Thales : Trois nominations au Conseil d’administration de Thales
December 30, 2016 at 10:46 pm EST
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On 29 November 2016 the Thales Board of Directors, acting on a proposal from the Public Sector, co-opted Delphine Gény-Stephann, Vice-President for Corporate Planning & Strategy at Saint-Gobain, to succeed Thierry Aulagnon as a board member. Her term as a director will run until the end of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting that will be held to approve the 2017 financial statements.
The Board of Directors also noted the appointment of two new employee board members by the union organisations: Anne-Marie Hunot-Schmit and Frédérique Sainct, who will succeed Martine Saunier and Dominique Floch for a period of 4 years as of 9 December 2016.
As of that date, the Board will have 16 members including 8 women (50%). Six of the 14 members appointed by Annual Shareholders' Meeting will be women, thus exceeding the 40% statutory threshold for 2017.
Key points
Delphine Gény-Stephann to succeed Thierry Aulagnon as member of Thales Board of Directors
Women now account for more than 40% of board members, as required by law for 2017
Anne-Marie Hunot-Schmit and Frédérique Sainct designated by union organisations to succeed Martine Saunier and Dominique Floch as employee board members
Delphine Gény-Stephann
graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and from Collège des Ingénieurs in Paris. In 1994 she began her career in the French Ministry of Economy & Finance, working at the Treasury Directorate General, International Affairs Department, before being appointed Head of Division at the State Holdings Agency (Agence des Participations de l'Etat) in 1999. Delphine Gény-Stephann joined Saint-Gobain in 2005 as Development, Mergers & Acquisitions Director of the High Performance Materials Sector. In 2009, she became Financial Director for the Ceramic Materials Activity then, in 2013, External Venturing Director and Mergers & Acquisitions Manager for the Innovative Materials Pole. In October 2014, she joined the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain to become Vice-President for Corporate Planning & Strategy and a member of the Saint-Gobain Group Management Committee. She also serves as a director of Saint-Gobain Isover and Saint-Gobain PAM.
Anne-Marie Hunot-Schmit is a graduate of the IAE Paris business school and holds a degree in applied mathematics. She joined Dassault Electronique in 1987 as a software developer and filed the first patent for the GPWS/GCAS ground collision warning and avoidance system. In 1998, she became a member of the first contract management team on the Mirage 2000 programmes. She joined Thales' corporate management in 2007, as head of price control. Since the autumn of 2016, Anne-Marie Hunot-Schmit has served as head of financial control for ground transportation bids and projects.
Frédérique Sainct graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Paris with an engineering degree in 1982 and in 1984 she joined Aérospatiale's Cannes facility, which became part of Alcatel in 1998, then part of Thales Alenia Space in 2007. She has held a number of positions in satellite programmes, specialising first in attitude control and then in mission analysis, for telecom customers in Europe and export markets. Since 2006, she has been a technical expert for the 'In-Orbit Operations' business.
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- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).
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