Ernest-Antoine Seillière

Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and law graduate. Alumnus of the École nationale d’administration and the Harvard Center for International Affairs.
After serving as foreign affairs adviser and technical adviser to several ministers, he joined the Wendel Group in 1976, where he has held several positions, including those of CEO and Board member (1978-1987), then Chairman and CEO (1987-2002) of CGIP, Deputy CEO and Chairman of Marine- Wendel (1992-2002). After the merger of the two companies he was Chairman and CEO of WENDEL-Investissement, before becoming Chairman of the Supervisory Board in 2005. He is Honorary Chairman and director of SLPS, Supervisory Board of Oranje-Nassau, and a director of Legrand and Sofisamc. He is also a member of the Supervisory Boards of Bureau Veritas, Peugeot SA, Gras Savoye et Compagnie, Hermès International and a director of Sofi samc.
He was the President of Medef (French Employers’ Federation) from 1997 to 2005 and has been the President of Businesseurope since 2005.
He is an offi cer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor, the National Order of Merit, and a Commander of the Order of Oranje-Nassau of the Netherlands.
Age 70.

Guy de Wouters

Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
Belgian citizen.
Holds a doctorate in law and economics. Throughout a long career with the Royal Dutch/Shell group he held various executive positions in the energy and petrochemical sectors: He was successively legal director of Shell France, then Director, Shell Chemicals, and Chairman, Cie Chimique de la Méditerranée. He was appointed Chairman of Belgian Shell in 1974 and Director, Strategic Planning at the Group’s London head office until 1984. From 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the Executive Committee and then the Board of Directors of Société Générale de Belgique. He has chaired the Executive Committee of Tractebel and was the Société Générale de Belgique board appointee to several boards such as those of Electrafina, Sofina, Petrofina, Havas, RTL, and others.
He has been with the Wendel Group since 1985. He was Chairman of Oranje-Nassau up to 2000 and director of various subsidiaries including Carnaud Metalbox, Valeo, Capgemini, Stallergènes, etc. He is currently a Senior Advisor and member of the European Advisory Council of Lehman Brothers in London. In addition, he was also Chairman of Uniapac (International Union of Christian Business Executives) from 1993 to 1997. He is a member of the Board of the Fondation Médecins Sans Frontières and the Boards of Directors of the friends groups of various cultural organizations (centre Georges-Pompidou, Opéra de Paris, Festival d’automne, etc.).
He is a knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor, the Order of the Crown (Belgium) and officer of the Order of Leopold (Belgium).
Age 77.

Nicolas Celier

Engineering graduate from the Polytechnic Institute, Zurich. From 1968 to 1979 he worked at Sacilor as a department head and then as product head. He was Managing Director of Air Conditionné Airwell from 1980 to 1983, a Senior Manager of Lyonnaise des Eaux, Chairman and CEO of Unidel Sécurité and Chairman of Ventilation Industrielle et Minière, which later became ABB Fläkt, for whom he became country manager for France up to 1993.
Subsequently he held positions successively as CEO of Sultzer Infra SA, Development Director, Cofixel, CEO of Fabricom GmbH until 2004 and Chairman, Axima Réfrigération for Europe (between 2002 and 2004).
He currently holds appointments as a board director or corporate offi cer of several companies: FKO Invest BV (Netherlands), Solving International SA, Parkers Mussy SAS, Lamibois SAS, Oslo SA, Ices SAS and RSO SpA (Italy). He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Optimprocess SA and the Board of Cherche-Midi Participations SAS (since 2002).
Age 64.

