The Management
Board
Mission
The Management Board is the company's management and administration decision-making body.
It brings together key functional and operational skills required to manage and develop the Group. Its prerogatives confer on it the broadest powers in the governance of the company.
The Management Board has the authority to act in all circumstances on behalf of the company, subject to the powers expressly granted by law to the Supervisory Board and the Shareholders meetings.
Composed of six members, under the chairmanship of Dominique Louis, who represents the company before third parties, the Management Board as a collegiate body meets as a often as warranted by the interests of the company.
Composition
Assystem Management Board is currently composed of 6 members who are appointed by the Supervisory Board for a term of five years.
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David BRADLEY
Executive Vice-President
A Chartered Engineer, member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and holder of an MBA from Warwick University. David BRADLEY started his career in commercial vehicle design before joining the predecessor of Inbis where he worked in the advanced robotics and automation division (Taylor Hitec).
Following a merger with Ricardo International, David was appointed Deputy MD of Ricardo Hitec expanding his responsibilities to cover the company’s Aerospace and Nuclear activities.
In 1997 David was one of the principal investing Directors in the foundation of Inbis Groupe Plc that completed the acquisition of both Ricardo Hitec and Ricardo Technology in 1997. As CEO of Inbis since 2002 David became a member of the Assystem Executive Committee following the acquisition of Inbis by Assystem. David is today Chief Executive of Assystem UK Ltd and was appointed as a member of Assystem’s Management Board in December 2007.
Stéphane AUBARBIER
Executive Vice-President
An engineering graduate of the Lyon INSA (National Institute for the Applied Sciences) holding an MBA from the ESCP-EAP (European School of Management in Paris), Stéphane AUBARBIER started his career in the Assystem group where, after some time in operational positions, he took over the development of the Automotive sector.
Subsequently, Stéphane turned his talents to marketing the service offers within the ABB group. He successively occupied the positions of Director of the maintenance contracts division for France, then for South Europe, finally taking over ABB Service's Marketing and Business Development Management for South Europe.
In June 2002, Stéphane joined Assystem's Executive Committee to steer the Process Business Unit in the development of the engineering activities. Since January 2005, Stéphane is Executive Vice-President of the Assystem group, with a seat on the Management Board.
Dominique LOUIS
Chairman of the Management Board
After obtaining his engineering degree at the ENSEM, Dominique LOUIS started working as test engineer for ATEM. A few years later, he created his own company, R'data, and subsequently Alphatem, a joint subsidiary with COGEMA.
ATEM, R'data and Alphatem were merged to form Assystem, which Dominique LOUIS steered to a stock exchange listing in 1995.
Leaving the nuclear sector at the end of the nineties was the prelude to a complete rethinking of the Assystem project. His ambition is to make Assystem a European engineering company of international standing, present in Europe, Asia and the Americas .
Gérard BRESCON
Executive Vice-President
Engineer of the Arts & Métiers Higher Education Institute, Gérard BRESCON joined the Assystem group in 1983, where he first worked in the Nuclear Energy sector as Test Engineer. Later he was named Project Manager for the Automotive sector. He took on managerial responsibilities, and participated actively in developing the branch, before being named Operations Director for the group.
Gérard became CEO of Assystem Services in 2000. He created responsive local structures close to the customers, pooling the resources of many of the company's subsidiaries.
In 2002, he became Deputy CEO for Industry. He steered the integration of the Group's new structures, defined new commercial goals and is focused on developing human resources.
Invited to join the Management Board in January 2004, Gérard is now focusing on the industrialization of methods and expertise within the engineering and human resources fields. On 1st July 2005, he was named Chairman of Assystem France, retaining his duties within the Board.
Martine GRIFFON-FOUCO
Executive Vice-President
Engineering graduate from the ENSMA (Mechanical and aerotechnical engineering school) in Poitiers, Martine GRIFFON-FOUCO has started her career as research officer at the Commission for Atomic Energy and she then pursued it at EDF for 20 years, primarily in the nuclear energy sector.
