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2014 Registration Document
Corporate governance
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Composition and operation of the Board of Directors
Thierry Breton
Independent member
Born on January 15, 1955. French.
Number of Company shares owned:
1,000
Date of appointment to the Board of Directors:
July 28, 2008
Renewal date:
April 23, 2013
Term of office expires:
Shareholders’ Meeting convened to approve
the Financial Statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015
EXPERIENCE
Thierry Breton graduated from the Paris École Supérieure d’Électricité
(Supelec) and the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale
(IHEDN, 46th class). In 1986, Mr. Breton became Project manager of
the Poitiers Futuroscope theme park, then headed its teleport operations.
He later served as an advisor to Education Minister René Monory in
the field of new information technologies. Mr. Breton also sat on the
Poitou-Charentes Regional Council from 1986 to 1992, serving as
Vice-Chairman from 1988. He then joined Bull as Head of Strategy &
Development, before being appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
Appointed to the Group’s Board of Directors in February 1996, he was
later made Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and then Chief
Executive Officer of the Group.
In 1997 he became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson
until 2002 and then joined France Telecom in the same year as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer until 2005.
Thierry Breton was French Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry
from February 2005 to May 2007, and professor at Harvard from 2007
to 2008.
Since 2008, he is Chairman of the Executive Committee of Atos and
has been elected as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of this Group
in February 2009.
2014 POSITIONS HELD WITHIN THE GROUP
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Member of the Board of Directors of Carrefour
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Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Carrefour
POSITIONS HELD OUTSIDE THE GROUP 2014
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Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer of Atos SE
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Chief Executive Officer of Atos International SAS
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Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Atos Worldline
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Director of Sonatel (Senegal)
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Member of the Global Advisory Council
of the Bank of America Merill Lynch (United States)
FORMER POSITIONS HELD FROM 2010 TO 2013
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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atos Origin
(Expiration date of term: 2011)
René Brillet
Independent member
Born on August 1, 1941. French.
Number of Company shares owned:
270,250
Date of appointment to the Supervisory Board:
April 20, 2005
Date of appointment to the Board of Directors:
July 28, 2008
Renewal date:
April 15, 2014
Term of office expires:
Shareholders’ Meeting convened to approve
the Financial Statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016
EXPERIENCE
Carrefour’s former Chief Executive Officer Asia, René Brillet began his
career as a radio officer in the merchant navy in 1968. In 1972 he joined
Carrefour and held a series of posts, ranging from Senior Accountant
in Italy and Brazil, to store manager and Head of Organization and
Procedures, also while he was in Brazil. In 1981, he moved to Argentina
as Executive director, and then to Spain from 1982 to 1985, and finally
to France, which he managed from 1986 to 1995. In 1996, he was
appointed Chief Executive Officer for Europe and then Chief Executive
Officer for Asia in 1998, a position he held until February 28, 2004.
2014 POSITIONS HELD WITHIN THE GROUP
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Member of the Board of Directors of Carrefour
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Member of the Accounts Committee of Carrefour
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Member of the Remuneration Commitee of Carrefour
POSITIONS HELD OUTSIDE THE GROUP 2014
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Director of Electricité et Eaux de Madagascar
FORMER POSITIONS HELD FROM 2010 TO 2013
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