Xavier HUILLARD
Lead Director – Chairman of the Remuneration Committee – Chairman of the Appointments and Governance Committee
Nationality: French Born on June 27, 1954
Date of first appointment: May 2017
Start of current term: May 2021
End of current term: 2025 (General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024)
Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2023: 3,226 and 14,670 usufruct shares
CAREER
Xavier Huillard is a graduate of the École polytechnique and the École nationale des ponts et chaussées. He has spent most of his working life in the construction industry in France and abroad. He joined Sogea in December 1996 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of international activities and specific projects, and then became its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He was appointed Deputy General Manager of VINCI, a world leader in concessions, energy and construction, in March 1998 and was Chairman of VINCI Construction from 2000 to 2002. He was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of VINCI and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Energies from 2002 to 2004, then Chairman of VINCI Energies from 2004 to 2005. Xavier Huillard became Director and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI in 2006. He has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI since May 6, 2010. He was Chairman of the Institut de l’Entreprise from January 2011 to January 2017, of which Xavier Huillard is today Honorary Chairman. Through the VINCI Group’s foundations and endowment funds, in collaboration with charitable associations, Xavier Huillard also supports projects that help to strengthen social ties and promote the return to employment of individuals suffering from exclusion.
POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES HELD DURING THE 2023 FISCAL YEAR
FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
- Director: L’Air Liquide S.A.* (Lead Director since May 4, 2022; member of the Remuneration Committee since May 2017 and Chairman of this Committee since May 2018; member of the Appointments and Governance Committee since May 2020 and Chairman of this Committee since May 4, 2022)
POSITIONS OR ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: VINCI*
- Chairman: VINCI Concessions SAS
- Chairman of the Supervisory Board: VINCI Deutschland GmbH
- Permanent representative of VINCI on the Board of Directors of VINCI Energies, and on the endowment fund La Fabrique de la Cité
- Permanent representative of Snel on the Board of Directors of ASF
- Permanent representative of VINCI Autoroutes on the Board of Directors of Cofiroute
- Chairman: Fondation d’entreprise VINCI de la Cité (supporting social and professional integration initiatives)
- Director: Kansai Airports
- Honorary Chairman: Institut de l’entreprise
- Director: Association Aurore (public interest association against precariousness and exclusion)
- Director: Cobra Servicios, Comunicaciones y Energia SLU (Spain) (since December 2021) (applied industrial engineering sector and specialized services)
- Director and Chairman: Pierre Lamoure Institute (since November, 2019)
Annette WINKLER
Independent Director – Environment and Society Committee Chairwoman – Member of the Appointments and Governance Committee
Nationality: German Born on September 27, 1959
Date of first appointment: May 2014
Start of current term: May 2022
End of current term: 2026 (General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025)
Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2023: 2,900
CAREER
Doctor in Economics from the University of Frankfurt (Germany), Annette Winkler became the Managing Shareholder of a medium-sized construction company. In 1995, she joined the Mercedes-Benz group, where she held a variety of positions and in particular that of Senior Director/Head Public Relations and Communications. After spending two years as Head of the Mercedes-Benz sales and service outlet in Braunschweig, she became Chief Executive Officer of DaimlerChrysler Belgium and Luxembourg (1999-2005), then Vice President of Global Business Management & Wholesale Europe (2006-2010). Vice President of Daimler AG since 2010, she was Chief Executive Officer of Smart (with overall responsibility for the brand, also in charge of the smart factory in Lorraine), until 2018.
POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES HELD DURING THE 2023 FISCAL YEAR
FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
- Director: L’Air Liquide S.A.* (member of the Remuneration Committee from May 2015 to May 2020; member of the Appointments and Governance Committee since May 2017; Chairwoman of the Environment and Society Committee since May 2020)
POSITIONS OR ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
- Director: Renault S.A.* (Chairwoman of the Strategy and Sustainable Development Committee since January 2020); Renault S.A.S.