Didier Cherpitel

Postgraduate degree from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris. He worked from 1970 to 1998 at J.P. Morgan in New York, Paris, Singapore, Brussels and London. He has been Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Guaranty Ltd in London, Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan France and Managing Director with responsibility for private banking activities in Europe.
After two years as Manager Director with responsibility for capital markets activities at Security Capital Group in London, he spent four years as General Secretary of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. He is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Atos Origin and a director of Fidelity International in Luxembourg. He is also Chairman of Managers sans frontières (Quebec), a member of the Fondation MSF France (since 2003), the Swiss Philanthropic Foundation (NGO in Geneva) (since 2004). He is also a director and the treasurer of François-Xavier Bagnoud International in Sion (since 2005) and the Fondation Mérieux in Lyon (since 2007).
Age 63.

Béatrice Dautresme

Graduate of the École nationale des langues orientales. She has spent her entire career at L’Oréal. After nine years as Executive Vice President of the Cosmetics division in the United States, she returned to France in 1989. She was Executive Vice-President International of Helena Rubinstein and has been a member of the Management Committee of L’Oréal since 2001 as Executive Vice-President in charge of Corporate Communications, External Affaires and Prospective. She is a member of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
Age 62.

Jean-Marc Janodet

Graduate of the ESCP. He has spent his entire career in the Wendel Group: he has been a Director and CEO of Marine-Wendel and Director and member of the Executive Committee responsible for fi nance at CGIP. He is Chairman of Sofisamc (Switzerland) and Trief Corporation (Luxembourg) and Director of Stallergènes. He is an officer of the National Order of Merit.
Age 73.

Edouard de l'Espée

Graduate of the ESCP. He began his career as a fi nancial analyst and portfolio manager in Geneva, London and Paris. In 1988 he was appointed manager of Praetor Global Bond, an international bond fund (best performing European fund over 10 years according to Standard & Poor’s in 2002), and he established Concorde Bank Ltd. Partner of Optigestion SA in Paris and independent manager in Geneva since 1991. He established Calypso Asset Management SA in 1999. He is a member of the Swiss Wealth Management Association, director and CEO of Calypso Asset Management (since 1999) and since 2004 has been a director of Praetor Sicav SA (Luxembourg), Concorde Asset Management (Barbados) and SLPS.
Age 59..

François de Mitry

Graduate of the Institut d’études politiques in Paris, Université de Paris-Dauphine (masters degree in management and post-graduate diploma in Finance) and Yale University. He began his career as an analyst and then was responsible for structured fi nance in relation to LBOs. He joined Intermediate Capital Group PLC (ICG) in 1997 and was appointed CEO and a member of the Board in 2003.le Conseil de surveillance d’Eisman GmbH.
He is the ICG representative on the Board of Directors of Picard Surgelés, Nocibé, SIA, Sebia, Rétif, Medi-Partenaires and Protection One. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EismanGmbH.
Age 42.

Grégoire Olivier

Graduate of the École polytechnique and appointed as Ingénieur en chef [des Mines]. MBA from the University of Chicago. He began his career at the French ministry of Industry and subsequently was a technical advisor to the Prime Minister. He joined the Péchiney group in 1991 where he was successively CEO of Aluminium de Grèce, Manager of American Can’s Chicago factory and Vice-President, Strategy at ANC. He then joined Alcatel where he was CEO of Saft. He was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of Sagem in 2001. In 2005 he was appointed a member of the Executive Board of Safran and Chairman and CEO of Sagem Communications. Since 2006 he has been with the Peugeot group as Chairman and CEO of Faurecia and subsequently as a member of the Managing Board of PSA Peugeot Citroën.
He is a knight of the National Order of Merit.
Age 47.

François de Wendel

Graduate of the Institut d’études politiques in Paris, masters degree in economics from the University of Paris and an MBA from Harvard University. He began his career with a number of senior management roles at Carnaud and Carnaud Metalbox. In 1992 he joined the Péchiney group where he was CEO of Aluminium de Grèce. From 1998 to 2005 he held executive management roles at Crown Cork, fi rstly as Senior Vice-President in charge of procurement for Europe, then as Executive Vice-President in charge of the Food Europe division. He is currently a Director of Burelle SA and SLPS and a member of the Supervisory Board of Massilly Holding (since 2007).
Age 59..