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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
4.3
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
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
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.
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