moved to attend Richmond International Academic and Soccer Academy (RIASA) for his second year.

He later dropped out due to injuries.

In 2021, he acquired a "controlling" stake in the English Championship football club, Sunderland, from its previous owner, Stewart Donald.

The acquisition made him the youngest chairman in English football.

On 15 February 2022, it was revealed that Louis-Dreyfus was not a majority shareholder of Sunderland as his stake in the club was only 41%, with the remaining 59% of shares made up of former owner Donald, and directors Charlie Methven and Juan Sartori.

In June 2022, Louis-Dreyfus increased his shares in Sunderland from 41% to 51% - thus becoming majority & controlling shareholder - buying out Charlie Methvens 5%, and reducing Stewart Donald's percentage from 34% to 19%.

Juan Sartori picked up the remainder of Donald's shares, increasing his holdings from 20% to 30%.

In May of 2023, Stewart Donald's remaining shares were bought out by both Louis-Dreyfus and Sartori.

Louis-Dreyfus increased his share holdings in Sunderland to 64%, whilst Sartori increase his to 36%.

Many Sunderland supporters welcomed this news, bringing to a close the involvement of Donald and Methven in their football club.

Louis-Dreyfus is also a 5% stakeholder in the French football club, Marseille, and has stakes in esports' organisation Ovation.

On 21 December 2021 in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Louis-Dreyfus married his longtime girlfriend Alexandra Nowikovsky, the daughter of former Australian model Toneya Bird.