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Current Directors
BRUNO BONNELL
Born on October 6, 1958
Age: 56
Business address:
1, rue du Docteur Fleury-Pierre Papillon – 69100
Villeurbanne – France
Number of DANONE shares held
as of December 31, 2014: 4,000
Independent Director
French nationality
Principal responsibility: Chairman of I-VOLUTION
Personal background –
experience and expertise:
Bruno BONNELL was born in Algiers, Algeria in 1958.
He received a degree in chemical engineering at CPE
Lyon (École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique
de Lyon) and another in applied economics from the
University of Paris-Dauphine (class of 1982).
He began his career at Thomson SDRM as a business
engineer responsible for launching and marketing the
company’s first computer, the T07.
In June 1983, Bruno BONNELL founded Infogrames,
which in 2000 merged with Atari (listed on the NYSE
Euronext). In 1995, he co-founded Infonie, the first
Internet service provider in France.
He left Infogrames in April 2007 and founded Robopolis, a company that specializes in service robotics and
distributes robots aimed at the household market. The
company has operations in seven European countries.
In 2010, he founded Awabot, a robotic platform services
company that specializes in telepresence robots. That
same year, he founded the French Federation of Service
Robotics (Syndicat de la Robotique de Service – SYROBO)
and serves as its Chairman.
In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of
Directors of EM Lyon Business School.
He is a member of the Management Board of Pathé SAS
and of the Board of Directors of April SA. He has also
been a member of the Supervisory Board of Banque
Rhône-Alpes since 2013.
Together with his Orkos Capital partners, in March
2014 he created Robolution Capital, a private equity
fund that focuses on service robotics.
Positions and responsibilities as of December 31, 2014 (a)
Positions
Companies
Director (term of office
from February 18, 2002
to the end of the Shareholders’ Meeting to approve the 2016 financial
statements)
DANONE SA (b)
Countries
France
APRIL SA (b)
France
AWABOT SAS
France
I-VOLUTION SAS
France
SOROBOT SAS
France
Director
ROBOPOLIS SAS
France
Member of the
Management Board
PATHÉ SAS
France
Member of the
Supervisory Board
BANQUE RHONE-ALPES
France
Positions
Associations/Foundations/Other
Chairman of the Board
of Directors
EMLYON BUSINESS SCHOOL
France
Chairman
FRENCH FEDERATION OF SERVICE ROBOTICS
(SYROBO)
France
Founding partner
ROBOLUTION CAPITAL (professional private
equity fund)
France
Member of the Board of
Directors’ Social Responsibility Committee
(since February 14,
2007)
Director
Member of the Sustainable Development
Committee
Member of the Strategy
Committee
Chairman
Countries
(a) Offices shown in italics are not governed by Article L. 225-21 of the French commercial
code concerning multiple directorships.
(b) Listed company.
Positions and responsibilities held in the past five years
Positions
Companies
Member of the
Supervisory Board
ANF IMMOBILIER SA (a)
Countries
France
ZSLIDE SA
France
(a) Listed company.
Bruno BONNELL has written two books on new technologies: Pratique de l’ordinateur familial (1983) and Viva
la robolution (2010).
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