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3CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS**
G.Richard Thoman* Serge Weinberg*
Age: 69 Age: 62
Business address: Business address:
Corporate Perspectives, LLC Weinberg Capital Partners
485 Park Avenue 20, rue Quentin Bauchart
New York NY 10022, USA 75008 Paris, France
1,000 Schneider ElectricSA shares 1,144 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2007/Term ends: 2014 First appointed: 2005/Term ends: 2014
Directorships and other functions Directorships and other functions
Currently:
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Currently:
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Director of Schneider ElectricSA. Director of Schneider ElectricSA.
Other directorships or functions:
–Other directorships at a listed company: –
Managing Partner of Corporate Perspectives (an American Chairman of the board of directors for Sanofi.
strategy consulting firm); member of the board of Advisors Other directorships or functions:
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of INSEAD, the French American Foundation, the Americas
Chairman of Weinberg Capital Partners, Financière Piasa and
Society, the Council of the Americas, Committee for
Piasa Holding; Director of Piasa, manager of Alret and
Economic Development, McGill University School of
Maremma; member of the Supervisory Committee of
Management, the Fletcher School and the heritage
Financière BFSA; Vice-chairman and Director of Financière
committee of the Institut des Hautes Études Internationales,
Sasa; Permanent representative of Weinberg Capital Partners
“IHEID” (Geneva); Adjunct Professor at Columbia University
on the board of Sasa Industrie; Director of Madrigall.
and the Fletcher School; member of the Trilateral
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five years:
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Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations; Business
Member of the supervisory board of Schneider ElectricSA;
Executives for National Security, New York Economics Club.
Vice-chairman of the supervisory board of Schneider ElectricSA
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five years:
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(from May2006 to May2010); Chairman of the board of directors of
Accor (January2006 to February2009); Director of Alliance
Member of the supervisory board of Schneider ElectricSA.
Industrie (from October2006 to November2008), of Road Holding
Experience and qualifications
(from March2007 to May2008) and Rasec (from February2006 to
January2010); member of the management board of Pharma
G.Richard Thoman has a unique background. He was one of the
Omnium International (from June2006 to January2010); Director of
top five CEOs for four of the top Fortune 75companies, in three
FNAC (from July1995 to May2010), Director of Rothschild
different industries: financial services, food and beverage, and
ConcordiaSAS (from March2008 to October2010), Director of
technology.
Rothschild&Cie (from June2005 to October 2010), Director of the
MrThoman began his career at Citibank after receiving his BA from
Gucci Group (from March1999 to April2010), member of the
McGill University in Montreal and MA, MALD and PhD from the
supervisory board of Alfina (from February2010 to December2011),
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy which resulted from a
Permanent Representative of Weinberg Capital Partners, Director on
partnership between Tufts University and Harvard. He also
the board of Alliance Industrie (from December2008 to
graduated from the Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva. After
October2011), Director of Financière Poinsétia (from October2006
working with Exxon Finance and McKinsey, he became Chairman
to October2011); Director of VL Holding (April2007 to April2010);
and co-Executive Vice-president of American Express Travel
Chairman of Corum (Switzerland) (from July2008 to January2013).
Related Services. In1992, he was appointed Chairman and
Experience and qualifications
Executive Vice-president of Nabisco International. In1993, he
joined IBM as Senior Vice-president, Personal Systems Group,
After graduating from France’s École nationale d’administration,
later becoming Financial Director. In 1997, he joined the Xerox
Serge Weinberg held several positions in the French civil service and
Group. He served as Chairman and Executive Vice-president of
ministerial offices. He then served as Deputy Vice-president of FR3,
Xerox from April1999 to May2000. MrThoman is currently
Executive Vice-president and then Chairman of the management
Managing Partner of Corporate Perspectives and is on the faculty
board of Havas Tourisme, Director of Pallas Finance. And then
of several US universities.
in1990, he joined what is now the Pinault-Printemps-Redoute Group
(PPR) as Executive Vice-chairman of the Compagnie française de
l’Afrique occidentale (CFAO). Within this Group, he served as
Chairman of Rexel (an electrical supplies distribution company,
formerly CDME). 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 Chairman of the board of
directors of Accor. He has been Chairman of the board of directors
of Sanofi since May2010.
Note: bold indicates the names of companies listed on a regulated market.
* An Independent Director within the meaning of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate governance code for listed companies.
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