FOUDING CHAIMEN
Frédéric Lescure †
Henri Lescure †
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Emmanuel Lescure
CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Thierry de La Tour d’Artaise
Member of the Founder group
Appointed 1999 - Expiration of term: 2008 (1)
Aged 53.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SEB SA since 2000.
Entered Groupe SEB in 1994, when he joined Calor, of which he became Chairman, and was appointed Deputy Chairman of SEB SA in 1999.
Board member of Club Méditerranée SA, Plastic Omnium and Legrand.
Permanent representative of Sofinaction on the Board of Lyonnaise de Banque.
Mandates in Groupe SEB companies (2).
Number of SEB shares held: 14,821 (of which 55 bare-owner shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years (excluding Groupe SEB companies): Board member of Siparex Associés.
BOARD MEMBERS
Tristan Boiteux
Member of the Founder group, member of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Appointed 2002 - Expiration of term: 2010.
Aged 45.
Having occupied various functions in Alcatel for 11 years, he has been with Gemalto for the last 7 years, where he is a Product manager after a commercial engineer fonction.
Member of the Advisory Board of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Number of SEB shares held: 33,558
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Damarys Braida
Member of the Founder group, member of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT
Appointed 2001 - Expiration of term: 2009
Aged 40.
Head of L’Oréal hair colour R&D laboratory.
Joint Manager of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT. Vice-President of VENELLE PLUS
Number of SEB shares held: 56,583 bare-owner shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Pascal Castres Saint Martin
Independent Director
Appointed 2001 - Expiration of term: 2009
Aged 72.
Having spent 15 years in the Indosuez Group, he joined L’Oréal in 1979, where he ended his career as Vice Chaiman in charge of Administration and Finance, and Deputy General Manager.
Chairman of the Mutual Fund, Le Portefeuille Diversifié.
Board member of Fimalac SA.
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of GML.
Number of SEB shares held: 385
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Board member of Sanofi/Synthelabo.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Arc-International S.G.D.I. holding company
Norbert Dentressangle
Independent Director
Appointed 2002 - Expiration of term: 2010
Aged 53.
In 1979, founded Groupe Norbert Dentressangle, specialized in transport and logistics – of which he was Chairman until 1998, and now presides its Supervisory Board. Since its creation in 1988, he has also been Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Financière Norbert Dentressangle, a family holding company which, in addition to its majority holding in Groupe Norbert Dentressangle, also holds stakes in real estate, industrial and business services companies.
General Manager of Général de Sofade (SAS).
Chairman of La Financière de Cuzieu (SAS).
Chairman of ND Investissements (SAS)
Member of the Supervisory Board of AXA.
Board member of Sogebail.
Number of SEB shares held: 1,650
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Board member of Egnatia and Siparex Croissance
Permanent representative of Société Financière Norbert Dentressangle
Board member of Via Location and of Financière Egnatia.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Emin Leydier (SAS) and of Finaixam.
Philippe Desmarescaux
Independent Director
Appointed 1996 - Expiration of term: 2010
Aged 69.
Former General Manager, Groupe Rhône-Poulenc.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eurotab.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Auriga Partner.
Chairman of La Fondation Scientifique de Lyon et du Sud-Est.
Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of CPE.
Co-Chairman of Fondation Biovision – Académie des Sciences.
Number of SEB shares held: 1,782
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Board member of Therascope AG.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Innate Pharma.
FÉDÉRACTIVE
Appointed 2005 (co-opted by the Board meeting of 16 December 2005)
Expiration of term: 2010
Shareholder investment company, represented by its Chairman, Pascal Girardot, member of the Founder group.
Pascal Girardot, aged 52, is a member of the Institute of Actuaries.
After 15 years in financial markets and financial engineering with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations as a Financial Markets Manager, and with the CPR as Risk Manager responsible for its New York operations, he has been, since 1997, Founder-Chairman of Certual, which is specialized in financial engineering.
Former Chairman of the Obligatory Standards Committee advising the French Treasury.
Board member of Gaggione SA and Babylone SA and of NewCore S.A.
Number of shares held by FÉDÉRACTIVE: 3,252,509 (of which 3,252,508 usufruit shares)
Other mandates and functions exercised by FÉDÉRACTIVE in the last 5 years: none.
Hubert Fèvre
Member of the Founder group, member of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Appointed 2003 - Expiration of term: 211
Aged 43.
Chartered accountant.
