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Etex <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2014</strong><br />

Governance report<br />

Our management<br />

From left to right<br />

Nicolas Van de Abeele<br />

Head of Fire Protection & Insulation Division<br />

Prior to Etex, Nicolas held several executive<br />

management positions at Alcatel-Lucent<br />

and he was active in management<br />

consulting at Arthur Andersen Business<br />

Consulting. Since 2011, Nicolas managed our<br />

Africa, Middle-East and Asia division, and<br />

he led our group-wide R&D and innovation<br />

activities. He became Head of Etex’s Fire<br />

Protection & Insulation Division in 2015.<br />

Frédéric Deslypere<br />

Head of Latin America Division<br />

Frédéric has been watching over Etex’s<br />

financial health for many years. He started<br />

his carreer at Etex as a Legal Advisor in 1991<br />

and gradually built up experience to become<br />

Etex’s CFO in 2008. At the end of 2013, he<br />

became Head of our Latin America Division.<br />

Jean-Pierre Hanin<br />

Head of Siniat Division<br />

Jean-Pierre started his career as an<br />

attorney in the international firm Cleary<br />

Gottlieb. He held several executive<br />

functions in the Belgian Lhoist Group where<br />

he was CFO and CEO. He became CFO<br />

of Etex in 2013 and Head of Etex’s Siniat<br />

Division in <strong>2014</strong>.<br />

Myriam Macharis<br />

HR Director<br />

Myriam joined Eternit Belgium as a legal<br />

advisor in 1983. Having fulfilled several<br />

roles for corporate activities such as legal,<br />

EHS and public relations, she became HR<br />

Director for Eternit Belgium in 2005. In<br />

2011, she started carrying out this function<br />

at group level.<br />

Recent management changes<br />

• On 31 December <strong>2014</strong>, J. Alfons Peeters retired as CEO.<br />

• Paul Van Oyen became Etex’s new CEO on 1 January 2015.<br />

• On 1 January 2015, Nicolas Van den Abeele became<br />

Head of the Fire Protection & Insulation Division.<br />

• Jean-Pierre Hanin succeeded to Bernard Lekien,<br />

who retired from the Executive Committee, as<br />

Division Director of Siniat on 1 September <strong>2014</strong>.<br />

• A new CFO will be appointed in the course of 2015.<br />

Until then Jean-Pierre Hanin will assume the role.<br />

At the beginning of 2015, the members<br />

of our Executive Committee are:<br />

• Paul Van Oyen, Chief Executive Officer<br />

• Frédéric Deslypere, Head of Latin America Division<br />

• Karel De Wilde, Company Secretary<br />

• Jean-Pierre Hanin, Head of Siniat Division and CFO<br />

• André Hoste, Head of European Building Materials Division<br />

• Myriam Macharis, HR Director<br />

• Nicolas Van de Abeele, Head of Fire<br />

Protection & Insulation Division<br />

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