Voltalia SA — Board/Management Information 2017

Dec 11, 2017

December 11, 2017

Pierre-Jérôme Desmarquest is appointed Head of Operation & Maintenance at Voltalia

Voltalia (Euronext Paris, ISIN code: FR0011995588), an international player in renewable energies, announces the nomination of Pierre-Jérôme Desmarquest at the head of the group's Operation & Maintenance (O&M) activities.

Pierre-Jérôme Desmarquest takes the head of the Operation & Maintenance business, which, to date, manages a capacity of 1.2 GW of owned and third party owned power plants. He is also joining the Group's executive committee in addition to being responsible for Voltalia's operational headquarters in Oliveira de Frades, Portugal.

He succeeds to Ludovic Fort, who has played an important role in Voltalia's successes since 2012 and who, after a transition period, is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.

Pierre-Jérôme Desmarquest has over 25 years of experience in the electricity sector, mostly as an O&M services provider. After 12 years with ABB in France, Mexico and sub-Saharan Africa, he joined Alstom in 2005 first as a director within the Power Services activity in France and then as director of Services for Latin America until 2015, based in Brazil. Before joining Voltalia, he was working as director of the Power Services activity at General Electric in France.

Pierre Jérôme Desmarquest is an electromechanical engineer who also graduated in business from the Sorbonne University (Paris) and from an executive program at INSEAD.

« I thank Ludovic for his strong contribution to Voltalia's growth since 2012. It will be up to Pierre-Jerôme to amplify this trend. His expertise in Operation & Maintenance services together with his experience of launching such activities on an international level, in Brazil and Africa for instance, are key strengths that will contribute to accelerating the development of the Group's services activities », declares Sébastien Clerc, Voltalia's CEO.

« Voltalia is a company with strong human values and impressive achievements. I am very enthusiastic about bringing my skills to the table and using my experience to speed up the growth of the group in the Operation & Maintenance services », says Pierre-Jérôme Desmarquest.

About Voltalia (www.voltalia.com)

• Voltalia is an international player in the renewable energy sector. The Company produces and sells electricity generated from wind, solar, hydro and biomass power plants; it owns a total installed capacity of 505 MW.
• Voltalia is also a service provider, assisting its investor clients active in renewables at each project stages, from conception to operation & maintenance.
• With 440 employees in 17 countries, over 4 continents, Voltalia is able to act worldwide on behalf of its clients.
• Voltalia has been listed on the Euronext regulated market in Paris since July 2014 (FR0011995588 VLTSA) and entered the Enternext Tech 40 index in April 2017 and the CAC Mid&Small in September 2017.

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