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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS**
Non-voting member
Experience and qualifications
A graduate of the École Polytechnique, Claude Bébéar joined
Claude Bébéar
Groupe Ancienne Mutuelle in 1958, the mutual insurance company
that would become Mutuelles Unies, then AXA in 1985. He was
Age: 78
appointed Chairman and CEO of the company in 1975.
From late 1996, when AXA merged with UAP, until2000, Claude
Business address:
GIE AXA
25, avenue Matignon
75008 Paris, France
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. Bébéar resigned as
Chairman of the supervisory board in April2008 to become
Honorary Chairman of AXA.
528 Schneider ElectricSA shares
First appointed: 2004/Term ends: 2014
Directorships and other functions
Honorary Chairman
Currently:
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Non-voting member of Schneider ElectricSA.
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Didier Pineau-Valencienne
Other functions at a listed company:
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Non-voting member of Vivendi.
Other directorships or functions:
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Director of AXA Assurances Vie Mutuelle; Chairman of the
Institut Montaigne and Honorary Chairman of
IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité.
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five years:
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Chairman of the supervisory board of AXA; Director of BNP
Paribas; member of the supervisory board of Vivendi;
Chairman of IMS-Entreprendre pour la Cité, Director AXA
Assurances IARD Mutuelle; non-voting member of the
supervisory board of Schneider Electric SA.
Proposal to the Annual Shareholder’s Meeting on the composition of the board
of directors
A proposal will be made to the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of December2001, in accordance with the AFEP/MEDEF code
May6, 2014 to renew the appointments which have reached will no longer be an independent director;
expiry, with the exception of the appointment of Serge Weinberg,
renewal of the appointment of Cathy Kopp for a term of 4(iii)
who does not want his appointment to be renewed. The Annual
years. MrsKopp is an independent director;
Shareholders’ Meeting is asked to approve the following
renewal of the appointment of Henri Lachmann for a term of(iv)
propositions:
2 years. MrLachmann is not an independent director;
renewal of the appointment of Noël Forgeard for a term of 2(i) renewal of the appointment of Rick Thoman for a term of 2(v)
years. MrForgeard is an independent director; years. MrThoman is an independent director.
renewal of the appointment of Willy Kissling for a term of 2
(ii)
After the renewals, the board will have a ratio of independent
years. MrKissling, who joined the board of directors in
directors of 64% and a female ratio of 28%.
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