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2012 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC114
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
3SUPERVISORY BOARD
Composition of the Supervisory Board (as of December31, 2012)
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Mr.Henri Lachmann
Age: 74
Business address:
Schneider Electric
35, rue Joseph-Monier
92500 Rueil-Malmaison- France
93,202 (1) Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 1996/Term ends: 2014
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA.
–Other directorships or functions at a listed company:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Vivendi; member of
the Supervisory Board of groupe Norbert Dentressangle;
Director of Carmat; non-voting member of Fimalac.
–Other directorships and functions:
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Centre Chirurgical Marie
Lannelongue; Chairman of Fondation pour le Droit Continental;
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; Director of Planet Finance and Fondation
Entreprendre; Chairman of the Advisory Council of Campus
d’Excellence au Commissariat Général à l’Investissement
(Grand Emprunt); Director of the Steering Committee of
Proxinvest.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vivendi; member
of the Supervisory Board of AXA and AXA Assurances IARD
Mutuelle; non-voting member of Tajan; member of CODICE;
Director of Solidarités Actives.
Experience and qualifi cations
A graduate of Hautes études commerciales (HEC), Henri Lachmann
began his career in1963 with Arthur Andersen. In1970, he joined
Compagnie industrielle et fi nancière de Pompey. In 1971 he
became Executive Vice-President of Financière Strafor (later Strafor
Facom), where from 1981 to 1997 he served as CEO. 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
Mr.Léo Apotheker*
Age: 59
Business address:
Flat A, 15 Eaton Square
London SW1W 9DD - England
1,538 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2007/Term ends: 2016
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schneider
ElectricSA;
–Other directorships at a listed company:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Stéria.
–Other directorships or functions:
Chairman of the Board of Directors of KMS A.S. (Denmark),
Director of New E.A. (USA) and Intelius (USA); Member of the
Board and Strategy Committee of PlanetFinance.
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard; member of the Board
of Directors of Hewlett-Packard; CEO of SAP AG; Non-voting
member of Schneider Electric SA; Director of Ginger SA,
GTNexus (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 SpA (Italy), SAP Hellas Systems Application
and Data Processing SA (Greece), SAP (Beijing) Software System
Co., Ltd, (China), SAP Manage Ltd (Israel), SAP Finland Oy
(Finland) and SAP Danemark A/S (Denmark).
Experience and qualifi cations
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 and executive responsibilities in several IT fi rms
including SAP France and SAP Belgium, where he was CEO
between1988 and 1991. Mr.Apotheker was founding President
and Chief Operating Offi cer of ECsoft. In 1995, he returned to
SAP as Chairman of SAP France. After various appointments
within SAP as Regional Director, he was appointed in2002 as a
member of the Executive Committee and President of Customer
Solutions & Operations, then in 2007 as President CSO and
Deputy CEO of SAP AG and in2008 CEO of SAP AG. In2010, he
became CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard and served until
autumn2011.
* An independent member of the Supervisory Board within the meaning of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate governance code for listed companies.
Note: bold indicates the names of companies whose securities are listed on a regulated market.
(1) Directly or through the FCPE.