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2009 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 77
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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SUPERVISORY BOARD
Other directorships and functions in French or foreign
companies
•Currently:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schneider Electric SA ;
Member of the Supervisory Boards of Vivendi and Norbert
Dentressangle; director of AXA Assurances IARD Mutuelle;
Non-voting director of Fimalac and Tajan; Chairman of the Board
of directors of Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue; Chairman
of Fondation pour le Droit Continental; Member of Conseil des
Prélèvements Obligatoires; Member of the Steering Committee
of Institut de l’Entreprise; director of Association Nationale
des Sociétés par Actions; Chairman of Institut Telémaque;
Vice Chairman and Treasurer of Institut Montaigne; Member
of CODICE; director of Solidarités Actives, Planet Finance and
Fondation Entreprendre.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of Schneider Electric SA;
Chairman of Schneider Electric Industries SAS, member of the
Supervisory Board of AXA, director of a number of Schneider
Electric subsidiaries; director of Vivendi Universal, Finaxa and
various AXA subsidiaries.
Expertise and experience
A graduate of Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Henri Lachmann
began his career in 1963 with Arthur Andersen. In 1970, he joined
Compagnie Industrielle et Financière de Pompey. In 1971 he
became Chief Executive Offi cer of Financière Strafor (later Strafor
Facom), where from 1981 to 1997 he served as Chairman and Chief
Executive Offi cer. He was elected to the Schneider Electric SA Board
of directors in 1996 and was appointed Chairman on February 25,
1999. On May 3, 2006, he became Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Schneider Electric SA.
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Serge Weinberg*
Age: 59
Business address:
Weinberg Capital Partners
20, rue Quentin-Bauchart – 75008 Paris, France
500 Schneider Electric SA shares
First elected: 2005/Term ends: 2010
Other directorships and functions in French or foreign
companies
•Currently:
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schneider Electric
SA; Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of Weinberg Capital
Partners; Vice Chairman and director of Financières SASA;
Member of the Supervisory Board of Gucci Group; director of
FNAC, RASEC (since February2006), Team Partners Group (since
November 20, 2006), Financière Poinsetia (since September 11,
2006), VL Holding and SASA Industrie; General Manager of Adoval
and Maremma.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
Chairman of the Board of directors of Accor; 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, PPR Asia and Alliance Industrie;
Tennessee’s permanent representative on the Board of directors
of Bouygues; General Manager of Serole.
Expertise and experience
After graduating from France’s École Nationale d’Administration,
Serge Weinberg held several positions in the civil service and
ministerial offi ces. He then served as Chief Operating Offi cer of French
television channel FR3, Chief Executive Offi cer and then Chairman of
the Management Board of Havas Tourisme, and Managing D irector
of 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 electrical 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 and real estate. From 2006 to 2009, he was
appointed Chairman of the Board of directors of Accor.
Members of the Supervisory Board
Léo Apotheker *
Age: 56
Business address:
SAP
Immeuble Capital 8 – 32,rue de Monceau
75008 Paris, France
250 Schneider Electric SA shares
First elected: 2007/Term ends: 2012
Other directorships and functions in French or foreign
companies
•Currently:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider Electric SA;
CEO of SAP AG; Member of the Supervisory Board of AXA.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
Non-voting director of Schneider Electric SA; director of Ginger
SA, EnigmaInc. (USA), SAP AmericaInc. (USA), SAP Global
MarketingInc. (USA), SAP Asia Pte. Ltd (Singapore), SAP Japan
Co. Ltd (Japan), SAP France SA, SAP Italia Sistemi, applicazioni,
prodotti in data processing s.p.a. (Italy), SAP Hellas Systems
Application and Data Processing SA (Greece) and SAP (Beijing)
Software System Co. Ltd (China), SAP Manage Ltd (Israel), SAP
Finland Oy (Finland) and SAP Denmark A/S (Denmark).
Expertise and experience
Léo Apotheker began his career in 1978 in management control after
graduating with a degree in international relations and economics
from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then held management
Note: Boldface type indicates companies whose shares trade on a regulated market.
* Independent member according to the defi nition contained in the AFEP-MEDEF corporate governance guidelines.