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Corporate Governance
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4.
4.1 Management and Control
The Company has not appointed observers to the Board of Directors. Pursuant to applicable Dutch law, the employees are not
entitled to elect a Director. There is no minimum number of shares that must be held by a Director.
(ii) Curriculum Vitae and other Mandates andDuties Performed in any Company bytheMembers of the Board of
Directors in2015
64 years old
Director since 2013
Independent
Denis RANQUE
Curriculum Vitae
Denis Ranque began his career at the French Ministry for Industry, where he held various positions in
the energy sector, before joining the Thomson group in 1983 as Planning Director. The following year,
he moved to the electron tubes division, first as Director of space business, then, from 1986, as Director
of the division’s microwave tubes department. Two years later, the electron tubes division became the
affiliate Thomson Tubes Électroniques, and Denis Ranque took over as Chief Executive of this subsidiary
in 1989. In April1992, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Thomson Sintra Activités Sous-marines.
Four years later, he became CEO of Thomson Marconi Sonar, the sonar systems joint venture set up
by Thomson-CSF and GEC-Marconi. In January1998, Denis Ranque was appointed Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson-CSF group, now called Thales. He resigned from this position in
May2009, as a consequence of a change in shareholding. From February2010 to June2012 he has been
Non-Executive Chairman of Technicolor. Since October2001, he has also been Chairman of the Board
of the École des Mines ParisTech, and since September2002, Chairman of the Cercle de l’Industrie, an
association which unites France’s biggest industrial companies; both mandates ended in June2012. He
is Member of the Boards of directors of Saint-Gobain and CMA-CGM. Since October2013, he chairs The
Haut Comité de Gouvernement d’Entreprise, the newly created independent body put in place by the
French Code of corporate governance for monitoring and encouraging progress in this field. Since 2014
he is also co-Chairman of La Fabrique de l’industrie, a think tank dedicated to industry and a member
of the French Academy for Technologies (“Académie des Technologies”). Denis Ranque, born 1952, is a
graduate of France’s École Polytechnique and the Corps des Mines.
Current Mandates:
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of AirbusGroupSE;
- Member of the Board of Directors of Saint Gobain;
- Member of the Board of Directors of CMA-CGM;
- Member of the Board of Directors of Scilab Enterprise SAS;
- President of the French Haut Comité de Gouvernement d’Entreprise;
- President of the Board of Foundation de l’École Polytechnique.
Former mandates for the last five years:
- Director of CGG VERITAS (2010 to 2012);
- Director of CMA CGM (2009 to 2012);
- Director of Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (2011 to 2012);
- Chairman of Technicolor (2010 to 2012).
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