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1112011 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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SUPERVISORY BOARD
MrGérard de La Martinière*
Age: 68
Business address:
18, allée du Cloître – 78170 La Celle-Saint-Cloud - France
6,856 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 1998/Term ends: 2013
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA;
Director of Air Liquide; member of the Supervisory Board
of European Financial Reporting Advisory Group “EFRAG”
(aBelgian law association); Director of Standard & Poor’s Credit
Market Services France SAS; Director of Allo Finance; Chairman
of the Managing Committee of Charte du Don en Confi ance (a
charity within the meaning of the 1901 French law); member of
the Haut Conseil de la Vie Associative.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi veyears:
Chairman of Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Assurances
(FFSA) and Chairman of Comité européen des Assurances
(CEA); Vice-Chairman of Comité européen des Assurances
(CEA); member of the Supervisory Board of Air Liquide; Director
of Banqued’Orsay.
Experience and qualifi cations
A graduate of École Polytechnique and École Nationale
d’Administration, Gérard de La Martinière held several positions 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 appointed Executive Vice-President for Holding Companies
and Corporate Functions in 1993, member of the Management
Board in 1997 and Executive Vice-President of Finance, Budget
Control and Strategy in 2000. He left the AXA Group in 2003 to
become Chairman of the Fédération Française des Sociétés
d’Assurances (FFSA), a post he held until September2008.
MrXavier Fontanet*
Age: 63
Business address:
3, rue Charles Lamoureux – 75016 Paris - France
First appointed: 2011/Term ends: 2016
Directorships and other functions
•Currently**:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA;
Director of Essilor, L’Oréal and Crédit Agricole SA.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi veyears:
CEO of Essilor International; Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Essilor International Director of the Fonds S tratégique
d’Investissement (F S I); President of EOA Holding Co. Inc. (USA),
Nikon and Essilor Joint Research Center Co Ltd (Japan); Director
of Nikon-Essilor Co. Ltd (Japan), Nikon and Essilor Joint Research
Center Co Ltd (Japan), Essilor of America Inc. (USA), Transitions
Optical Inc. (USA), EOA Holding Co, Inc. (USA), Shanghai Essilor
Optical Company Ltd (China), Transitions Optical Holdings B.V.
(Netherlands), Essilor Manufacturing India Private Ltd (India),
Essilor India PVT Ltd (India), Essilor Amico L.L.C. (United Arab
Emirates); Permanent representative of Essilor International on
the Board of Directors of the Association Nationale des Sociétés
par Actions (Ansa)
Experience and qualifi cations
A graduate of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Xavier Fontanet began his
career as a Vice-President at the Boston Consulting Group. Hewas
General Manager forBénéteau beginning in 1981. Between 1986
and 1991, he was in charge of central management of catering
for the Wagons-Lits group. In 1991, he joined Essilor as Executive
Vice-President and then served as CEO from 1996 to 2009 and
Chairman of the Board of Directors until the beginning of 2012.
Nota: in bold type, those companies are listed on a regulated market.
* An independent member of the Supervisory Board within the meaning of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate governance code for listed companies.
** Situation as of January2, 2012.