Bpce:Eric Fougère voted Chairman of the Groupe BPCE Supervisory
Board
Eric Fougère voted Chairman of the Groupe BPCE
Supervisory Board
Paris, May 23, 2024
The Supervisory Board, convening today
after the Groupe BPCE General Meeting, voted to appoint Eric
Fougère – Chairman of the Steering & Supervisory Board of
Caisse d'Epargne Bourgogne Franche-Comté - as Chairman of the
Groupe BPCE Supervisory Board as a replacement for Thierry
Cahn. Marie Pic-Pâris Allavena – Chairwoman of the
Board of Directors of Banque Populaire Rives de Paris – was elected
Vice-Chairwoman of the Groupe BPCE Supervisory Board.
The Supervisory Board thanked Thierry Cahn
warmly for his commitment and hailed his contribution to the Group
and all its companies during his term of office as Chair of the
Supervisory Board and notably for the appointment of a new
Management Board led by Nicolas Namias.
For Thierry Cahn, former Chairman of the
Groupe BPCE Supervisory Board: “I end my term of office as
Chairman of the Supervisory Board today with a feeling of
satisfaction for the work accomplished and for having taken part in
some important moments in our Group’s history characterized by
transformation, development and a seamless evolution of our
governance. I would like to thank all of the Board for the quality
of our relations as well as Groupe BPCE’s people for their
professionalism, and I wish my successor on the Board, Eric
Fougère, every success in the future”.
For Eric Fougère, Chairman of the Groupe
BPCE Supervisory Board: “First of all, I would like to pay
homage to Thierry Cahn for chairing the BPCE Supervisory Board with
panache for the last three years. Working as Vice-Chairman
alongside him, I learned a lot from his strategic vision and his
continuous attention to ensuring the smooth-running of the Board. I
thank him sincerely for his support and goodwill. My appointment
occurs at a time when Groupe BPCE is gearing up to unveil its new
strategic plan under the stewardship of Nicolas Namias, Chair of
the Management Board. Along with all Supervisory Board members, I
will be striving to ensure the Group achieves its new ambitions in
a manner that respects the roles of all. Our cooperative model,
embodied by the Banques Populaires and the Caisses d’Épargne, is a
source of solidity for Groupe BPCE and underpins our trajectory of
lasting growth. Firmly rooted in our regions, but also facing out
to Europe and the world, this model guarantees our continuing
commitment to serving our customers and cooperative
shareholders”.
Biography of Eric Fougère, Chairman of
the Groupe BPCE Supervisory Board
Eric Fougère holds a master’s degree in Senior
Management in the Banking Industry from the Centre d’Etudes
Supérieures Bancaires in Paris, and has been Chief Financial
Officer and Member of the Managing Board of Groupe Louis Latour in
Beaune since 2006.
He began his career with Le Crédit Lyonnais
(LCL) where he was notably responsible for the corporate customer
franchise in the Bourgogne Franche-Comté region.
Since 2013 he has played an active role in the
governance of Caisse d’Epargne Bourgogne Franche-Comté, firstly as
a member of the Sud Côte d’Or Local Cooperative Shareholder Board,
then as Chairman of the same Local Cooperative Shareholder Board in
January 2015. In April of the same year he was appointed member of
the Steering & Supervisory Board and then became Chairman of
the Risk Committee.
In 2019 he was appointed Chairman of the
Steering & Supervisory Board of Caisse d’Epargne Bourgogne
Franche-Comté and member of the BPCE Supervisory Board.
In 2021 he was named Vice-Chairman of the BPCE
Supervisory Board.
Biography of Marie
Pic-Pâris Allavena, Vice-Chairwoman of the Groupe BPCE Supervisory
Board.
After graduating from ESSEC, Marie Pic-Paris
Allavena began her career in the banking industry with BNP Paribas
and then the Crédit Agricole group where she acquired solid
expertise in structuring complex aircraft and LBO financing
deals.
In 1994 she founded Futurekids, a chain of IT
schools set up to initiate children in new technologies from the
age of three. After selling her company in 2002, she held executive
positions in consulting firms, including with the Bernard Julhiet
group.
