Governance

Né à Monaco en 1963, Jean-Luc Allavena est un homme d’affaires et dirigeant d’entreprise monégasque.

Diplômé d’HEC Paris en 1986, Jean-Luc Allavena commence sa carrière à la banque Paribas (1986-88), puis rejoint en 1989 le groupe Lyonnaise des Eaux – devenu Suez – en tant que contrôleur financier.

En 1992, il devient directeur financier de Techpack International. L’entreprise d’emballage de cosmétiques et produits de luxe, a été l’objet de l’un des premiers grands LBOs réalisés en France, avec Pechiney et LBO France comme actionnaires. Il est administrateur directeur général à partir de 1996, puis succède en mai 1999 au président fondateur de la société, Alain Chevassus. Quand Pechiney rachète la totalité du capital, Jean-Luc Allavena devient directeur de sa division cosmétologie-luxe.

En 2000, Arnaud Lagardère l’appelle à ses côtés comme directeur général adjoint de Lagardère Média, pour prendre en charge la stratégie de développement du groupe et améliorer sa rentabilité, mission dont il s’acquitte avec succès. Il devient parallèlement administrateur délégué de Lagardère Active (anciennement Europe 1 Communication) et administrateur des trois autres principales branches du groupe : Hachette Livre, Hachette Filipacchi Médias et Hachette Distribution Services.

Issu d’une famille monégasque ancienne, Jean-Luc Allavena dirige de 2005 à 2006 le cabinet de S.A.S. Prince Albert II de Monaco, chargé de l’organisation et des principales orientations du début de règne du nouveau souverain.

En 2007, Jean-Luc Allavena rejoint le fonds d’investissement Apollo Global Management à Londres en tant que Partner. Apollo est l’un des plus grands gestionnaires alternatifs d’actifs dans le monde avec un portefeuille d’environ 300 milliards de dollars. Il initie notamment le rachat en 2010 d’Alcan Engineered Products – ex-Pechiney, avec le Fonds stratégique d’investissement. L’entreprise, renommée Constellium, est cotée en bourse avec succès à New York en mai 2013. Désireux de financer de grands projets industriels français, Jean-Luc Allavena réalisera d’autres investissements industriels couronnés de succès parmi lesquels Monier, Latécoère, Verallia.

Il est aujourd’hui président et fondateur de Atlantys Investors qui travaille et investit avec Apollo et d’autres fonds. Il est administrateur du Groupe Verallia

Jean-Luc Allavena est engagé depuis plusieurs décennies dans le bénévolat associatif. Il a été président de l’Association des diplômés d’HEC de 2001 à 2003 puis président d’honneur, ainsi que président de la Fondation HEC (2003-2005) puis président d’honneur. Il a notamment été à l’origine des premières campagnes de fundraising auprès des diplômés d’HEC.

De 2010 à 2015 Jean-Luc Allavena est Président de la French-American Foundation (puis président d’honneur), qui se consacre à renforcer les liens entre la France et les États-Unis. Il est egalement President de l’Institut Aspen France.

Jacques Attali was born November 1, 1943. Polytechnique, special advisor to the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, for ten years, is the founder of four international institutions: Action against hunger, Eureka, EBRD and positive Planet. Jacques Attali writes over 1,000 editorials in the magazine Express and is the author of 80 books (essays, novels, biographies, theater) sold to 8 million copies and translated into 22 languages. He has directed several orchestras around the world.

EDUCATION

Graduated of ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration, SciencesPo (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris), La Sorbonne and HEC Business School (Haute Etudes Commerciales in Paris): regular speaker and teacher at these institutions as well as many prominent universities.

CAREER

Inspector, then Deputy Head of the Auditing Service of the French Ministry of Finance; Partner and Managing Director, Lazard (New York, London and Paris); President Jacques Chirac’s Deputy Personal Representative for Africa and spokesman for the working group on new international financial contributions to fight poverty and fund development; Chief Financial Officer at Credit Agicole and Societe Generale Group; Managing Director of the World Bank and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer; Representative of World Bank Group at FSB, G7 and G20; Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital; Member of a number of Boards, including Federation Internationale de L’automobile (FIA), Haulotte Group, Quest France, Euazeo, Wealth Simple, Getlink (Eurotunnel) and Liquidnet.

