François Guiter

François Émile Jean Guiter (7 May 1928 — 9 November 2014) was a French businessman who served as Elf's head of marketing from 1967 to 1989. Through his control over the French state-owned oil company's marketing budget, he became one of Formula One's most important power brokers. Joe Saward of Autoweek described Guiter as one of "the primary forces in creating modern F1".