Invitation to our General Meeting 2024

Introduction

MichaelH. THAMAN

Independent Director

Nationality: American Born on March 5, 1964

Date of first appointment: May 2023

Start of current term: May 2023

End of current term: 2027 (General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026)

Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2023: 500

CAREER

Michael H. Thaman is a graduate of Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He began his career in 1986 with Mercer Management Consulting, where he became Vice President in the New York office. In 1992, Michael H. Thaman began his nearly 30 year career with Owens Corning, a global building and industrial materials leader (manufacturing and selling insulation and roofing products, fiberglass composite materials and innovative and sustainable solutions for construction), where he held a variety of senior leadership positions including VP and President, Engineered Pipe Systems from 1997 to 1998 and Exterior Systems Business from 1999 to 2000, and Senior VP and Chief Financial Officer from 2000 to 2007. From 2007 to 2019, Michael H. Thaman served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Owens Corning, and was Executive Chairman from 2002-2020, a period during which Owens Corning became one of the top-rated US companies on ESG criteria. Michael H. Thaman has been a Director of NextEra Energy, a major US based utility company, from 2003 to 2014, a decade during which the company developed a clean energy growth strategy.

 

POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES HELD DURING THE 2023 FISCAL YEAR

FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
  • Director: L’Air Liquide S.A.* (since May 2023)
POSITIONS OR ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
  • Director: Sherwin-Williams* (since May 2017) (Member of the Compensation and Management Development Committee)
  • Director: Kohler Co. (since May 2014)
  • Director: UL Solutions Inc. (since May 2021)

Monica de VIRGILIIS

Independent Director – Member of the Environment and Society Committee

Nationality: Italian and French Born on July 20, 1967

Date of first appointment: May 2023

Start of current term: May 2023

End of current term: 2024Renewal of term proposed to the General Meeting of April 30, 2024. (General Meeting to approve the financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023)

Number of shares owned as of December 31, 2023: 500

CAREER

Monica de Virgiliis graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin with a degree in electronic engineering. She started her career in 1993 at Magneti Marelli (Fiat Group) as a production engineer. In 1996, she joined the CEA in Italy, where she was in charge of developing partnerships with Italian companies. In 2001, she began a 15-year career at STMicroelectronics, a leading international semiconductor group based in Geneva, where she held various managerial positions, including General Manager of the wireless multimedia division, and ultimately Corporate Director of Strategy and Development. In 2015-2016, Monica de Virgiliis was Managing Director of the Industrial Microcontroller Division of Infineon, a German semiconductor group based in Munich. Throughout her career in the field of new technologies, Monica de Virgiliis has alternated between operational and strategic positions on a global scale and has played a key role in the transformation of business models in markets highly impacted by digitalization. In 2017, Monica de Virgiliis decided to apply her technological skills to energy transition. She was Director of Strategy at CEA (Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) in Paris from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, she founded Chapter Zero France, a non- profit association aiming to raise awareness of climate issues among non-executive directors, of which she is Chair.

 

POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES HELD DURING THE 2023 FISCAL YEAR

FUNCTIONS WITHIN THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
  • Director: L’Air Liquide S.A.* (since May 2023) (Member of the Environment and Society Committee since May 2023)
POSITIONS OR ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THE AIR LIQUIDE GROUP
  • Chairwoman: SNAM* (since April, 2022) (Member of the Board since 2016)
  • Member of the Supervisory Board: ASM International* (since 2020Until May  2024, as Ms  Monica de Virgiliis already announced her decision not to seek a second term as Supervisory Board member of ASM. The appointment of her successor has been published inDecember 2023.) (Member of the Audit Committee)
  • Director: Georg Fischer* (since April 2023) (Member of the Audit Committee)