
Arnaud Lagardère
Chairman and Chief Executive officer
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Chairman and Chief Executive officer
Arnaud Lagardère
Chairman and Chief Executive officer
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 18 March 1961
Arnaud Lagardère holds a DEA post-graduate degree in economics from the University of Paris Dauphine. He was appointed Director and Chief Executive Officer of MMB (which became Lagardère SCA and then Lagardère SA) in 1987. He was Chairman of the US company Grolier Inc. from 1994 to 1998. Arnaud Lagardère was appointed Managing Partner of the Company by way of a decision by Arjil Commanditée-Arco approved by the Supervisory Board on 26 March 2003 and his term of office was subsequently renewed in 2009, 2015 and 2020.
On June 30, 2021, he has been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lagardère SA.
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Independent Director
Chairman of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Virginie Banet
Independent Director
Chairman of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 18 January 1966
A graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, with a degree in Economic Science and a diploma from the SFAF (French Society of Financial Analysts), Virginie Banet began her career as a financial analyst at SBS, Warburg and then Deutsche Bank specialising in Capital Goods and Aerospace and Defence for Europe (1989-2003) before becoming an investment banker and Head of M&A Aerospace & Defence at Deutsche Bank and then at Airbus (2003-2008). From 2008 to 2010, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Lagardère Média, head of investor relations and financial market communications policy. From 2011 to 2014, she was a member of the Executive Committee of Natixis, Director of customer relations and advisory services, head of banking teams in France and abroad as well as traditional financing. In 2014, Virginie Banet joined Ondra as a Partner, and then joined Nomura as an investment banker in 2015. In September 2019, she founded her own financial consulting company Iolite Financial Consulting and became Senior Advisor at AlixPartners and Foncière Atland.
She is currently a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee of Netgem and a member of the Board of Directors of Mediobanca SpA.
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Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Valérie Bernis
Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 9 December 1958
Valérie Bernis is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion and the Université de Sciences Economiques in Limoges. Having spent two years as Press and Communications Officer for the French Prime Minister’s Officer, in 1996 she joined Compagnie de Suez as Executive Vice-President – Communications, and then in 1999 was appointed Deputy CEO in charge of Corporate Communications and Sustainable Development. During that time, she also served for five years as Chair and CEO of Paris Première, a French TV channel.
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Independent Director
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Laura Carrere
Independent Director
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth: 22 March 1977
A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Laura Carrere has over 16 years of experience in investment banking at Société Générale, where she was Vice President in structured finance for technology, media & telecoms (from 2003 to 2007), then Managing Director of equity transactions for large companies (from 2008 to 2016), before being promoted to Managing Director, responsible for coverage for Family offices & Holdings at the Investment Bank (from 2017 to 2019). From 2018 to 2019, Laura Carrere was also a member of the Board of Directors of ALD, the European leader in car leasing solutions. Laura Carrere also served as Commercial Director Southern Europe at EcoAct from 2020 to 2021.
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Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Fatima Fikree
Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Nationality : Qatari
Date of birth : 13 April 1992
Fatima Fikree is an Associate Director at the Qatar Investment Authority. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, the Tepper School of Business. Fatima Fikree began her career in the financial industry at Barclays plc and joined the Qatar Investment Authority in 2017. Fatima Fikree holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Director representing employees
Marie Flavion
Director representing employees
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 9 june 1962
Marie Flavion is currently Operational Marketing Product Manager at the Hatier Group’s Diffusion Department, in charge of relations between Diffusion and publishers and event communication, a position she has held since 2014. She joined the Hatier Group’s Distribution Department in 1990, first as a project manager, before taking up the position of Promotion and Communication Manager from 2000 to 2014.
She began her career at Editions Larousse in 1985 as an archivist and editor.
She has held a number of different positions within the employee representative bodies of Editions Hatier.
Marie Flavion holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Paris Sorbonne and a DEUG in modern literature.
Director representing employees
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Pascal Jouen
Director representing employees
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 28 October 1962
Pascal is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Angoulême and has been a sales executive with Larousse since 1991.
He has held a number of different positions within the employee representative bodies of Larousse and the Lagardère group.
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Independent Director
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Chairman of the ad hoc Committee
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Véronique Morali
Independent Director
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Chairman of the ad hoc Committee
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 12 September 1958
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Director
Arnaud de Puyfontaine
Director
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 26 April 1964
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Independent Director
Member of the ad hoc Committee
René Ricol
Independent Director
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 26 December 1950
Mr. René Ricol holds a Master’s degree in economy, and is a certified public accountant and auditor.
After starting his career as a partner in accounting firms, he co-founded the financial expertise firm Ricol & Lasteyrie in 1986, which he chaired until its sale in 2015.
In 2018, he created the consulting firm Ricol Lasteyrie, which he chairs and within which he is more specifically in charge of strategy and crisis management consulting.
Mr. René Ricol has also chaired France’s national institute of statutory auditors (Compagnie Nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes) (1985-1989), the National Association of Chartered Accountants (Conseil Supérieur de l’Ordre des Experts-Comptables) (1994-1998), the Association of Financial Consultants and Experts (Compagnie des Conseils et Experts Financiers) and the International Federation of Accountants – IFAC (2002- 2004).
Finally, Mr. René Ricol has held a number of positions of public responsibility, serving as President of the French Trade Credit Observatory, President of the Agency for Business Creation, Chair of the advisory board of France Investissement, national Credit Mediator, then General Commissioner for Investment.
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Independent Director
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Nicolas Sarkozy
Independent Director
Member of the Appointments, Remunerations and CSR Committee
Member of the ad hoc Committee
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 28 January 1955
Nicolas Sarkozy was the 6th President of France’s Fifth Republic (2007-2012).
Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1983-2002), National Assembly Representative for Hauts-de-Seine (1988-2002), President of the General Council for Hauts-de-Seine (2004-2007), Minister for the Budget (1993-1995), Minister for Communications (1994-1995), Government spokesman (1993-1995), Minister of the Interior, Internal Security and Local Freedoms (2002-2004), Minister of State, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry (2004), Minister of State, Minister of the Interior and Town and Country Planning (2005-2007). He was also the elected leader of French political parties UMP (2004-2007) and Les Républicains (2014-2016).
A trained lawyer, Nicolas Sarkozy is married and has four children. He is the author of several books, including Libre, Témoignage, La France pour la vie, Tout pour la France, Passions, Le Temps des Tempêtes and Promenades. He also provides consulting services to several international groups (Member of the Natixis International Advisory Network, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Corsair (listed company), as well as to the Management Committee of the Marietton group. Nicolas Sarkozy sits on the advisory boards of Axian, Chargeurs (listed company) and SPAO Reso Garantia.
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Board Advisor
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Pierre Leroy
Board Advisor
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Nationality : French
Date of birth : 8 October 1948
He was appointed Co-Managing Partner of Lagardère SCA in March 2004 and was re-appointed in 2010 and 2016. On June 30, 2021, he has been appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lagardere SA.He also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Livre since March 2021.
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