Investment and Development Committee

Composed of the Executive Board, two Executive Vice-Presidents and two Managing Directors — the CEO of Wendel Luxembourg being Secretary and permanent participant — the Investment and Development Committee meets at least every two weeks and more frequently if needed, to work on selecting and developing the Group’s investments. It examines plans to acquire and divest assets and Wendel’s investment policy in order to formulate recommendations to the decision-making bodies.

Laurent Mignon

Group CEO

Chairman of Bureau Veritas’ Board of Directors

David Darmon

Member of the Executive Board, Group Deputy CEO

Chairman of Scalian’s Board of Directors

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Jérôme Michiels

Executive Vice-President
Director of Wendel Growth

Board Member of Bureau Veritas and Scalian

Adam Reinmann

Managing Director
CEO of Wendel North America

Chairman of the Board of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

Harper Mates

Managing Director

Board Member of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

Member of Wendel’s Supervisory Board as employee representative

Claude de Raismes

Secretary of the Investment and Development Committee
CEO of Wendel Luxembourg

Laurent Mignon

Group CEO

Chairman of Bureau Veritas’ Board of Directors

Laurent Mignon is Wendel’s Group CEO since December 2^nd, 2022, and Chairman of the Board of Bureau Veritas since June 22^nd, 2023.

Before joining Wendel, Laurent Mignon served at Groupe BPCE from 2009 to 2022, where he was Chief Executive Officer of Natixis and a member of the Executive Management Committee of BPCE (including a member of the Management Board since 2013) from 2009 to May 2018, and Chairman of the Executive Board of Groupe BPCE from May 2018 to December 2022. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Natixis, Director of CNP Assurances and Censor of Fimalac.

Laurent Mignon worked for Banque lndosuez for over ten years, first in capital markets, then in corporate and investment banking. In 1996, he joined Banque Schroders in London, then AGF (Assurances Générales de France) in 1997 as Chief Financial Officer. He was appointed to the AGF Executive Committee in 1998, then as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Banque AGF, AGF Asset Management and AGF lmmobilier in 2002, then in charge of life insurance and financial services and credit insurance in 2003. In 2006, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Managing Partner at Oddo & Cie.

In addition to his functions within the Wendel Group, Laurent Mignon sits on the Board of Directors of LVMH. He is a non-voting member of Oddo BHF.

Laurent graduated from HEC in 1986 and from the Stanford Executive Program.

David Darmon

Member of the Executive Board, Group Deputy CEO

Chairman of Scalian’s Board of Directors

David Darmon is Wendel’s Group Deputy CEO since September 9^th 2019. He joined Wendel in 2005.

In December 2020, Wendel’s Supervisory Board decided to reappoint the Executive Board for a period of four years from April 7, 2021 to April 6, 2025.

David has led numerous investments for the Group. He participated in the investment and oversight of companies such as Allied Universal, CSP Technologies, Deutsch Group, and Stallergenes. David also initiated several investments in the technology sector.

David opened the New York office (Wendel North America), which he led from 2013 until September 2019, when he joined the Executive Board. From 2013 to 2019, Wendel invested approximately $1 billion in the United States.

David previously served as Wendel’s corporate Secretary to the Supervisory Board.

Before joining Wendel, David was a Director of Apax Partners in Paris, where he specialized in LBO transactions for six years. He began his career in M&A at Goldman Sachs in London.

He is a graduate of ESSEC and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Jérôme Michiels

Executive Vice-President
Director of Wendel Growth

Board Member of Bureau Veritas and Scalian

Jérôme Michiels is the Group’s Executive Vice-President, responsible for structuring Wendel’s third-party asset management business. He is also Director of Wendel Growth, member of Wendel’s Management Committee and a voting member of the Investment and Development Committee. He is a Board Member of Bureau Veritas and Scalian.

Jérôme joined Wendel at the end of 2006 as Investment Director and was promoted to Director in January 2010. He was appointed Managing Director in January 2012 and joined the Investment Committee at this date. On October 1, 2015, Jérôme was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Wendel Group and also joined the Management Committee. On september 11, 2019, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

From 2002 to 2006, he was an Associate at the investment fund BC Partners. Prior to that, he worked as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group from 1999 to 2002, carrying out strategic missions in Europe, particularly in the fields of distribution, transportation, telecommunications and financial services.

Jérôme is a graduate from HEC.

Adam Reinmann

Managing Director
CEO of Wendel North America

Chairman of the Board of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

Adam Reinmann is the CEO and founding member of Wendel’s New York office, which he helped open in 2013. Adam currently serves as a member of Wendel’s Investment Committee and as Chairman of the Board for ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute, and previously as a Board member for CSP Technologies, Inc. and Allied Universal.

Prior to joining Wendel, Adam worked at Onex Corporation where he was actively involved in several successful private equity investments and also served as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Onex-controlled Celestia, Inc.

Adam began his career at JPMorgan’s investment banking group in New York.

Adam has a B.S. in Management from Binghamton University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Harper Mates

Managing Director

Board Member of ACAMS and Crisis Prevention Institute

Member of Wendel’s Supervisory Board as employee representative

Harper Mates is a Managing Director. She is a member of the Investment and Development Committee. Harper is also member of Wendel’s Supervisory Board as an employee representative and is a Board Member of ACAMS and the Crisis Prevention Institute. She joined Wendel in 2015.

Prior to joining the Wendel New York office, Harper was a Vice President at MidOcean Partners, a US-based middle market private equity firm where she was responsible for investments in the business services, media and consumer services sectors.

She began her career at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst and then Citi Private Equity as an Associate.

Harper holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Claude de Raismes

Secretary of the Investment and Development Committee
CEO of Wendel Luxembourg

Claude de Raismes is CEO of Wendel Luxembourg. He is the Secretary of the Investment and Development Committee. He joined the Group in 2009 as an analyst. He then became an associate and investment manager. He has been co-Chairman of Wendel Luxembourg since March 1, 2019 and was appointed CEO in January 1, 2020.

Before joining Wendel, Claude worked as an analyst at UBS Investment Bank from 2007 to 2009 where he notably participated in the financing of leveraged buyouts (LBO). Before, he had experience in financial auditing at Deloitte in Paris.

Claude is a graduate of HEC business school and holds a master’s degree in Modern Literature and a master’s degree in Econometrics.

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