REGISTRATION DOCUMENT AND FINANCIAL REPORT - Iliad

14. ADMINISTRATIVE, MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY
BODIES AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT
14.1 MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE, MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY BODIES
For the purposes of their directorships, directors are domiciled at the Company’s head office.
To the best of the Company’s knowledge, in the past five years, none of its directors have been:
• convicted of fraud, charged with any other offence or had any official public disciplinary action taken
against them by statutory or regulatory authorities;
• involved in a bankruptcy, receivership or liquidation as a corporate officer or director;
• disqualified by a court from acting as a member of the administrative, management or supervisory bodies of
an issuer or from acting in the management or conduct of the affairs of any issuer.
The biographies of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors are provided below:
Cyril Poidatz. Before joining the Group, Cyril Poidatz worked for ten years at Cap Gemini. For several years he
served as Finance Director for Cap Gemini Italia, heading the restructuring of Cap Gemini’s Italian divisions.
Cyril Poidatz began his career as an auditor with Coopers & Lybrand. He joined the Group in 1998.
Maxime Lombardini. Maxime Lombardini was born in 1965. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and holds a
degree in business and tax law (Paris II – Assas). He held successive positions as General Secretary of TPS,
Development Director of TF1 and Managing Director of TF1 Production. Between 1996 and 1999, he was
General Secretary of TPS (a subsidiary of TF1 and M6), where he participated in the launch of the satellite
package. He then held the position of Development Director of TF1, where he reviewed and implemented the
group’s growth strategy. In 2003, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of TF1 Production, a subsidiary of
the TF1 Group, a post he occupied until 2007. He held directorships in TF1 Expansion (shareholder), Syalis
(shareholder), TCM (management of audiovisual rights), TPS (satellite programs) and the Group’s various
production subsidiaries.
Michaël Boukobza. Michaël Boukobza holds a Master’s degree in Management (Paris IX Dauphine) and
graduated from the École Supérieure de Commerce in Paris. He began his career in the mergers & acquisitions
departments of Rothschild in Paris and Morgan Stanley in London. He went on to work with i-Bazar in
fundraising and mergers & acquisitions. Michaël Boukobza joined the Group in January 2000.
Xavier Niel. Xavier Niel is the Group’s founder and majority shareholder. He has been active in the data
communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, prior to devoting
himself full-time to the Group’s development, he founded France’s first ISP, Worldnet, which was sold to
Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. Xavier Niel is the architect behind the Group’s major strategic
developments, from the launch of the ANNU service to its Internet access offer (based on the business model of
France Telecom’s repayment scheme) to the launch of the Freebox project.
Olivier Rosenfeld. A graduate of the École de Commerce Solvay, Olivier Rosenfeld began his career with
Merrill Lynch’s investment banking division, where he worked on privatization projects before joining the
Goldman Sachs team handling primary issues in New York and Hong Kong. Olivier Rosenfeld joined the Group
in January 2001.
Alain Weill. Alain Weill holds a degree in economics and is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Affaires.
Between 1985 and 1989 he was Network Director for NRJ S.A., then Chief Executive Officer of Quarare
(Sodexho Group). In 1990, he joined the management team of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion
(CLT), then became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the network, a subsidiary of CLT and the Spanish
group SER. In 1992, he was appointed to the senior management team of the NRJ Group, followed by NRJ
Régies in 1995, where he has served as Deputy Chairman of the Management Board since 1997. He has served as
Chairman of Next Radio S.A. since November 8, 2000, and is Chairman of RMC, BFM and BFM TV.
Jean-Louis Missika. Jean-Louis Missika holds a doctoral degree (Doctorat d’État) in Management (Paris IX
Dauphine) and degrees from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and the Institut d’Études Supérieures de
Sciences Économiques (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) and a degree in philosophy (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne). He
began his career as adviser to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Antenne 2, the French public
broadcaster, from 1979 to 1984. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jean-Louis Missika
SAS, a consulting firm specializing in media strategies, new media and communications strategies.
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