Board/Management Information • Apr 8, 2013
Board/Management Information
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Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, April 8, 2013 – The Board of Directors of Bureau Veritas has decided to propose the appointment of three new Board members, based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Compensation Committee, to the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of May 22, 2013.
The Board also proposes to renew the mandates, due to expire at the end of the AGM, of four Board members.
In addition, Mr Ernest-Antoine Seillière has not requested the renewal of his mandate as Board member.
The new Board members to be proposed have remarkable skills and careers developed in key markets for Bureau Veritas – especially energy and industry – and hold management responsibilities within global organizations.
49 years of age, French nationality.
Since the end of March 2013, Lucia Sinapi-Thomas is Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Capgemini, a global leader in management consulting and IT services. She has been appointed as a member of Cap Gemini Board in May 2012.
After starting her career as a tax and business lawyer in 1986, Lucia Sinapi-Thomas joined Capgemini in 1992 as Group Tax Advisor. Since 1999, she was also in charge of Corporate Finance and Treasury. In 2005, she became head of Business Risk Management and Insurance. In parallel, from 1999 to 2005, she was also in charge of Investor Relations.
Lucia Sinapi-Thomas graduated from the ESSEC business school in France (1986), and Paris Law University (1988), was admitted to the Paris bar (1989), and has a financial analyst degree (SFAF – 1997). Lucia Sinapi-Thomas will be one of four Board members representing Wendel on Bureau Veritas' Board.
46 years of age, Italian nationality
Since 2013, Nicoletta Giadrossi is Chief Operations Officer in Aker Solutions, a global offshore engineering leader, headquartered in Oslo, Norway, of which she has been a Board Member until this year. Nicoletta Giadrossi is also a Board Member for Faiveley Transport since 2011.
From 2009 to 2012, she was VP and GM for EMEA at Dresser Rand, a leading provider of equipment for the extraction and treatment of Energy. Prior to that, Nicoletta Giadrossi spent 10 years in General Electric, where she held several leadership positions, among them GM in Oil&Gas Downstream and COO for Equipement Management Europe. She also has a background in consulting with BCG and in private equity.
Nicoletta Giadrossi holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
56 years of age, British nationality.
Ieda Gomes Yell has spent her career in the renewable energies and gas industry and is a specialist in natural gas and energy strategy in emerging gas markets in Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. She has held a variety of senior positions at BP, such as Vice President of New Ventures at BP Integrated Supply and Trading (2004-2011), President of BP Brazil (2000-2002), Vice President of Regulatory Affairs (1999-2000), Vice President of Market Development at BP Solar (2002-2004) and Vice President of Pan American Energy (1998-1999). Prior to BP, Ieda Gomes Yell was CEO of Brazil's largest gas distribution company, Comgas (1995-1998). She has also held several board and executive level positions in industry trade associations (the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure, the International Gas Union, the US Civil Engineering Foundation and the Brazilian Association of Gas Distribution Companies). Ieda Gomes Yell has a BSc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1977), an MSc in Energy from the University of São Paulo (1996) and in Environmental Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (1978).
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in conformity assessment and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has almost 59,000 employees in around 1,300 offices and laboratories located in 140 countries. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to improve their performances by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the Next 20 index (Compartiment A, code ISIN FR 0006174348, stock symbol: BVI).
www.bureauveritas.com
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