ROTHSCHILD & CO Release Paris, 12 August 2014
Appointments to the Supervisory Board of Paris Orléans
The Combined General Meeting of Paris Orléans, to be held on 25 September 2014, will decide upon the appointment of five new Supervisory Board members, for two years. The proposed new Supervisory Board members are Mrs. Angelika Gifford, Mrs. Arielle Malard de Rothschild, Mrs. Carole Piwnica, Mrs. Luisa Todini and Mr. Daniel Daeniker.
During the meeting of 25 June 2014, the Supervisory Board, upon recommendation of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee, deliberated on the proposed candidates whose appointments will be submitted to the Combined General Meeting
The Supervisory Board was satisfied that the proposed candidates will bring both the necessary skills and diversity which will add value to the Supervisory Board's composition, in line with the Group's organisation and its international dimension.
Information concerning the candidates proposed at the Combined General Meeting, including an exhaustive list of their current and past directorships and functions will be presented in the General Meeting Document, grouping all information to be presented to the shareholders, which will be released on the Company's website and will be made available to the shareholders in accordance with legal provisions.
Paris Orléans operates in the following areas:
Global Financial Advisory provides advisory services for mergers and acquisitions, debt financing and restructuring, and equity capital markets;
Wealth and Asset Management, and
Merchant Banking which comprises third party private equity and private debt business and proprietary investments.
Paris Orléans SCA is a French partnership limited by shares (société en commandite par actions) with a share capital of €142,208,216. Paris trade and companies registry 302 519 228. Registered office: 23 bis avenue de Messine, 75008 Paris, France. Paris Orléans is listed on NYSE
Euronext in Paris, Compartment A - ISIN Code: FR0000031684.
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Biographies
Angelika Gifford, German citizen born in 1965, completed the Young Manager's MBA Program at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She started her career in the International Banking Department of Deutsche Bank in Düsseldorf, before moving into the IT industry. From 1992 to 2013 she held various directorships and management functions at Microsoft EMEA and Microsoft Germany GmbH, where from 2006 to 2011 she was a member of the Executive Board. In 2009 she was voted "Female Manager of the Year" for Germany by an independent organisation. She is currently General Manager and Vice President at Hewlett- Packard GmbH, and a director of TUI AG (Germany).
Angelika Gifford is a board member of the Atlantik-Brücke e.V. and a corporate member at
European Women's Management Development Network e.V.
Arielle Malard de Rothschild has been a director of the Rothschild Foundation for many years.
Carole Piwnica, Belgium citizen born in 1958, received a Bachelor in Law from Brussels University and a Master in Law from New York University. She is a member of the New York bar. She started her career in New York at Proskauer Rose and joined the M&A department of Shearman & Sterling in Paris. She spent 15 years in the food and agricultural processing industries and was Chairwoman of the Amylium Group (Belgium) and a director and Vice- Chairwoman of Tate and Lyle (UK). She was an independent director of Aviva PLC. Since
2010 she has served as an independent director of Eutelsat Communications the Audit Committee of Sanofi (France) and as an independent director and Chairwoman of the Governance, Remuneration and Selection Committee of Eutelsat (France).
Since 2006, Carole Piwnica has been a Director Founder of Naxos UK Ltd (United Kingdom)
and holds various directorships in Naxos Portfolio companies in the US and the UK.
On 2nd May 2014, she was appointed as chairwoman of Poste Italiane Spa upon recommendation of the Italian Government.
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Dr Daniel Daeniker, Swiss citizen born in 1963, studied law at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Zurich, where he obtained a doctorate in 1992, and at the University of Chicago, from where he graduated as a Master in Laws in 1996.
Daniel Daeniker spent most of his professional career at Homburger AG, one of Switzerland's leading law firms based in Zurich, where he became a partner in 2000 and head of the Corporate / M&A practice group in 2009. Since 2013, he has been the firm's Managing Partner. His practice focuses on mergers & acquisitions, equity capital markets, financial services regulation and corporate governance.
Daniel Daeniker is a director of Kaba Holding AG, where he chairs the Audit Committee, and of GAM Holding AG. He served as an independent director of Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG from 2001 to 2014.
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