HOBBIES, INERESTS & CHARITIES

Recently authored the book “Can Finance Save the World?” with a forward from President Emmanuel Macron and Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Professor Bousmina’s background is in Physics, Physical Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. He got his Engineering diploma from École des Hauts Polymères de Strasbourg, France and MSc. from Louis Pasteur UniversityFrance. He then got a Ph.D. from Louis-Pasteur University of Strasburg (France) in collaboration with the University of  Chicago, USA and then a Post-Doc at École Polytechnique of Montreal.

He is presently:

• President of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fes, Morocco
• Chancellor of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco
• President of NASAC (Network of African Science Academies that gathers 28 Academies across the African continent)
• Member of WAAS (World Academy of Art and Science)
• Member of TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World)
• Member of AAS (African Academy of Sciences)
• Member of the Executive Board of IAP (InterAcademy Partnership), which gathers more than 140 Academies of Sciences across the world and from the five continents
• Member at large of Polymer Processing Society (PPS)
• Co-Editor of the Journal of Polymer Engineering (Edited by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, New-York.
• Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Edited by American Scientific Publisher. New-York.
• Regional Editor of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology (Bentham Science Publisher ISSN: 1872-2105 (Print).
• Associate Editor-in-Chief: Frontiers in Science and Engineering: Edited by the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology. Morocco
• Member of the Editorial Board of Discovery and Innovation journal: Edited by African Academy of Sciences and TWAS
• Member of the Editorial Board of J. of Polymer Processing, Edited by Hanser, New York.
• Member of the Board of Trustees of PSL University (Paris Sciences et Lettres)
• Honorary member of Mohamed V Foundation for Solidarity

He was:

• Senior Canada Research Chair on Polymer Physics and Nanomaterials at Laval University, Canada
• Full Professor at Laval University before that he was assistant professor and then associate professor (1994-2008). He resigned in 2008 from his life time position to go back to his home country
• Director of Polymer Engineering at Laval University, Canada
• Director of Polymer Physics and Nanoscience Lab. It was at that time the largest centre in Northe America
• Director of Graduate Studies, Laval University, Canada
• Co-Founder and Director General of MASciR (Moroccan Advanced Science, Innovation and Research Foundation). (2008-2011).
• Founder & Director General of INANOTECH (Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) (2008-2011); The largest research centre on Nanotechnology in Africa
• President of Quebec Society of Polymers
• Director of SPE (Society of Plastic Engineers): Quebec-Canada section (2002-2007)
• Vice-President of the Canadian Society of Rheology (2000-2008)
• Member of the Canada Team for Aerospace (which selects the experiments to be done in space in collaboration with the European Space Agency and with NASA: 2006-2008)
• Chair of the Canadian NSERC National evaluation committee for Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering section (2005-2008)
• Chair of the Canadian steering committee for the evaluation of the Arbora-Nano Research Center of Excellence (2008)
• Member of the Advisory Board of I3N Network of Portugal (2009-2014)
• Editor-in-Chief of Editor-in-Chief of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience (2010-2014) Edited by Bioinfo publisher
• President of the International Morand Lambla Award Committee of the International Polymer Processing Society (2007-2015)
• President of the International James. L. White Award Committee of the International Polymer Processing Society (2007-2015)
• International representative for the Polymer Processing Society (2006-2015)
• Official examiner of l’Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec, Canada (IOQ) (1996-2008)
• Official consultant for the Canadian government for the evaluation of research in industry (2004-2008)
• Consultant for Total, Inc (2004-2008); Consultant for IPL (2001-2006); Consultant for Bouch. Mac, Inc (20012007); Consultant for (Canadian Plastics Industry Association: CPIA: 1999-2006).
• President of S2M-NANOTECH (Société Marocaine sur les Matériaux et Nanomatériaux),

Awards:  

1. The Grand Prize on Innovation in Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education, Morocco, 2009
2. The prestigious STEACIE fellowship, which is considered as one of the highest distinctions in Canada from the NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada), in 2004
3. Canada’s Top Twenty Researchers Prize from CIAR (Canada Institute for Advanced Science) in 2002: The best twenty researchers of Canada under the age of 45
4. International Morand Lambla Award from Polymer Processing Society, in 2000. The best researcher at international level in the field of Polymers, Polymer Physics, Polymer Chemistry and Polymer Processing
5. Award of Innovative research from the Ministry of Industry of Canada, 1999   Louis-Pasteur Award, France, in 1994.

