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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MIRIAM MAES
A director of Assystem, member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee
Born in 1956
A Dutch national
Business address: Assystem – 70, boulevard de Courcelles – 75017
Paris, France
Date elected as a director: 22 May 2014
End of current term of office: Annual General Meeting to be held
in 2017 to approve the 2016 financial statements. At the 16 May
2017 Annual General Meeting shareholders will be asked to re-elect
Ms. Maes as a director for a further three-year term.
At 31 December 2016, Miriam Maes did not hold any Assystem
shares.
Biography
•
Miriam Maes holds a Business Administration degree from Nyenrode Business
Universiteit in the Netherlands. She has worked for multinationals for 30 years,
more than 20 of which have been spent managing national and international
profit centres.
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Miriam Maes began working in the energy sector in 2002, initially at Texas
Utilities (TXU) as a member of the European Executive team and later at EDF where
she worked as Chief Operating Officer in charge of non-regulated networks and
decentralised energy business.
•
In 2007 she became Chair of Foresee, a consulting firm specialising in sustainable
development and energy management for businesses.
•
In 2010 she was appointed as an adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Energy
& Climate Change with the specific task of supporting the UK government’s public
sector energy and carbon emissions reduction
programmes
.
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Miriam Maes is currently Chair of Elia Group and is a director of Naturex,
Vilmorin & Cie and Eramet.
LIST OF OFFICES AND POSTS HELD BY MIRIAM MAES
AT 31 DECEMBER 2016
Offices and posts
Group company
Offices and posts held in France
Director, member of the Audit Committee and
Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration
Committee
Assystem*
Offices and posts held outside France
None
Offices and posts
Non-Group companies
Offices and posts held in France
Director
Eramet
Director and member of the Remuneration
Committee
Naturex*
Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Vilmorin & Cie*
Offices and posts held outside France
Chair
Elia Asset BV – Brussels
(Belgium)*
Chair
Foresee – London (UK)
Chair
Elia System Operator Bv
Non-executive director and member
of the Audit Committee
Urenco and Ucn
* Listed company.
LIST OF OFFICES AND POSTS HELD BY MIRIAM MAES
IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS WHICH HAVE EXPIRED
Offices and posts
Group company
Offices and posts held in France
Member of the Supervisory Board
Assystem*
Offices and posts held outside France
None
Offices and posts
Non-Group companies
Offices and posts held in France
None
Offices and posts held outside France
Chair
Sabien Technology Group Ltd
(UK)
Non-executive director
Elia System Operator – NV
Non-executive director
Elia Asset – NV
Non-executive director
Kiwi Power Ltd
* Listed company.
ASSYSTEM
REGISTRATION DOCUMENT
2016
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