VINCI - 2008 annual report

1.3 Director whose appointment ended in 2008 (*)
Quentin Davies
Age 64
House of Commons
London SWIA OAA
United Kingdom
Director from 10 May 1999 to 11 September
2000 and from 14 May 2003 to 6 October
2008
Report of the Board of Directors
Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, at the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom
Quentin Davies is also a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament.
Appointments that have expired during the last fi ve fi nancial years: Director of VINCI, Director of Lloyds of London.
Background: Quentin Davies is British and a graduate of Cambridge and Harvard. He held several positions in the British Diplomatic
Service from 1967 before joining Morgan Grenfell in 1974, where he was head of Corporate Finance. He served in the UK Parliament
as a Conservative Member from 1987 to 2007 and was successively Opposition Spokesman for Social Security and Pensions, for
Treasury matters, for Defence and for Northern Ireland. He was a Director of VINCI from 1999 to 2000 and from 2003 to 2008.
He joined the Labour Party in June 2007. Since 5 October 2008 he has been Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, at the United
Kingdom Ministry of Defence.
(*) Quentin Davies’ appointment was renewed at the Shareholders’ General Meeting of 15 May 2008 for a four-year term, until the General Meeting called to approve the fi nancial statements for the year
ending 31 December 2011.
1.4 Senior Executive Vice-President not serving on the Board of Directors
whose appointment ended in 2008
Jacques Tavernier
Age 59
Eurovia
18, place de l’Europe
92851 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex
Senior Executive Vice President from 15 May
2006 to 28 March 2008
Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of Eurovia and Member of the Executive Committee of VINCI
Main appointments within the VINCI group: Director of Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires; member of the Supervisory Board of Eurovia
GmbH and of VINCI Deutschland GmbH (Germany); member of the Executive Board of Stavby Silnic A Zeleznic (Czech Republic);
Director of the Fondation d’Entreprise VINCI pour la Cité and the Fondation d’Entreprise Eurovia.
Appointments outside the VINCI group: member of the Board of Directors of École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, as a “qualifi ed
public fi gure”.
Appointments within the VINCI group that have expired during the last fi ve fi nancial years: Senior Executive Vice President of
VINCI; Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of ASF; Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer of ASF Holding; Director and Chief Executive
Offi cer of VINCI Concessions; permanent representative of VINCI Concessions on the Board of Directors of Arcour and Cofi route
Holding, of VINCI on the Board of Directors of Cofi route and SMTPC, of ASF on the Board of Directors of Escota.
Appointments outside the VINCI group that have expired during the last fi ve fi nancial years: Director of Lorry Rail SA.
Background: Jacques Tavernier is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He worked
as an engineer in local government in Seine-Saint-Denis near Paris from 1975 to 1982, was involved in management of investment
in roads at the Ministry of Capital Works from 1983 to 1986, and was then a chargé de mission at DATAR from 1986 to 1989. From
1989 to 1991, he was in charge of town planning and housing in local government in Ile de France (the Greater Paris region), then
technical adviser to Paul Quilès (French Minister for Capital Works, Housing, Transport and Space) from 1991 to 1992, general manager
of the public corporation responsible for creating the Sénart new town from 1992 to 1993, and was in charge of capital works for the
Hauts-de-Seine département from 1993 to 1998. He was Chief Executive Offi cer of ASF from 1998 to 2006, its Chairman and Chief
Executive Offi cer from 2006 to September 2007, then its Chairman until December 2007. He was also Director-Chief Executive Offi cer
of VINCI Concessions from March 2006 until October 2007. Since 9 January 2008, he has been Chairman and Chief Executive Offi cer
of Eurovia.
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