Based in London, he has worked in financial functions for the folowing grous: Sonatrach Petroleum Corporation, VSNL International, Addax et Oryx and Finacor.
Member of the Advisory Board of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Number of SEB shares held: 180,153 (of which 167,023 bare-owner shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Société Foncière, Financière et de Participations - FFP
Appointed: 2005 - Expiration of term: 2009
A holding company listed on the Paris stock exchange and majority-held by the Peugeot family group, FFP is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Immobilière Dassault SA, IDI S.C.A. and Zodiac SA. It also holds the chairmanship of Société Financière Guiraud SAS, and manages the real estate companies SCI FFF-Les Grésillons, SCI Marne-FFP and SCI Valmy-FFP.
FFP is represented by Christian Peugeot, aged 54, a graduate of the France’s Hautes Etudes Commerciales, whose entire career has been within Groupe PSA. Marketing and Quality Director for Peugeot from 1998 to 2005, he is today Director of Communications and Strategy of Marque d'Automobiles Peugeot.
Number of SEB shares held by FFP: 857,337
Other mandates and functions exercised by FFP in the last 5 years:
Board member of Marco Polo Investissements S.A.
Jacques Gairard
Member of the Founder group, member of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Appointed 1976 - Expiration of term: 2011
Aged 68.
Entered Groupe SEB in 1967. He was appointed General Manager of SEB SA in 1976, Deputy Chairman in 1988, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1990 to 2000.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Soparind SCA.
Board member of Bongrain SA.
Board member of Maison Rouge, contemporary art foundation.
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Number of SEB shares held: 56,550.
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Siparex Associés.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Groupe Norbert Dentressangle.
Philippe Lenain
Independent Director
Appointed 2000 - Expiration of term: 2008 (1)
Aged 71.
Former Deputy Chairman, General Manager and Board member of the Danone Group.
Number of SEB shares held: 550
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Board member of Carlson Wagons Lits France. Nord Est and Eco-Emballages.
Antoine Lescure
Member of the Founder group, member of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Appointed 1999 - Expiration of term: 2011
Aged 36.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jomini Participations.
Vice-President of Achipelago Publishing
Number of SEB shares held: 75,992
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years: none.
Frédéric Lescure
Member of the Founder group, member of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Appointed: 2005 - Expiration of term: 2009
Aged 47
A graduate of Harvard University, Frédéric Lescure is Chairman of Groupe Méaban, specialized in surface treatment.
Chairman of Socomor GmbH (Germany), Socomor SA (Spain) and Socomor Ltd (England), 7 d’Armor Spzoo (Poland) and of Groupement des Fédérations Industrielles Bretagne Bretagne (Groupement des Fédérations Industrielles Bretagne).
Board member of Magchem (Canada) and CCB Développement (France).
Number of SEB shares held: 21,954 (of which 19,726 bare-owner shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Vice-Chairman of UIC Ouest Atlantique.
VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT
Member of the Founder group.
Appointed: 1998 - Expiration of term: 2008(1)
VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT is a family company formed in 1997, represented by Olivier Roclore.
After 6 years as Legal Affairs Manager with CAD software company Cisigraph, Olivier Roclore, aged 53, has been Legal and Finance Director for Groupe Ortec since 1992.
Chairman of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Number of SEB shares held by VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT: 2,219,997 (of which 2,219,996 usufruit shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years: none.
Jérôme Wittlin
Member of the Founder group, member of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Appointed: 2004 - Expiration of term: 2008(1)
Aged 48
Jérôme Wittlin began his career with Groupe Crédit Lyonnais, notably as Director of Clinvest (a subsidiary specialized in mergers and acquisitions), and from 2004 was Executive Director of the Investment Banking Department of Calyon, a financial and investment bank in the Crédit Agricole Group.
Since 2006, he is Executive Director of the Private Wealth Management Division of Goldman Sachs in France.
Joint Manager of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Board member of Trajectoire.
Number of SEB shares held: 2,046 (of which 110 bare-owner shares).
Other mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
At 31 December 2007, directors held 37.91% of share capital and 49.86% of voting rights.
Each Board member is required to hold a number of shares in the SEB SA nominal share register equivalent to about 2 years of attendance fees.
(1) Renewal to be proposed at the AGM of 13 May 2008.
(2) Mandates of Thierry de La Tour d’Artaise in Groupe SEB companies: Chairman of Seb Internationale; Board member of Supor (China) |