Track record in terms of publications and scientific dissemination:

• 212 indexed publications in International peer reviewed Journals
• 6 Patents: One patent has been translated into business
• 1 book in press on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; 9 book chapters
• H-index of 43 in Web of Science, 44 in Scopus and 50 in Google Scholar (May 2018)
• Number of Citations: more than 6800 in Web of Science & 10500 in Google Scholar (May 2018)
• More than 300 invited speaker in international conferences (excluding the ones organized in home country)
• 63 Plenary and Keynote lectures in International Congresses (excluding the ones organized in home country)
• More than 60 invited Conferences in Universities at international level (excluding universities from home country)  More than 30 Lectures in Industry (excluding home country)

Track record in terms of HQP supervision (Highly Qualified Personnel)

Has directly trained and supervised as Director of Research Centre more than 200 Ph.Ds; MSc.s (research: NAS); PDF (Post-doctoral Fellow); Research Associates; Engineers & Technicians

Teaching: He taught Polymers, Rheology, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena & Heat transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Materials engineering.

Anne Bouverot is former Chair and CEO of Morpho, a world leader in security and identity solutions, employing more than 8,600 people in 55 countries and generating revenues of €2bn. Prior to joining Morpho, Ms. Bouverot spent 4 years as Director General of GSMA, the international association of mobile network operators.  Previously, she was Executive Vice President, Mobiel Services at Orange. She began her career as IT project manager with Telmex in Mexico.

Anne Bouverot is a Board Member of CapGemini, Cellnex Telecom, Edenred and Ledger, and Chair of Fondation Abeona (Data Science for Fairness & Equality).

She is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris in Mathematics. She holds a Masters in Telecommunications Engineering and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

Bruno BOUYGUES is serving as CEO of GYS since 2004

Before graduating in 2002 from INSEAD (Singapore) with an MBA, Bruno studied at ESTP (France) & MIT (USA), where he obtained his Masters of Sciences in 1999. He also started his professional career in the Investment Banking arms of Merrill Lynch and Société Générale where he spent 3 years as Analyst and Associate.

After his MBA, he worked for 2 years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman before joining GYS in 2004 as CEO and then President.

GYS is a family-owned industrial group, headquartered in France, with over 700 employees in 6 countries (France, UK, Germany, Italia, Morocco, India & China). GYS engineers and manufactures welding & charging equipment and solutions. The group is positioned as one of the world’s technological leaders in its fields.

Aside from his professional endeavors, Bruno is a CCE, a Young Leader from the France-China foundation and a member of the YPO network. Bruno is married to Heyoung Lee Bouygues, the founder of the Reboot Foundation.

Olivier Campenon was appointed CEO of Lefebvre Sarrut in May 2018.

He is currently Vice-President of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce, the first business network between France and Great Britain.

He is also the founder and CEO of La Financière de la Clarté, a consulting firm in digitalisation, providing support to CEOs in their digital transformation and to start-ups in their strategic development and fund raising.

Olivier brings over 20 years of international experience as an executive in the ICT sector.

He worked for BT (British Telecom) where he led and developed the French activities, then expanded BT operations in many new countries in his role as President of EMEA (Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Olivier began his career as consultant with Arthur Andersen, then joined AT&T, the American Telecom operator. In 1997, he was appointed Managing Director of SIRIS, a telecommunications business operator in France.  He then became President of T-Systems France, the enterprise branch of Deutsche Telekom group.

He is also a member of the advisory board of the Professional Women’s Network (PWN France) and a member of the ETI Club.

Olivier graduated in 1986 from Supélec – Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, one of the leading French engineering schools. He is married with three children.

