Members of the Supervisory Board

Jean Marie  Descarpentries, 75, French nationality

A graduate of France's Ecole Polytechnique, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite.

After starting his career with Shell and McKinsey, he became a corporate executive with the BSN group and later with Saint Gobain. From 1982 to 1991, he headed Carnaud Metalbox. Subsequently called in to help Bull, between 1993 and 1997 he turned the company around before privatising it. After that, he took over as Executive Manager of the Ingenico group.

Position held at Solutions30:

Chairman of the Supervisory Board since 24 July 2009, appointed for the remainder of his predecessor's tenure, due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' 2011 general meeting, in which members will examine the 2010 accounts.

SOFINNOVA PARTNERS, represented by Olivier Sichel, 44, French nationality

A graduate of the ESSEC business school and the ENA (Ecole nationale d'administration), Inspector of Finance.

 

Joined Sofinnova Partners in 2006 as an associate.

 

Before then, he held operational positions of responsibility at France Telecom from 1998 onwards. He was appointed CEO of Alapage.com in 2000, and CEO of Wanadoo in 2002, raising the latter to the world's second-ranking player in terms of number of broadband customers. He was behind the launch of both the Livebox modem router and VoIP.

 

Position held at Solutions30:

Member of the Supervisory Board since January 2008, appointed to replace resigning member Jacques Lang for a term due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' 2011 general meeting in which members will examine the 2010 accounts.





Benedikt Timmerman, 52, Belgian nationality

 

Holds a doctorate in genetics from the University of Ghent (Belgium), and an MBA from the INSEAD business school. After a career in teaching and research in Belgium and Brazil, he acquired 20 years' experience in R&D management positions at Sandoz and Novartis.

 

Specialising in innovation and life sciences, in 2001 he founded the BT PHARMA laboratory, which in March 2010 became GENTICEL, where he is Chairman of the Executive Board.

 

Position held at Solutions30:

Member of the Supervisory Board since 29 January 2007 and Deputy Chairman since November 2008, after being appointed to replace Christiane Massa, representative of the resigning CREADEV company, for a term due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' 2012 meeting in which members will examine the 2011 accounts.

 

 





Jean Morisson de la Bassetière, 57, French nationality

A graduate of Stanford University (USA), widely experienced in brand development and communication, having pursued a long career as customer relations manager and as senior general manager for English-speaking advertising agencies such as Young & Rubicam and Saatchi & Saatchi.

The founder and manager of the Invescom agency, he has been providing consultancy services to institutional clients for some ten years now.

Position held at Solutions30:

Member of the Supervisory Board since 26 May 2005, appointed for a 6-year term due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' 2011 meeting in which members will examine the 2010 accounts.

Pierre Schoen, 59, French nationality

 

His name was long associated with the business his father created, Gebo Industries, which designs and manufactures drink bottling machinery. He expanded the business considerably before selling it in 1997.

 

Since then, he manages investment funds (P2C) in various economic sectors.

 

Position held at Solutions30:

Member of the Supervisory Board since 23 September 2009, appointed for a 6-year term due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' ordinary annual general meeting convened to examine the accounts for the year ending 31 December 2014.

NEM INVEST, represented by Eric Girardin, 60, French nationality

A graduate of the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris, he holds a Masters in business law and a DESS higher accounting diploma. A member of the SFAF French Society of Financial Analysts.

Eric Girardin has spent his entire career in banking (NATIXIS group) since joining the BFCE French foreign trade bank in 1975.

Position held at Solutions30:

Member of the Supervisory Board as representative of NEM INVEST since September 2009, appointed to replace Philippe Sereys de Rothschild (46, of French nationality, representing NEM PARTNERS), for a term due to expire subsequent to the shareholders' 2011 general meeting in which members will examine the 2010 accounts.

 



Members of the Executive Board

Gianbeppi Fortis, 48, Italian nationality

A graduate of the Milan Polytechnic School, he holds an MBA from the INSEAD business school.

Emmanuel Journe, 64, French nationality

A graduate of the Reims Graduate Business School.

After 25 years spent in operational management positions with subsidiaries of international agri-food groups both in France and overseas, he worked for 10 years as an entrepreneur of an SME and in business consultancy.

The project's first "non-technical" investor, he was appointed to the Supervisory Board at the shareholders' general meeting on 26 May 2005.

Joining the company's payroll as its Corporate Secretary in 2006, he resigned from his chairmanship of the Supervisory Board (to be succeeded by Jean Marie Descarpentries), and was appointed member of the PC30 Executive Board as of midnight on 24 July 2009.

Position held at Solutions30:

• Chairman of the Supervisory Board up until 23 July 2009
• Member of the Executive Board since 24 July 2009, re-appointed for a 4-year term due to expire on 30 June 2014
• PC30: Corporate Secretary