– FRANCE, Puteaux – ORPEA (EPA: ORP) today announced the nominations of four new independent directors for their election to its Board of Directors, alongside CEO Laurent Guillot also joining the Board following his recent appointment effective from 1st July 202.
The four new independent directors to be voted on by the shareholders on 28 July 2022 are:
- Guillaume Pepy, Chairman of Initiative France and former Chairman and CEO of SNCF;
- Isabelle Calvez, Director of Human Resources at the Veolia Group;
- John Glen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BIC S.A.;
- David Hale, CEO of the Guerbet Group.
Guillaume Pepy will be proposed to chair the new Board of Directors.
Philippe Charrier, who chaired the Board of Directors and was ORPEA’s provisional CEO from February to June 2022, has decided to step down as a director at the end of the next AGM. Moritz Krautkrämer resigned his directorship on 17 June 2022 while Jean-Patrick Fortlacroix will not seek to renew his term of office as director.
About Guillaume Pepy
Recognized for his extensive leadership experience, Guillaume Pepy is currently Chairman of Initiative France, the leading network of associations for financing and supporting new entrepreneurs, and of LYDEC, a subsidiary of Suez, charged with managing water and electricity in the Greater Casablanca region in Morocco. Guillaume Pepy is also a Senior Advisor to Salesforce and the Boston Consulting Group. He is a director of Chemours Inc in the United States. Guillaume Pepy began his career at the French Council of State and then at the Ministries of Finance and of Labor, Employment and Social Affairs. In 1996, he was made Deputy CEO of the SOFRES Group. He was then appointed Director of Main Lines at the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français in 1997. Following this, he went on to take up the position of COO for Customers, Group COO and then Chairman and COO from 2008 to 2019. Guillaume Pepy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Shoah Memorial, Malandain Ballet Biarritz and the Heart and Research Foundation. He is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Political Studies Institute) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration.
About Isabelle Calvez
With a long career in the field of Human Resources, Isabelle Calvez has been Director of Human Resources of Veolia since April 2022, after having been Group Director of Human Resources of Suez from May 2017 to May 2022. Isabelle Calvez began her career in executive search before joining Thomson-CSF, now Thalès, where she was appointed Business development director for Communications electronic warfare in 1996. In 2000, she joined the Canal+ Group as Director of Human Resources for Canal+ Technologies and HR Development VP for the group. She was appointed HR VP France & Benelux Accenture in 2003, HR VP for the Groupama Group in 2007 and then for Carrefour France in 2012. Isabelle Calvez graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Political Studies Institute) in 1986.
About John Glen
Particularly experienced in governance and leadership as well as finance and real estate, John Glen began his career at Unilever, before joining Air Liquide in 2000 as Group Finance Director and member of the Executive Committee. From 2008 to 2019, he was CEO of Buccleuch Estates Ltd, the holding company of a family group operating in the agricultural field of activity and industry sector in England and Scotland. In particular, he has helped to develop and market a portfolio of large energy projects in sustainable technologies. In addition, he became a director of The Borders Distillery Co. in 2016. From January 2020, he served as Group COO of DC Thomson Publishing before being appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of BIC SA until May 2022. John Glen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants and holds a master’s degree in Accounting and Economics from the University of Edinburgh.
About David Hale
A specialist in the healthcare sector, David Hale has been CEO of Guerbet since December 2019, following several months with the group as CCO and member of the Executive Committee in charge of sales, marketing, development and engineering of diagnostic imaging medical devices. David Hale has worked for Ascom and Boston Consulting Group, among others. He then joined GE Healthcare in France and the United States, where for 15 years he held several management positions in the areas of quality, sales, marketing and product management in the services and information systems sectors. David Hale graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) with a degree in industrial and systems engineering and an MBA from the Institute of Management Development (Switzerland).
About ORPEA
Founded in 1989, ORPEA is one of the world leaders in Dependency care (nursing homes, assisted living, post-acute and rehabilitation hospitals, mental health hospitals, home care services)
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