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3CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Directors
Betsy Atkins* Xavier Fontanet*
Age: 61 Age: 66
Business address: Business address:
BAJACORP, 10 Edgewater Drive, 3 rue Charles-Lamoureux
Ste 10ACoral Gables, FL 33133, USA 75016 Paris
1,000 Schneider ElectricSE shares 1,000 Schneider Electric SE shares
First appointed: 2011/Term ends: 2015 First appointed: 2011/Term ends: 2016
Directorships and other functions Directorships and other functions
Currently:
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Currently:
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Director of Schneider ElectricSE and member of the Strategy Director of Schneider Electric SE and Chairman of the Strategy
Committee. committee.
Other directorships or functions at listed company:
–Other directorships at a listed company: –
Governance Chair and member of the board of directors of Director of Essilor and L’Oréal.
Darden (USA); Compensation Chair and member of the Other directorships or functions:
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board of directors of Polycom Inc. (USA); member of the Associate professor at HEC; member of the board of
board of directors of HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (USA); directors of ANSA.
Chairman of SAP Advisory board;.
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five years:
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Other directorships or functions:
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Member of the supervisory board of Schneider Electric SA;
CEO of Baja LLC; member of ZocDoc Advisory board.
Chairman and CEO of Essilor International; Chairman of the
Previous directorships and functions held in the past five years:
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board of directors of Essilor International; Director of Crédit
Member of the supervisory board of Schneider Electric SA;Agricole SA and of the Fonds stratégique d’Investissement
member of the board of directors of Chico’s FAS Inc. (USA); (FSI); President of EOA Holding Co. Inc. (USA), Nikon and
SunPowerCorp. (USA), Vonage (USA), Wix (Israel), Ciber Essilor Joint Research Center Co Ltd (Japan); Director of
(USA); President and CEO of Clear Standards, Inc. (USA). Nikon-Essilor Co. Ltd (Japan), Nikon and Essilor Joint Research
Center Co Ltd (Japan), Essilor of America, Inc. (USA),
Expérience et qualifications
Transitions Optical Inc. (USA), EOA Holding Co., Inc. (USA),
After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Betsy Shanghai Essilor Optical Company Ltd (China), Transitions
Atkins began her career co-founding several successful high-tech Optical Holdings B.V. (Netherlands), Essilor Manufacturing India
and consumer companies, including Ascend Communications. In Private Ltd (India), Essilor India PVT Ltd (India), Essilor Amico
addition, she served as Chairman and CEO of Clear Standards LLC (United Arab Emirates); Permanent representative of Essilor
from 2008 – 2009, Chairman and CEO of NCI from1991 to1993 International on the board of directors of the Association
and as CEO of Key Supercomputer from1987 to1989. Nationale des Sociétés par Actions (ANSA).
Experience and qualifications
A graduate of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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
CEO and then served as Chairman and CEO from1996 to2009
and Chairman of the board of directors until the beginning of2012.
Note: bold indicates the names of companies listed on a regulated market.
* An independent director within the meaning of the AFEP/MEDEF corporate governance guidelines for listed companies.
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