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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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JEAN LAURENT
Born July 31, 1944
Age: 71 years
French nationality
Business address:
30, avenue Kléber – 75208 Paris
Cedex 16 – France
Number of DANONE shares held as of December 31, 2015:
5,184
Independent Director and Lead Independent Director
Attendance rate at Board of Directors' meetings as of
December 31, 2015:
100%
Principal responsibility:
Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Foncière des Régions
Personal background – experience and expertise:
Jean LAURENT is a graduate of the École Nationale
Supérieure de l'Aéronautique (1967) and has a Master
of Sciences degree from Wichita State University.
He spent his entire career at the Crédit Agricole group,
first with Crédit Agricole de Toulouse, and later with
Crédit Agricole du Loiret and then Crédit Agricole
de l'Île de France, where he exercised or supervised
various retail banking business activities.
He then joined Caisse Nationale du Crédit Agricole,
first as Deputy General Manager (1993-1999) and later
as Chief Executive Officer (1999-2005). In that capacity,
he was responsible for the public offering of Crédit
Agricole SA (2001) and the acquisition and integration
of Crédit Lyonnais in Crédit Agricole group.
He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Foncière des Régions.
The Board of Directors of Danone appointed Jean
LAURENT as Chairman of the Nomination and
Compensation Committee on April 28, 2011 and Lead
Independent Director on February 18, 2013.
Positions and responsibilities as of December 31, 2015
(a)
Position
Company
Country
Director (term of office
from February 10, 2005
to the end of the
Shareholders' Meeting
to approve the 2017
financial statements)
Chairman and mem-
ber of the Board of
Directors' Nomination
and
Compensation
Committee (since April
28, 2011 and April 22,
2005, respectively)
Lead Independent
Director (since
February 18, 2013)
DANONE SA
(b)
France
Chairman of the Board
of Directors Member
of the Strategy and
Investments Committee
FONCIÈRE DES RÉGIONS SA
(b)
France
Vice-Chairman of the
Supervisory Board
Chairman of the Audit
Committee Member of
the Finance Committee
EURAZEO SA
(b)
France
Director
BENI STABILI
(a)
Italy
(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
Chairman and member
of the Board
of Directors' Social
Responsibility
Committee
DANONE SA
(a)
France
Director
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE EGYPT SAE
Egypt
Member of the
Supervisory Board
M6 SA (MÉTROPOLE TÉLÉVISION)
(a)
France
Member of the Audit
Committee
Member of the Board
of Directors
UNIGRAINS SA
France
Position
Associations/Foundations/Other
Country
Chairman
PÔLE DE COMPÉTITIVITÉ
“FINANCE INNOVATION” (Association)
France
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
FONDATION INSTITUT EUROPLACE
DE FINANCE
France
(a) Listed company.