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Mr. David Webster(Independent Board member)Born on February 11, 1945.Mr. Webster is a graduate in law from the University ofGlasgow and qualified as a solicitor in 1968. He began hiscareer in finance as a manager of the corporate financedivision at Samuel Montagu & Co Ltd. During 1973 to 1976,as finance director, he developed Oriel Foods. In 1977, heco-founded Safeway (formerly Argyll Group), a FTSE 100company, of which he was finance director and latterly, from1997 to 2004, Executive Chairman. He was a non-executivedirector of Reed International plc. from 1992, Reed Elsevierplc. and Elsevier NV from 1999 and Chairman of Reed Elsevier 1998/1999,retiring from all three boards in 2002. He has been a director in numerousbusiness sectors and has a wide range of experience in the hotel industry inparticular. He was the non-executive Chairman of Intercontinental Hotels Groupplc until 31 December 2012. Currentlyhe is non-executive Chairman of MakinsonCowell Limited, a non-executive director of Temple Bar Investment Trust plc anda member of the appeals committee of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers inLondon.He joined the Board of Directors of Amadeus on May 6, 2010.Mr. Pierre-Henri Gourgeon(Board member) )Born on April 28, 1946. Mr. Gourgeon holds a degree inengineering from the École Polytechnique de Paris and the ÉcoleNationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique and holds a master ofscience degree from the Californian Institute of Technology inPasadena. He has held various positions as an engineer for theFrench Ministry of Defence, in the technical and aeronauticalproduction departments. He was Director General of the FrenchCivil Aviation Authorities between 1990 and 1993 prior to joiningthe Air France Group in 1993. Mr. Gourgeon has occupied various positionswithin Air France since 1998, becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Air France-KLM until October 2011, date in which he leaves all his seats in the Group AirFrance KLM. Nowadays, he is member of the Board of Directors of GroupeSteria, French IT business services entity for private and public sector. Inaddition he is President of his own Firm PHGOURGEON, through which hedevelops his own professional consultancy activity.He joined the Board of Directors of Amadeus on December 29, 2005.
Mr. Christian Boireau(Board member representing Société Air France)Born on July 9, 1950.Mr. Boireau is a graduate in engineering from the ÉcolePolytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chausséesand holds a degree in economics from the Université ParisAssas. He held various positions of responsibility at Air France,including Executive Vice President, Passenger GeneralManagement and Executive Vice President of CorporateDevelopment, Air Inter. Currently, he is Executive VicePresident in charge of French Sales at Air France Group andChairman of the Supervisory Board of Transavia France an affiliate of Air France(60%) and Transavia-Netherlands (40%) based in Paris and specializing inleisure travel).He joined the Board of Directors of Amadeus on December 29, 2005.Mr. Stuart Anderson McAlpine(Independent Board Member)Born on October 8, 1966.Mr. McAlpine holds a degree in accounting from GlasgowUniversity. He worked for Ernst & Young, in both Boston andLondon. Subsequently, he worked for the Royal Bank ofScotland in their Leveraged Finance Group. Currently, he is apartner at Cinven, having joined the firm in 1996, where he is amember of the Healthcare and Business Services sector teams.He joined the Board of Directors of Amadeus on February 21, 2005.Mr. Francesco Loredan(Independent Board member)Born on September 7, 1958.Mr. Loredan is a graduate in economics from the London Schoolof Economics and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He worked as acredit officer in the corporate finance department of Bank ofAmerica-BAI in Milan for three years. He joined BC Partners in1989, where he is currently a managing partner and co-chairman,after four years with the Boston Consulting Group in Paris, where
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