Thierry Drilhon has 35 years of experience in the technology, digital and innovation industries, having worked as an international top executive for major companies such as Microsoft and Cisco Corp. where he became Senior Vice President in 2007, based in Paris and San Francisco and a member of the WW Executive Committee and European Board. In 2012, he joined Euro Media Group in Paris as Chairman and CEO.

A profound “Franco and European optimist”, Thierry was elected President of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce & Industry in June 2018, thus putting his international experience (to work) to promote Franco-British business relations. In January 2019, he became Chief Executive Officer of the French Federation of Cardiology, the leading organisation to fight cardiovascular illnesses. Thierry is also on the Board of Directors for Beijaflore and Synapscore.

Thierry is 54 years old, he graduated from EAD Paris and Stanford University (USA) and has 3 children & 2 grandchildren.

Eric Labaye is President of École Polytechnique, a major French institution of higher education and research in sciences and engineering. He is also leading the creation of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, an alliance between École Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, ENSAE ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis. He is a member of the board of Telecom Paris Tech, the International Advisory Board of ESSEC, and the Board of Advisors of the School of Public Affairs at Sciences Po.

In his previous role, Eric Labaye was Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and Chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), its business & economic research arm. Prior to this, he was Managing Director of the France office and led the firm’s Global Knowledge and Communications function, as a member of the Global Operating Committee. He was also a member of the Shareholders Council of the firm (its Global Board) for ten years, of which he chaired the Client Committee.

At McKinsey, Eric Labaye worked extensively for clients globally in the Telecom, High-tech and industrial sectors, and also for governments and public institutions on a variety of strategic and operational issues including major transformation programs, growth and R&D topics, development of agile organizations, acquisitions, post-merger management, and digitization.

He conducted many research projects with MGI and in France on key economic topics, including growth in Europe, productivity, digitalization, future of work and inequality. Eric Labaye also initiated and co-led McKinsey’s “Women Matter” research program, which, since 2007, aims to promote gender diversity in large companies’ senior management. He was a member of the Commission “Release Growth in France”, from 2007 to 2010, and a member of the French National Economic Commission from 2005 to 2014.

Eric Labaye is a graduate from École Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech and holds an MBA with distinction (Henry Ford II award) from INSEAD.

Anne Lange is an entrepreneur and a sought after C-level business advisor with over 25 years of experience in technology innovation and public sector transformation.

She is the founder and managing partner of Adara, a consulting company that provides senior-level advice in group/organization governance, including strategy process, transformational projects and governance improvement. Amazon, ATKearney, BearingPoint, Dubai2020 are among its clients. On behalf of the French Government, she has recently launched the Think Tank dedicated to the preparation of Dubai 2020 international expo, so called “Connecting Minds”, and involving some of the most influent CAC40 leaders.

Anne is the co-founder and former CEO of Mentis Services, an IoT data intelligent software provider of urban space services, recently sold.

She also serves on the executive board of Orange (French leading service provider), Pernod-Ricard (second largest wine and spirits company in the world), Econocom (Leading European provider of business to business digital services), Imprimerie Nationale (France’s National Printing House).

Prior to this, Anne worked in diverse global executive functions with Cisco since 2004, based out of France and Silicon Valley. As a C-level executive, her engagements centered on adoption and innovation of technological, organizational and business processes to drive business transformation.

Anne’s career began at the French Prime Minister’s office as head of department for state-owned broadcasting companies until she joined Thomson, a high-tech champion, where she built up a new generation of consumer internet access devices. Anne is a graduate of French grandes ecoles, Science Po (Political Science) and ENA (Public Administration).