The first female manager of a nuclear power plant, Martine occupied the position of Director of the Blayais nuclear production centre from 1994 to 1998, and then became a member of the Group's Executive Committee. She left EDF to join CEGELEC as Director of the Non-Destructive Testing BU and Sales Director.
In 2007, Martine joined the Assystem group to become Chairman of Assystem Facilities, whose mission consists in developing exploitation and maintenance activities in all industrial sectors in France and around the world. Since January 2010, Martine is member of the Management Board and has been appointed Executive Vice-President Corporate & Business Development of the Assystem group in January 2011.
Gilbert VIDAL
Executive Vice-President
With an MA in Economics and as a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Impôts (French national tax school), Gilbert VIDAL started his career in 1977 at the General Tax Division of the Ministry of Finance where he was in charge of inspecting several international groups operating in various sectors like aeronautics, defence or pharmaceuticals.
In 1991, Gilbert joined Framatome, contributing his extensive know-how and experience. There, for ten years, he worked as Tax Director, Director of Financial Services, then Financial Director and, for the last five years, Assistant Financial Director in charge of Financial Control and Taxation for the whole AREVA group.
In December 2006, Gilbert joined the Assystem group as Financial Director and member of the Management Board. He is in charge of company cash and finance, management control, consolidation and financial analysis as well as taxation.
The Supervisory Board
Mission
The Supervisory Board's primary mission is to perform the ongoing monitoring of the management of Assystem by the Management Board. It also engages in strategic reflection for the Group and in this vein has set up two committees comprised of its own members to deal with specific matters: an Audit Committee and a Remuneration and Nominations Committee, each with its own rules of procedure.
In order to properly carry out its duties, it is consistently and fully informed on matters submitted to it prior to its meetings, covering all the items on the agenda and in particular, every quarter, the running of the Company.
It meets as often as required by the interests of the Company and at least four times a year. In the 2009 financial year it met 6 times, with an attendance rate among its members of 70%.
Composition
The Assystem's Supervisory Board was composed of nine members, including eight independent members (*), all appointed for terms of 3 years renewable.
- Michel COMBES * - President of the Supervisory Board
- Pierre GUÉNANT *
- Gilbert LEHMANN *
- Stanislas CHAPRON
- Armand CARLIER *
- Jean-Pascal TRANIÉ *
- Bertrand FINET *
- Bruno ANGLES *
- Myriam MAES *
The Secretary of the Supervisory Board is Geneviève Laverny, Director Group Corporate Legal Affairs.
View the Report of the President of the Supervisory Board on the conditions for preparing and organising the activities of its Supervisory Board and internal control procedures (only in french)
The
Committees
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee’s role is to assist the Supervisory Board in fulfilling its financial and audit duties and responsibilities. Accordingly, its tasks include: the integrity of financial reporting, internal control, implementation of the internal audit function, independence and the performance of statutory auditors, risk management, financial planning, monitoring major projects and ethical standards.
Composition
- Gilbert LEHMANN - President
- Armand CARLIER
- Pierre GUÉNANT
- Bertrand FINET
- Jean-Pascal TRANIÉ
Remuneration and Nominations Committee
It is tasked with making proposals to the Supervisory Board regarding the appointment of members of the Supervisory Board, members of the Management Board, the President of the Management Board, any executive officers and members of the Audit Committee. The President of the Supervisory Board also keeps it informed of the appointment of other Group executives.
Furthermore, the Committee makes recommendations to the Supervisory Board concerning the amount of directors’ emoluments to be submitted for approval by the General Meeting and how these should be distributed between members of the Supervisory Board.
In addition, the Committee may submit proposals to the Supervisory Board concerning the remuneration of some of the company’s officers and may, at the request of the President of the Supervisory Board, express an opinion on the methods used to calculate the remuneration of Company directors.
Composition
- Stanislas CHAPRON - President
- Armand CARLIER
- Miriam MAES
- Rémy CHARDON