In 2007 she joined the Eyrolles group – an
independent, family-owned publishing group founded almost 100 years
ago – and became Chief Executive Officer in 2008. In her more-than
15 years in this role, she has reshaped the group’s catalog to
include works for the general public and novels. She also played a
pioneering role in the development of e-books.
Since 2019 Marie Pic-Paris Allavena has also
chaired the Board of Directors of Banque Populaire Rives de Paris
and been a board member of TF1.
She has been a member of the BPCE Supervisory
Board since 2021.In addition to the Chair of the Supervisory Board,
Eric Fougère, the six other members designated by
the Caisses d’Epargne are :
Chairs of Caisse d’Epargne Steering
& Supervisory Boards :
-
Françoise Lemalle - Caisse d’Epargne Côte
d’Azur
- Benoit
Pellerin - Caisse d’Epargne Normandie
- Philippe
Rougeot - Caisse d'Epargne Languedoc Roussillon
- Valérie
Savani – Caisse d’Epargne Loire-Centre
Chairs of Caisse
d’Epargne Management Boards :
-
Christine Fabresse - Caisse d’Epargne CEPAC
- Didier
Patault - Caisse d’Epargne Ile-de-France
In addition to the Vice-Chair of the Supervisory
Board, Marie Pic-Pâris Allavena, the six other
members designated by the Banques Populaires are
:
Chairs of Banque Populaire Boards of
Directors :
-
Catherine Mallet - Banque Populaire Occitane
- François
Brun - Casden
- Philippe
Henri - Banque Populaire Méditerranée
- Jérôme
Saddier - Crédit Coopératif
Banque Populaire Chief Executive
Officers :
-
Benoît Catel - Banque Populaire Grand Ouest
-
Daniel Karyotis - Banque Populaire Auvergne Rhône
Alpes
The three independent members are
:
-
Valérie Pancrazi, Chair of Vap Conseils
-
Anne-Claude Pont, Chair of Wilov
-
Kadidja Sinz, President, Liberty International
Insurance Europe
The two employee representatives,
designated by the representative union organizations
are :
-
Bertrand Guyard, CFDT
-
Nicolas Getti, UNSA
The following also participate in the capacity
of non-voting members :
-
André Joffre, Chair of Fédération Nationale des
Banques Populaires, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Banque
Populaire du Sud
-
Alain Di Crescenzo, Chair of Fédération Nationale
des Caisses d’Epargne, Chairman of the Steering & Supervisory
Board of Caisse d’Epargne Midi-Pyrénées
-
Jean-Paul Julia, Chief Executive Officer of BRED
Banque Populaire
-
Bruno Deletré, Chairman of the Management Board of
Caisse d’Epargne Grand Est Europe
-
Frédérique Destailleur, Chairman of the Management
Board of Caisse d’Epargne Aquitaine Poitou Charentes
-
Mathieu Requillart, Chief Executive Officer of
Banque Populaire Val de France
And the representative of the BPCE employee
council :
The Groupe BPCE Management Board, chaired by
Nicolas Namias, comprises :
-
Béatrice Lafaurie, Head of Human Resources
-
Hélène Madar, Head of Retail Banking &
Insurance
-
Jérôme Terpereau, Head of Finance
About Groupe
BPCEGroupe BPCE is the second-largest banking group in
France. Through its 100,000 staff, the group serves 35 million
customers – individuals, professionals, companies, investors and
local government bodies – around the world. It operates in the
retail banking and insurance fields in France via its two major
networks, Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne, along with Banque
Palatine and Oney. It also pursues its activities worldwide with
the asset & wealth management services provided by Natixis
Investment Managers and the wholesale banking expertise of Natixis
Corporate & Investment Banking. The Group's financial strength
is recognized by four credit rating agencies with the following
senior preferred LT ratings: Moody's (A1, stable outlook), Standard
& Poor's (A, stable outlook), Fitch (A+, stable outlook) and
R&I (A+, stable outlook).
Press Contact Groupe BPCE Christophe Gilbert: 33
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