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DANONE
REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2015
Corporate Governance
6.2 Positions and responsibilities of the Directors and Nominees to the Board of Directors
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Current Directors
BRUNO BONNELL
Born October 6, 1958
Age: 57 years
French nationality
Business address:
1, rue du Docteur Fleury-Pierre
Papillon – 69100 Villeurbanne – France
Number of DANONE shares held as of December 31, 2015:
4,000
Independent Director
Attendance rate at Board of Directors' meetings as of
December 31, 2015:
80%
Principal responsibility:
Chairman of I-Volution
Personal background – experience and expertise:
Bruno BONNELL was born in Algiers, in 1958. He re-
ceived a degree in chemical engineering at CPE Lyon
(École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique
de Lyon) and another in applied economics from
the University of Paris-Dauphine (class of 1982). He
began his career at Thomson SDRM as a business
engineer responsible for launching and marketing
the company's first computer, the T07. In June 1983,
Bruno BONNELL founded Infogrames, which in 2000
merged with Atari (listed on the NYSE Euronext). In
1995, he co-founded Infonie, the first Internet service
provider in France. He left Infogrames in April 2007
and founded Robopolis, a company that specializes in
service robotics and distributes robots aimed at the
household market. The company has operations in
seven European countries. In 2010, he founded Awabot,
a robotic platform services company that specializes
in telepresence robots. That same year, he founded
the French Federation of Service Robotics (Syndicat
de la Robotique de Service – SYROBO) and serves as
its Chairman. In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of
the Board of Directors of EM Lyon Business School. He
is a member of the Management Board of Pathé SAS
and of the Board of Directors of April SA. He has also
been a member of the Supervisory Board of Banque
Rhône-Alpes since 2013. Together with his Orkos Capital
partners, in March 2014 he created Robolution Capital,
a private equity fund that focuses on service robotics.
Honorary distinctions:
1997: Knight of the Ordre National du Mérite
1995: Named entrepreneur of the year by le Nouvel
Économiste
2015: Named Reservist Colonel of the Air Force
Positions and responsibilities as of December 31, 2015
(a)
Position
Company
Country
Director (term of office
from February 18, 2002
to the end of the
Shareholders' Meeting
to approve the 2016
financial statements)
DANONE SA
(b)
France
Chairman of the Board
of Directors' Social
Responsibility
Committee (since
February 19, 2015)
Director
APRIL SA
(b)
France
Member of the
Sustainable
Development
Committee
Member of the Strategy
Committee
Chairman
AWABOT SAS
France
I-VOLUTION SAS
France
SOROBOT SAS
France
OPAL SASU
France
Director
ROBOPOLIS SAS
France
Member of the
Management Board
PATHE SAS
France
Member of the
Supervisory Board
BANQUE RHÔNE-ALPES
France
Position
Associations/Foundations/Other
Country
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL
France
Chairman
SYROBO SERVICE ROBOTICS GROUP (SYMOP)
France
Founding partner
ROBOLUTION CAPITAL (Professional Private
Equity Fund)
France
(a) Offices shown in italics are not governed by Article L. 225-21 of the French commercial code
concerning multiple directorships.
(b) Listed company.
Positions and responsibilities held during the past five years
Position
Company
Country
Member of the Board
of Directors' Social
Responsibility
Committee
DANONE SA
(a)
France
Member of the
Supervisory Board
ANF IMMOBILIER SA
(a)
France
Position
Associations/Foundations/Other
Country
Chairman
SYROBO SERVICE ROBOTICS
France
(a) Listed company.