FOUNDING CHAIRMEN
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: 2012
Aged 54.
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.
Number of SEB shares held: 104,463 (of which 165 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
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:
Chairman of Seb Internationale; Board member of Supor (China).
Expired 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 46.
Having occupied various functions in Alcatel for 11 years, he has been 7 years with Gemalto where, before being appointed Product Manager, he held the post of Commercial Engineer.
Number of SEB shares held: 101,310 (of which 98,295 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
Member of the Advisory Board of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Expired mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Advisory Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Damarys Braida
Member of the Founder group, member of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT
Appointed 2001 - Expiration of term: 2013
Aged 41.
Head of L’Oréal hair colour R&D laboratory.
Number of SEB shares held: 169,749 (of which 161,298 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
Chairperson of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Vice-President of VENELLE PLUS).
Expirated mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Norbert Dentressangle
Independent Director
Appointed 2002 - Expiration of term: 2010
Aged 54.
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 Chairman of Financière Norbert Dentressangle (SAS), 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.
Number of SEB shares held: 4,950
Other current mandates and functions:
Chairman of Financière Norbert Dentressangle (SAS)
Member of the Supervisory Board of Groupe Norbert Dentressangle
Chairman of La Financière de Cuzieu (SAS).
Chairman of ND Investissements (SAS)
General Manager of Sofade (SAS).
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Axa
Board member of Sogebail.
Expired mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Board of Directors or Supervisory Board of:
Finaixam
Emin Leydier (SAS)
Siparex Croissance
Egnatia
Permanent representative of Société Financière Norbert Dentressangle on the Board of Via Location.
Permanent representative of Société Financière Norbert Dentressangle on the Board of Financière Egnatia.
Philippe Desmarescaux
Independent Director
Appointed 1996 - Expiration of term: 2010
Aged 70.
Former General Manager, Groupe Rhône-Poulenc.
Number of SEB shares held: 5,346
Other current mandates and functions:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eurotab.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Auriga Partner.
Chairman of 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.
Expired 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 53, 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 CPR as Risk Manager responsible for its New York operations, he has been, since 1997, Founder-Chairman of Certual, specialized in financial engineering.
Former Chairman of the Obligatory Standards Committee advising the French Treasury.
Board member of Gaggione SA, Babylone SA and of NewCore S.A.
Number of shares held by FÉDÉRACTIVE: 9,834,320 (of which 9,834,317 usufruct shares)
Expired 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: 2011
Aged 44.
Chartered accountant. Based in Geneva, he is Financial Officer for Pasche Bank. Previously, in London, he held financial functions with the following groups: Sonatrach Petroleum Corporation, VSNL International, Addax & Oryx and Finacor.
Number of SEB shares held: 541,604 (of which 531,704 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
Member of the Advisory Board of FÉDÉRACTIVE.
Expired 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: 2013
A holding company listed on the Paris stock exchange and majority-held by the Peugeot family group.
FFP is represented by Christian Peugeot, aged 55, a graduate of France's Ecole des 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 Brand Strategy for Automobiles Peugeot.
Number of SEB shares held by FFP: 2,901,522.
Other current mandates and functions:
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 FFP-Les Grésillons, SCI Marne-FFP and SCI Valmy-FFP.
Expired 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 69.
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.
Number of SEB shares held: 173,650.
Other current mandates and functions:
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.
Expired 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: 2012
Aged 72.
Former Deputy Chairman, General Manager and Board member of the Danone Group.
Number of SEB shares held: 1,650
Expired 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 37.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jomini Participations.
Vice-President of Achipelago Publishing
Number of SEB shares held: 227,976 (of which 227,946 bare-owner shares).
Expired 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: 2013
Aged 48
A graduate of Harvard University, Frédéric Lescure is Chairman of Groupe Méaban, specialized in surface treatment.
Number of SEB shares held: 45,341 (of which 38,657 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
Chairman of Socomor GmbH (Germany), Socomor SA (Spain) and Socomor Ltd (England), 7 d’Armor Spzoo (Poland) and Groupement des Fédérations Industrielles Bretagne Bretagne.
Board member of Magchem (Canada) and CCB Développement (France).
Board member of EMC2 competitivity consultants.
Expirated 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: 2012
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 54, has been Legal and Finance Director for Groupe Ortec since 1992.
Number of SEB shares held by VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT: 6,664,494 (of which 6,659,988 usufruct shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
Chairman of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Expired mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
none.
Jean-Dominique Senard
Independent Director.
Appointment: 2009 - Expiration of term: 2013.
Aged 56.
Jean-Dominique Senard began his career in various posts of responsibility in finance and operations with Groupe Total, from September 1979 to September 1987, and then with Saint Gobain from 1987 to 1996.
From September 1996 to March 2001, he was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Groupe Péchiney Executive Council. He was head of Péchiney’s Primary Aluminium Division until 2004. As a member of Alcan’s Executive Committee, he was responsible for the integration of Péchiney, and served as President of
Péchiney SA.
Jean-Dominique Senard joined Michelin in March 2005 as Chief Financial Officer and a member of Michelin’s Executive Council.
In May 2007 became a Managing Partner of Groupe Michelin.
Jérôme Wittlin
Member of the Founder group, member of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Appointed: 2004 - Expiration of term: 2012
Aged 49
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 has been Executive Director of the Private Wealth Management Division of Goldman Sachs in France.
Number of SEB shares held: 6,338 (of which 330 bare-owner shares).
Other current mandates and functions:
General Manager of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
Board member of Trajectoire.
Expired mandates and functions exercised in the last 5 years:
Member of the Management Board of VENELLE INVESTISSEMENT.
At 31 December 2008, directors held 38.80% of share capital and 51.29% of voting rights.
Each Board member is required to hold a number of shares in the SEB SA nominal share register equivalent to about two years of attendance fees. |