Annual report - Sequana

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEESSequana1 Pascal Lebard, 47 years old,Chief Executive Officerof Sequana, Chief Executive Officerof Antalis and of Arjowiggins2 Hervé Poncin, 46 years old,Chief Operating Officer of Antalis63Guy Léonard, 57 years old,Chief Operating Officerof Arjowiggins and ManagingDirector of Arjowiggins’ CreativePapers division4 Xavier Roy-Contancin,51 years old, Group ChiefFinancial Officer5Isabelle Boccon-Gibod,42 years old, ExecutiveVice-President, Special Projects6 Antoine Courteault,53 years old, Company Secretary7 Gilles Raynaud, 54 years old,Group Human Resources Directorof finance, IT, internal audit, legal affairs, human resourcesand communications. Centralising certain functions at Grouplevel is designed to help the teams at Antalis and Arjowigginsin their day-to-day work and to unlock as many synergies aspossible throughout the Group.Moreover, Pascal Lebard, who was already Chairman ofArjowiggins, has taken up the same position with Antalis,thus consolidating Sequana’s operational brief.Rallying employeesSequana’s Board of Directors wanted its three-year businessplan to give the Group’s managers and executives as big astake as possible in its future earnings.In February 2010, Sequana set up a performance share planfor certain key managers that play a vital role in the Group.The plan is subject to the performance-contingent vestingcriteria set out in the Group’s three year-business plan.3The Group aims to foster loyalty amongits employees and to give them a stakein its future earnings by rallyingeveryone around a common project.AntalisAntalis’ Executive Committeecomprises eleven people of five differentnationalities and meets once a month.Its modus operandi was reviewedin early 2010 with the launch of RACE2012. This programme aims to boostoperational efficiency as well as productand service innovation and to leverageknow-how. It focuses particularlyon Europe.Managers from South America,South Africa and Asia as well ascertain functional heads (legal affairs,communication) now participatein Executive Committee meetings everyquarter or more frequently if necessary.This has helped streamline decisionmakingand boost the deploymentof RACE 2012.ArjowigginsSince the move to restructurethe divisions and give them greaterautonomy, Pascal Lebard has beenappointed Chief Executive Officerof Arjowiggins. He is assisted byan Executive Committee made upof five heads of divisions and theheads of the corporate functions.Sequana 15 2009 Annual report