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Corporate governance
Composition and operation of the Board of Directors
Thierry Breton
Independent member
2015 Positions held within the Group
Born on January 15, 1955. French.
Number of Company shares owned:
1,000
Date of appointment to the Board of Directors:
July 28, 2008
Date of last renewal:
April 23, 2013
Term of office expires:
Shareholders’ Meeting convened to
approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending
December 31, 2015
Member of the Board of Directors of Carrefour
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Chairman of the Remuneration Committee of Carrefour
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2015 Positions held outside the Group
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
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Officer of Atos SE –
Listed company
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atos Worldline (Atos
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Group) –
Listed company
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bull SA (Atos Group) –
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Listed company
Director of Sonatel (Senegal)
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Member of the Global Advisory Council of the Bank of
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America Merill Lynch (United-States)
Director of SATS (Singapour) –
Listed company
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Chairman of the ANRT
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Member of the Académie des Technologies
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Experience
Thierry Breton graduated from the Paris École Supérieure
d’Électricité (Supelec) and the Institut des Hautes Études de
Défense Nationale (IHEDN, 46
th
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.
Chairman-CEO
of
Thomson
(1997-2002)
and
then
Chairman-CEO of France Telecom (2002-2005), he was
France’s Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industry
between February
25, 2005 and May
16, 2007, before
becoming a professor at Harvard University (USA) in
“Leadership, Corporate Accountability”, then Chairman of the
Management Board of Atos Origin in November 2008.
Former positions held from 2011 to 2014
Chief Executive Officer of Atos International SAS (Expiration
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date of term: 2014)
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