A multicultural entrepreneurial team To deliver the highest quality of service directly to its customers, the Group is organized by country and Business Unit. The Business Unit Manager at the heart of our organization is responsible for proposing and delivering our offerings to local customers. In this task, he or she is assisted by three corporate functions: • The major accounts department; • The industrial performance department; • The finance department. All Business Unit Managers act as entrepreneurs responsible for deploying the Group offerings to meet the needs of their customers and develop convincing commercial propositions to drive ongoing improvements in the services provided. All Business Unit Managers report to three Regional Managing Directors: Northern Europe (United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway), Southern Europe (Italy and Spain) and France (Belgium, Switzerland and Poland). The Group Executive Committee includes three Regional Managing Directors, the Chief Financial Officer, Director of Industrial Performance and the Key Accounts Department Officer. The result is a multicultural and multi-local team focused on customer service performance. A Board of Directors comprised of Independent Directors and Shareholders. Pierre Hessler, Independent Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee: Formally Vice President and Managing Director of marketing, services and operations for IBM Europe, he then joined Capgemini where he was notably responsible for managing consulting operations. Today he is a non-voting member (censeur) of the Board of Directors of Capgemini and a member of the Board of Directors of Bureau Veritas. Jean-François Prevost, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee: Formally, Deputy Managing Director with Natexis Banque Populaire, responsible for the trading bank. Career highlights include notably founding and directing the US operations of the Banque Française de Commerce Extérieur (French international trade bank) in New York. Jean-Jacques Damlamian, Independent Director and Chairman of the Strategic Committee: Independent Consultant. Previously, he held several key positions with France Telecom until 2004: Director of Industrial and International Affairs, Group Sales, Executive Director of the Development Division and Executive Director of Technology and Innovation for the Group. He serves on the Boards of Directors of several companies in the development phase. Pascal Wagner, Independent Director: Joining CGM in where he became responsible starting in 1985 for Financière de l’Atlantique, subsequently becoming the STEF-TFE Group. He became Secretary General in 1998 until his departure in 2009. He has since created a consulting company. Jean de la Villardière, Independent Director: He began his career as a Sales Engineer with RANK XEROX, subsequently becoming an IT broker with ÉCONOCOM. He created IRIS COMPUTER in May 1993, then in October 2007, following its sale, continued to serve as Chairman of GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIE and it subsidiaries. He resigned from this position in March 2008. Emmanuel Brossard-Ruffey, Independent Director: He began his career in 1992 as a member of the management team of Information Systems of the SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Group. He obtained a Masters degree in 2008 in management finance strategy from IFG/ICG. He created the ANOVO shareholders Association (AAAN) in early 2008 to provide a vehicle of representation for individual shareholders and is currently contributing to enterprise transformation and information system expertise missions for the IT subsidiary of AREVA. Christophe Liénard, Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer: A teacher at the Department of Sciences of Monastir (Tunisia) from 1986 to 1988. After six years with Atlas Copco as Chief Logistics and Production Officer, he joined ANOVO as Chief Industrial Officer in 1999, subsequently Managing Director of ANOVO of the Beauvais site in 2000 and Deputy Managing Director of the Group in 2003. Gilbert Weill, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: He joined ANOVO in April 2002. Previously he was responsible for two regions (Nordic Countries and the United Kingdom). The larger part of his career has been in the automation and telecommunication industry. He joined and managed from 1996 to 1981 CAMP (magnetic tollbooth systems), sold to Alcatel for whom he subsequently served as Executive Vice President of CGA Alcatel. From 1990 to 1998 he joined Dassault Electronique where he was Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Dassault AT. From 1998 and 2002, he was the Managing Director of CS-Security, a subsidiary of Cs-Communication et Systèmes. |