Capgemini SE : Capgemini's Board of Directors decides to co-opt Laura Desmond as Director
December 05 2018 - 11:40AM
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Capgemini's Board of Directors decides to co-opt
Laura Desmond as Director
Paris, December
5th, 2018 - The Board of Directors of
Capgemini SE, meeting on December 5th, 2018, decided to appoint by
co-optation[1] a new
director, Laura Desmond, following a proposal by the Ethics and Governance committee chaired by the Lead
Independent Director.
Laura Desmond is Founder and CEO
of Eagle Vista Partners, a strategic advisory and investment
firm focused on marketing and digital technology and has been a
member of Adobe's Board of Directors since 2012. She will bring to
the Board of Directors of Capgemini SE her wealth of experience in
digital strategy, data analytics and content, developed as a
seasoned executive and Director at key industry players servicing
leading clients. Laura is an American citizen and lives in
Chicago.
Paul Hermelin, Chairman and CEO,
Capgemini Group, declares "My fellow directors and
I are delighted to welcome Laura to our board. As a true industry
game changer, she brings us a unique combination of technology,
digital and content market expertise as well as a managerial and
governance experience honed at prestigious firms. I am eager to
have Laura contribute to our digital journey and global
expansion."
"I am looking
forward to sharing, as a director, Capgemini's challenges and
opportunities. Its success in pivoting its business toward Cloud
and Digital have impressed me, as well as its management ability to
build and steer a truly multicultural firm and make it one of the
key leaders of an everchanging industry," said Laura
Desmond.
Laura Desmond's nomination will be
effective from January 1st, 2019. Her
appointment reflects the Board's ambition to further the
internationalization of its composition, deepen industry expertise
and enrich the diversity of its profiles. As of January
1st, 2019,
Capgemini SE's Board of Directors will comprise 13 directors,
including two directors representing employees. 80% of the
directors will be independent[2], 23% with
an international profile and 45% women[3].
Biography:
Laura Desmond,
Founder & CEO of Eagle Vista Partners
Laura Desmond has been a member of Adobe's Board of Directors since
2012; Syniverse Technologies (2016) and is Lead Director of
Double Verify (2017). She is Founder and CEO of Eagle Vista
Partners, a strategic advisory and investment firm focused on
marketing and digital technology. Prior to this, she was the Chief
Revenue Officer of Publicis Groupe, from December 2016 to December
2017. From 2008 to December 2016, she was the Global Chief
Executive Officer of Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG), a global
marketing and media services company which is part of Publicis
Groupe. Prior to her appointment as Global Chief Executive Officer
in 2008, Desmond was Chief Executive Officer of SMG - The
Americas from 2007 to 2008, where she managed a network spanning
the United States, Canada and Latin America. Laura was Chief
Executive Officer of MediaVest, based in New York, from 2003
to 2007, and from 2000 to 2002 she was Chief Executive Officer of
SMG's Latin America group. Laura previously served as director of
Tremor Video, Inc. from January 2012 to September 2013. She holds a
B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Iowa.
Laura and Eagle Vista Partners are both based in Chicago.
Note to
editors:
A high-resolution photograph of Laura Desmond is available on
request.
About Capgemini
A global leader in consulting,
technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the
forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients'
opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and
platforms. Building on its strong 50-year heritage and deep
industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to
realize their business ambitions through an array of services from
strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that
the business value of technology comes from and through people. It
is a multicultural company of 200,000 team members in over 40
countries. The Group reported 2017 global revenues of EUR 12.8
billion.
Visit us at www.capgemini.com. People matter,
results count.
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[1] Laura
Desmond will serve the remainder of Carole Ferrand's mandate until
2020 at the AGM convened to approve the 2019 statutory accounts. As
a reminder Carole Ferrand stepped down from the Board on May
28th.
[2] The
directors representing employees and employee shareholders are not
taken into account in calculating this percentage, in accordance
with the provisions of the AFEP-MEDEF Code.
[3] The two
directors representing employees are not taken into account in
calculating this percentage, in accordance with Article L.225-27 of
the French Commercial Code (Code de
Commerce).
Capgemini's Board of Directors
decides to co-opt Laura Desmond
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