Annual Report Harel Frère Ltd 2006 - Investing In Africa

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board profile
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Alain Vallet (52)
Advanced Certificate in Business Studies (London)
Executive director - First appointed to the Board 1992
Alain Vallet joined the group in 1979 as marketing
executive for wine and spirits. He actively participated in
the re-engineering of the Grays cluster in the early eighties
and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1989 and
a Grays director in 1993. He is a member of Harel Frères'
Management Committee. He has served on a number of
private sector institutions, such as The Mauritius Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, the Association of Mauritian
Manufacturers and the Mauritius Employers' Federation.
Directorships of listed companies :
• Compagnie des Magasins Populaires Ltée
• United Docks Ltd (as from October 17, 2006)
Louis Denis Koenig (40)
Maîtrise es Sciences Economiques (Economie d'Entreprise)
Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisées (Finance) -
(France)
Management and Administrative Executive
Louis Denis Koenig worked as a Statistician at The Anglo-
Mauritius Assurance Society Limited before joining the
group in 1990 as Assistant Secretary. He is at present a
member of the company's Management Committee. He
held a Dealers Representative licence from the Financial
Services Commission and has acted in such capacity for
Cavell Securities Ltd, since 1992 up to October 2006. He
was also a director of The Stock Exchange of Mauritius Ltd
and of The Central Depositary & Settlement Co Ltd and a
member of the Index Management Committee (SEM 7) of
the Stock Exchange until October 2006.
New appointment
Jean Pierre Hardy will be proposed for election at the
forthcoming Annual Meeting in replacement of Dominique
de Froberville who will not stand for re-election. A summary
of Jean Pierre Hardy’s curriculum vitae is included hereunder.
Jean Pierre Hardy (49)
Maîtrise de Gestion (France)
First appointed to the Board 1988 to 2003
After having completed his studies, Jean Pierre Hardy
worked in Europe and Reunion until 1987, when he
returned to Mauritius to run a sworn broker's office. He is
self employed and has since launched a number of business
ventures in textiles, information technology and finance.
Besides being actively engaged in several NGO's and
associations involved in the social and educational fields, he
is a past member of the NPCC’s Innovation Committee and
of the Comité pour la Promotion de l’Unité Nationale. He
was a director of Harel Frères Limited and of a number of
subsidiaries between 1988 and 2003.
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