Gerard Dubois

Gérard Dubois is a Swiss-born pastry chef, businessman, and the founder of La Rose Noire.

Dubois studied and apprenticed as a pastry chef in Villars, Switzerland.

In 1982, he worked for Hilton Hotel in Gatwick and later was sent to Hilton Hotel in Istanbul then Guam. In 1986, he was sent to Hilton Shanghai for its opening. Due to problems of not having enough ingredients at that time, he trained about 70 people to do ingredients from scratch such as butter, pasteurized milk, ice cream, chocolates to serve many outlets. He worked there for two years. In 1988, he was transferred to Hilton Hong Kong.

In 1991, Gérard left Hilton and decided to start La Rose Noire Pâtisserie in Pacific Place Hong Kong. In 1994, he and La Rose Noire started supplying bakery products to local supermarkets.

Aside from being an entrepreneur, Gérard is a philanthropist. He also opened La Rose Noire Training Center in the Philippines, part of his charitable foundation where they teach students to become pastry chefs and chocolatiers.