WENDEL : appointments

Caroline Bertin Delacour promoted General Counsel of Wendel

Caroline Bertin Delacour, who joined Wendel in 2009 as Head of the Legal Department, is promoted General Counsel. She is in charge of governance, compliance and litigation.

She remains Ethics Officer and Secretary of the Supervisory Board and its Committees. She is also a member of Wendel's Management Committee.

As an attorney, she practiced tax law for 10 years with the firm Cleary Gottlieb, then 10 years in mergers and acquisitions at August & Debouzy, where she became partner in 2002. Caroline Bertin Delacour is co-author of "Highs and Lows of Modern Finance" (2013) and author of "Sovereign Wealth Funds: these new actors of the global economy" (2009).

Registered at the Paris Bar between 1990 and 2009, she holds a Master's in Business Law from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, a Master in Taxation from the University Paris V René Descartes and an LLM from New York University.

Sébastien Willerval promoted Head of the Legal Department

Previously Assistant Head of the Legal Department, Sébastien Willerval is promoted Head of the Legal Department of Wendel.

He began his career in the Legal and fiscal department of BNP in 1998 before leaving for Ernst & Young Corporate Finance from 1999 to 2002.

Sebastian Willerval holds a DESS (French equivalent of Master degree) in Business and Tax Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a Master's degree in private law - commercial and taxation law from the University Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

Adam Reinmann promoted Managing Director

Adam Reinmann is promoted Managing Director. Adam Reinmann joined Wendel in 2013 as a founding member of its New York office and, as such becomes its first American Managing Director. Since joining Wendel, Adam Reinmann has been instrumental in establishing Wendel's presence in North America, including the recently announced investment in CSP Technologies.

Prior to joining Wendel, Adam Reinmann worked at Onex Corporation and JPMorgan.

He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS from Binghamton University.

Bruno Fritsch promoted Senior Director

Bruno Fritsch is promoted Senior Director in the investment team. He joined Wendel in Paris in 2007 and has been based in Singapore since 2013 where he is in charge of developing the activities of the Group in South-East Asia and in Greater China.

Bruno Fritsch began his career with L'Oréal and then worked for six years with the strategy consulting firm Bain & Company in Paris, London and Brussels in the Private Equity and TMT practices. He subsequently spent three years in Hong Kong and in Shanghai as Vice President of Asian Business Bridge, a China-centric business accelerator, where he raised funds and developed the Asian operations of several European SMEs.

He currently sits on the Board of Nippon Oil Pump and was a Director of the Board of Stahl from 2010 to 2013 and the Secretary of the Executive Board of Wendel from 2009 to 2013.

He graduated from ESSEC Business School and holds an MBA from the Rotterdam Erasmus School of Economics.

Stéphane Heuzé promoted Director

Stéphane Heuzé, who joined our Casablanca office (covering Africa) as an Investment

Director in September 2014, is promoted Director.

Stéphane Heuzé began his career with BCG (The Boston Consulting Group) in Paris. He

then spent two years with Goldman Sachs in London, within the team responsible for

managing the firm's equity, mezzanine and secondary debt funds. In 2009, Stéphane

Heuzé returned to BCG as a founding member of the Casablanca office, covering Africa.

He graduated from Ecole des Mines de Paris and holds an MBA from Harvard Business

School.

About Wendel

Wendel is one of Europe's leading listed investment firms. The Group invests internationally, in companies that are leaders in their field, such as Bureau Veritas, Saint-Gobain, Materis Paints, Stahl and IHS in Africa. Wendel plays an active role as industry shareholder in these companies. It implements long-term development strategies, which involve boosting growth and margins of companies so as to enhance their leading market positions. Through Oranje-Nassau Développement, which brings together opportunities for investment in growth, diversification and innovation, Wendel is also a shareholder of Van Gansewinkel Groep in the Netherlands, exceet in Germany, Mecatherm and Parcours in France, Nippon Oil Pump in Japan and Saham Group in Africa.

Wendel is listed on Eurolist by Euronext Paris.

Standard & Poor's ratings: Long-term: BBB-, stable outlook - Short-term: A-3 since July 7, 2014.

Wendel is the Founding Sponsor of Centre Pompidou-Metz. In recognition of its long-term patronage of the arts, Wendel received the distinction of "Grand Mécène de la Culture" in 2012.

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