Assystem - 2015 Registration Document

2015 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY REPORT (CSR)

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

4.3 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

women directors has been raised to 40% with the co-opting of another director, Virginie Calmels, on 9 March 2016 (see Chapter 2 of this Registration Document). Overseen by its Chairman and major shareholder, Dominique Louis, Assystem’s management team is mainly made up of engineers who hold or used to hold operational positions in the Company. This is concrete evidence that within the Group, responsibility is based on expertise and initiative. Assystem senior management attaches great importance to the efficiency of its decision-making process and circulation of information within the Group. This concern stems in particular from a decentralised management structure, equally relevant in the context of the Company’s increasingly international development.

Since 22 May 2014 Assystem has been a public limited liability company with a Board of Directors. This method of administration provides a form of governance that is more closely aligned with management, while ensuring adequate oversight by independent directors. The Company also has two Committees that contribute to governance: the Audit Committee, which helps the Board of Directors exercise its roles and responsibilities in the areas of finance and auditing, and the Remuneration and Appointments Committee, which submits proposals to the Board of Directors concerning the appointment and remuneration of members of the Board or senior management. In compliance with Act no. 2011-103 of 27 January 2011 concerning balanced representation of women and men on Boards of Directors and gender equality, the Board of Directors on 31 December 2015 comprised one woman out of a total of four directors, i.e. 25%. Since then, the percentage of

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