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1152011 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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SUPERVISORY BOARD
Serge Weinberg*
Age: 60
Business address:
Weinberg Capital Partners
20, rue Quentin Bauchart – 75008 Paris – France
1,000 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2005/Term ends: 2014
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA;
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sanofi ; Chairman of
Weinberg Capital Partners, Financière Piasa and Piasa Holding,
Piasa and VL Holding, Alret and Maremma; member of the
Supervisory Committee of Financière BFSA; Vice-Chairman and
Director of Financière Poinsétia and Financière Sasa; member
of the Supervisory Board of Alfi na; Permanent representative
of Weinberg Capital Partners; Director on the Board of Alliance
Industrie and Sasa Industrie; Chairman of Corum (Switzerland).
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi veyears:
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schneider
ElectricSA (from May2006 to May2010); Chairman of the Board
of Directors of Accor (January2006 to February2009); Director
of Alliance Industrie (from October2006 to November2008), of
Road Holding (from March2007 to May2008) and Rasec (from
February2006 to January2010); member of the Management
Board of Pharma Omnium International (from June 2006 to
January2010); Director of FNAC (from July1995 to May2010), of
Rothschild Concordia SAS (from March2008 to October2010),
of Rothschild & Cie (from June2005 to October2010), of the
Gucci Group (from March1999 to April2010).
Experience and qualifi cations
After graduating from France’s École Nationale d’Administration,
Serge Weinberg held several positions in the French civil service
and ministerial offi ces. He then served as Deputy Vice-President
of FR3, Executive Vice-President and then Chairman of the
Management Board of Havas Tourisme, Director of Pallas Finance.
And then in 1990 joined what is now the Pinault-Printemps-
Redoute Group (PPR) as Executive Vice-Chairman of Compagnie
française de l’Afrique occidentale (CFAO). Within this group,
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 specialised in leveraged buyouts and
real estate. From 2006 to 2009, he was Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Accor. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Sanofi since May2010.
Non-voting member
MrClaude Bébéar
Age: 76
Business address:
GIE AXA
25, avenue Matignon – 75008 Paris – France
528 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2004/Term ends: 2012
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Non-voting member of Schneider ElectricSA;
Director of AXA Assurances Vie Mutuelle, AXA Assurances IARD
Mutuelle and BNP-Paribas; member of the Supervisory Board
of Vivendi.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi veyears:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AXA, Chairman and
Director of various AXA subsidiaries, including AXA Financial;
Chairman and Executive Vice-President of Finaxa.
Experience and qualifi cations
A graduate of École Polytechnique, Claude Bébéar joined Groupe
Ancienne Mutuelle in 1958, the mutual insurance company
that would become Mutuelles Unies, then AXA in 1985. He was
appointed Chairman and Executive Vice-President of the Company
in 1975.
From late 1996, when AXA merged with UAP, until 2000,
Claude Bébéar served as Chairman of AXA’s Management
Board and Chairman of its Executive Committee. In 2000 he was
appointed Chairman of the AXA Supervisory Board. Mr Bébéar
resigned as Chairman of the Supervisory Board in April 2008 to
become Honorary Chairman of AXA.
* An independent member of the Supervisory Board within the meaning of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate governance code for listed companies.
Nota: in bold type, those companies are listed on a regulated market.