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2012 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC 115
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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SUPERVISORY BOARD
Ms.Betsy Atkins*
Age: 59
Business address:
BAJACORP
10 Edgewater Drive, Ste 10A
Coral Gables, FL 33133
1,000 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2011/Term ends: 2015
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA.
–Other directorships or functions at a listed company:
Member of the Board of Directors of Chicos FAS Inc. (USA),
Polycom Inc. (USA); member of the SAP Advisory Committee
(Germany ) .
–Other directorships
Member of Bazaarvoice (USA).
•Previous directorships and functions held in the past fi ve years:
Director of Towers Watson (USA), Reynolds American (USA),
SunPower Corp (USA), Vonage (USA); President and CEO of
Clear Standards, Inc. (USA); Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Vantrix (Canada).
Experience and qualifi cations
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts and Trinity
College Oxford, Betsy Atkins began her career co-founding several
successful high-tech and consumer companies including Ascend
Communications. In addition, she served as CEO and Chairman
of NCI from 1991 to 1993 and as CEO of Key Supercomputer
from1987 to1989.
Mr.Xavier Fontanet*
Age: 64
Business address:
3 Rue Charles Lamoureux
75016 Paris - France
1,000 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2011/Term ends: 2016
Directorships and other functions
•Currently:
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schneider ElectricSA.
–Other directorships at a listed company:
Director of Essilor and L’Oréal .
–Other directorships or functions:
Associate professor at HEC; member of the Board of Directors
of Ansa.
•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 stratégique
d’Investissement (F.S.I.); Director of Credit Agricole SA;
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, Mr.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.
Note: bold indicates the names of companies whose securities 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.