Maurice Lévy is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Publicis Groupe, the leader in business, marketing and communications transformation. He joined Publicis in 1971 as IT Director, and was appointed CEO of Publicis Conseil, the Groupe’s flagship agency, in 1981. He was named CEO of Publicis Groupe in 1987, a role that he fulfilled for 30 years until being named Chairman of the Supervisory Board as of June 1, 2017. He was responsible for transforming Publicis from a great, French creative agency into a global leader, covering all segments of the advertising industry. With spectacular acquisitions such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Bcom3 (Leo Burnett, Starcom, Mediavest) Zenith or in the digital space with Digitas, Performics, Razorfish, Rosetta and Sapient, today Publicis represents more than 80,000 talents, $10 billion in revenue and is present in more than 104 countries.
In 2016, to celebrate Publicis Groupe’s 90th anniversary, Maurice Lévy was determined to look to the future rather than the past, keeping in line with Publicis’ pioneering spirit. The result was two initiatives – Publicis90, through which Publicis Groupe invested in 90 promising startups and Viva Technology Paris, a global event dedicated to the collaboration between large companies and startups.
Widely recognized as a leading figure in the communications industry, Mr. Lévy also co-founded the French Brain Institute (ICM) in 2005, and serves as the Chairman of the board for several entities, including the International Board of Governors for the Peres Center for Peace. In 2015, he was appointed Chairman of the Pasteur-Weizmann Institute. Mr. Lévy has been honored with numerous distinctions and accolades for his contributions to media, business leadership, tolerance and peace. Mr. Lévy holds the distinctions of Commandeur of the French Légion d’Honneur and Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite.

Marc has 30 years of experience as a technology and business leader of large mobile networks vendors and pioneered the first ever commercial grade GSM voice calls in 1988 with Matra Communication. Marc has served on executive committees for the last two decades. As Nokia Chief Operating Officer and Chief Innovation Officer, he managed the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent and the digital transformation of Nokia, serving also as chairman of the board of Alcatel-Lucent; overseeing Nokia technology and Bell Labs research. Recently, President of Nokia’s largest business, he has introduced very large-scale collaboration and information sharing, and championed an open approach in the industry. This radical refactoring of Nokia networks software and chipset technology has powered his business to the first position of the 5G vendors at the end of 2018, with major 5G business wins in USA and Asia. Marc is also an entrepreneur, being the founder and chairman of Dhatim, that has developed an AI-centered suite of applications to solve specific procurement, finance and even HR business challenges. PhD in information theory and graduate from Supélec, he is passionate about sailing, and drives the Nokia/Hugo-Boss project to bring Alex Thomson and his boat to victory in the 2020 Vendée Globe.

Guy is a chemist who started his career surprisingly by joining Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and he so enjoyed this experience that he never left Telecommunications and Digital activities.

He served as CEO with Motorola Group and Ericsson in France and in international assignments.

In parallel he was active in professional mandates as chairing Strategic Committee for Digital Sector, Alliance TICS, ministerial group for Spectrum Dividende, Fontainebleau Business Incubator and Esigetel ( Electronics engineers School).

He represented European telecommunications industry in Brussels DGXIII TCAM.

He served as a member on Radiocommunications Advisory Commission, Digital Superior Council, ARCEP Forsight Committee, Idate Board, and New Caledonia Digital Development Board.

He is today a member of Economy General Council,  chairman of Fondation Mines-Telecom and chairs AFD Technology Strategic advisory Board.

Guy is a Knight of the Order of Legion of Honour, French National Order of Merit and Academic Palms.

Michel is the former Group President of Hertz International, the leading global car rental brand, where he was responsible for all of its wholly owned and franchise operations in 150 countries across all continents, outside North America.
Over his 38 year career in the constantly transforming car rental business, Michel has progressed through the organisation, holding numerous leadership positions in operational, commercial, country and divisional management.
Most recently, Michel has been championing the « smart mobility » strategies for Hertz, working closely with start ups and incubators.
Since he moved on from Hertz in April 2019, Michel is now an Advisor and a Consultant focusing on Travel, Transportation and Smart Mobility.
He is the Chair of the Advisory Board for the GTTP (Global Travel and Tourism Partnership), a non for profit organisation that supports education programs enabling each year 700,000 students from 15 emerging countries to build careers in Travel and Tourism.
He is also an Ambassador for the WTTC (World Travel and Tourism Council), and a Foreign Trade Advisor to the French Embassy in London.
Michel developed an early passion for travel, world cultures, and entrepreneurship, having lived in Morocco, France, Italy, and currently in London with his family.
He took a gap year at age 26 to « discover the world » and is an accomplished musician who loves travelling, sailing and mountaineering.