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Corporate Governance
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Industrie; General Manager of Adoval, Maremma and
Serole.
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five
years: Chairman of the Management Board of Pinault-
Printemps-Redoute; Chairman of the Supervisory Boards
of France Printemps, Conforama Holding, Guilbert SA, and
Redcats; Member of the Supervisory Boards of Yves Saint-
Laurent Parfum, Boucheron Holding and PPR Interactive
(PPR’s permanent representative); Director of Schneider
Electric SA, Rexel and PPR Asia; Tennessee’s permanent
representative on the Board of Directors of Bouygues;
General Manager of Serole.
Expertise and experience
After graduating from France’s Ecole Nationale d’Admin-
istration, Serge Weinberg held several positions in the civil
service and ministerial offices. He then served as Chief
Operating Officer of French television channel FR3, Chief
Executive Officer and then Chairman of the Management
Board of Havas Tourisme, and Managing Director of
Banque Pallas Finance. In 1990, Serge Weinberg joined
what would become Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR)
when he became Chief Executive of CFAO. Within PPR,
he served as Chairman of Rexel (formerly CDME), an elec-
trical equipment distributor. In 1995, he was appointed
Chairman of the PPR Management Board, a position he
held until early 2005. In March 2005, he founded Weinberg
Capital Partners, a company that manages an investment
fund specialized in leveraged buyouts. In 2006, he was ap-
pointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Accor.
Members of
the Supervisory Board
Alain Burq
Other directorships and functions
in French or foreign companies
 Currently: Member of the Supervisory Boards of
Schneider Electric SA and the "Schneider Actionnariat"
corporate mutual fund; responsible for special projects at
Schneider Electric’s Finance Department.
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five
years: Director of Schneider Electric SA and Chairman
of Ordosoftware, a Schneider Electric subsidiary.
Expertise and experience
A graduate of Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris,
Alain Burq also has an MBA from the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania. After initial experience in
the energy industry, with Total in Germany and GDF in Iran,
Mr. Burq joined Schneider Electric subsidiary Spie Batig-
nolles in 1982, where he held various positions until 1998,
when he moved to Schneider Electric. He is currently in
charge of managing the parent company’s assets and lia-
bilities within the Finance Department.
Age: 54
Business address:
Schneider Electric Industries SAS, 89 bd Franklin
Roosevelt – 92500 Rueil Malmaison, France
1,738 Schneider Electric SA shares (1)
First elected: 2000 / Term ends: 2008
Gérard de La Martinière*
Other directorships and functions
in French or foreign companies
 Currently: Member of the Supervisory Board of
Schneider Electric SA; Chairman of Fédération Française
des Sociétés d'Assurances (F.F.S.A) and of the European
Insurance Committee (CEA); Director of Air Liquide and
of Banque d’Orsay.
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five
years: Member of the Management Board of AXA; Direc-
tor of Schneider Electric SA; Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Finaxa; Director of Crédit Lyonnais; Director of
various AXA subsidiaries, including Compagnie Financière
de Paris and Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France
(ANF); Chairman of the Board of Directors of LCH Clear-
net Group Ltd., London; Member of the Supervisory
Boards of Air Liquide and European Financial Reporting
Advisory Group (EFRAG).
Expertise and experience
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale
d'Administration, Gérard de La Martinière held several po-
sitions in the French Finance Ministry before serving as
Secretary General of Commission des Opérations de
Bourse and General Manager of Société des Bourses
Françaises. In 1989, he joined AXA, where he was ap-
pointed Executive Vice-President, Holding Companies and
Corporate Functions in 1993, member of the Management
Board in 1997 and Executive Vice-President, Finance,
Budget Control and Strategy in 2000. He left AXA in 2003
to become Chairman of Fédération Française des Sociétés
d'Assurances (F.F.S.A).
René Barbier de La Serre*
Other directorships and functions
in French or foreign companies
 Currently: Member of the Supervisory Board of
Schneider Electric SA; Director of Nord-Est, Sanofi-
Aventis, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute and Harwanne
Compagnie de Participations Industrielles et Financières
S.A. (Geneva); Member of the Supervisory Boards of
Compagnie Financière Saint-Honoré, La Compagnie
Financière Edmond de Rothschild Banque and Euronext
NV (Amsterdam); Non-voting director of Fimalac; Chair-
man of the consultative committee on governance at
Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
Age: 64
Business address:
Fédération Française des Assurances, 26 Boulevard
Haussmann - 75008 Paris, France
3,176 Schneider Electric SA shares
First elected: 1998 / Term ends: 2010
Age: 67
Business address: Compagnie Financière
Edmond de Rotchshild, 47 Rue Faubourg
Saint-Honoré – 75008 Paris, France
2,000 Schneider Electric SA shares
First elected: 2002 / Term ends: 2008