Annual Report 2011 - Analist.be

Corporate governance statementGérard LamarcheManaging DirectorBusiness address:Groupe Bruxelles Lambert24, avenue Marnix – 1000 Brussels (Belgium)Curriculum VitaeBorn on 15 July 1961, in Huy, Belgium, Belgian nationality.Gérard Lamarche has a degree in Economics fromthe University of Louvain-La-Neuve and went throughmanagement training at the INSEAD Business School(Advanced Management Program for Suez Group Executives).He also received training at the Wharton International Forumin 1998-99 (Global Leadership Series).He began his professional career in 1983 at Deloitte Haskins& Sells in Belgium. From 1988 to 1995, he held variouspositions at Société Générale de Belgique. In 1995, he joinedCompagnie Financière de Suez. In 2000, he continued hiscareer in the United States as Director, Senior ExecutiveVice-President of NALCO. In 2004, he joined the GeneralManagement of Suez Group, where he was promoted in 2008to the position of Senior Executive Vice-President - Finance,and member of the Management Committee and of theExecutive Committee of GDF SUEZ Group, offices he held until31 October 2011 and 31 December 2011 respectively.Gérard Lamarche has been a Director of Groupe BruxellesLambert since 12 April 2011 and Managing Director since1 January 2012.Antoinette d’Aspremont LyndenDirectorBusiness address:23, avenue du Général de Gaulle –1050 Brussels (Belgium)Curriculum VitaeBorn on 24 October 1949, in London, United Kingdom, Belgiannationality.Antoinette d’Aspremont Lynden holds a Master of Sciencedegree from the School of Engineering of Stanford Universityin California and a Doctorate in Applied Economics from theCatholic University of Louvain (UCL). She began her careerin quantitative methods consulting in Palo Alto, in Californiaand held various positions at Banque Bruxelles Lambertin Brussels between 1973 and 1990. Then she was duringtwenty years management professor at University Charlesde-GaulleLille 3. She is also guest professor of accountingand financial analysis at the Political Science Institute in Lille.She is also active in the non-profit sector as Vice-President ofthe Royal Philanthropic Society in Brussels, Treasurer of theCathedral St Michael and St Gudula in Brussels, Presidentof the French-speaking jury for the Queen Paola Prize foreducation and Member of the Organizing Authorityof Maredsous Private School (Belgium).She has been a Director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert since 2011.Jean-Louis BeffaDirectorBusiness address:Saint-Gobain“Les Miroirs”, 18, avenue d’Alsace –92096 La Défense Cedex (France)Curriculum VitaeBorn on 11 August 1941, in Nice, France, French nationality.After earning a degree in mining Engineering from the “Ecolepolytechnique”, Jean-Louis Beffa went on to take degrees fromthe National College of Petroleum Engineering and the PoliticalScience Institute in Paris.He began his career as an Engineer at the Fuel Directorate of theMinistry for Industry, where he was subsequently named Headof the Refining Service and then Deputy Director. In 1974,he joined Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, where he served asChairman-Chief Executive Officer from 1986 to 2007.He served as Chairman from June 2007 to June 2010.Today he is Honorary Chairman and Director of Compagniede Saint-Gobain, Senior Advisor at Lazard Frères and Chairmanof Lazard Asia Financial Advisory.He has been a Director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert since 1999.Georges Chodron de CourcelDirectorBusiness address:BNP Paribas3, rue d’Antin – 75002 Paris (France)Curriculum VitaeBorn on 20 May 1950, in Amiens, France, French nationalityAfter earning a degree from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1971, anda second degree in economics in 1972, Georges Chodron deCourcel began his career at Banque Nationale de Paris, where heheld various positions of responsibility.After six years at Banque Commerciale, he was appointedManager of Financial Studies and subsequently of the Stocksand Securities Management Department. In 1989, he was namedDirector of Financial Affairs and Industrial Shareholdings andChairman of Banexi. In January 1991, he was appointed head ofthe Financial Division and then Banking and International FinanceDivision in 1996. Following the merger with Paribas in August1999, he was named a Member of the Executive Committeeand placed in charge of BNP Paribas’ Banque de Financementet d’Investissement. Since June 2003, he has served as ChiefOperating Officer of BNP Paribas.He has been a Director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert since 2009.128 Annual Report 2011