French national, aged 74, Director/Member of the Audit Committee
Appointment at Compagnie Financière Tradition S.A.: First elected on 7 January 1997. Re-elected on 25 April 2007 for a three-year term.
Offices held in governing and supervisory bodies of large public or private, Swiss or foreign corporations, foundations or institutions at 31 December 2010: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PC 30, Honorary President of the FNEGE (France), President of the Observatoire de l’Immatériel (France), Director of Assurances et Conseils St-Honoré (France), Banque de Vizille (France), VIEL & Cie (France), GINGER (France), Censeur de Parsys (France), member of the Strategy Committee of Bolloré (France), and member of the Advisory Board of British Telecom (France).
Education: Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris.
Career history: Jean-Marie Descarpentries has been a senior executive of some of Europe’s major industrial groups (Shell, Danone, St Gobain, Interbrew). From 1982 to 1991, he was CEO of Carnaud Metalbox. From 1994 to 1997, he was CEO of Bull, and was responsible for turning the company around and its privatisation.
