Veolia Announces a New Governance to Support the Birth of the Global Champion of Ecological Transformation
10 Enero 2022 - 11:08AM
Business Wire
- The functions of President and Chief Executive Officer will
be separated as of July 1, 2022.
- The directors will propose to maintain Antoine Frérot as
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Veolia.
- Estelle Brachlianoff will be the next Chief Executive
Officer of Veolia and it will be proposed to the next General
Shareholders' Meeting that she joins its Board of
Directors.
Regulatory News:
A few days before the conclusion of a historic merger for Veolia
(Paris:VIE), which will increase its workforce from 180,000 to
230,000 employees and its revenues from €27 billion to €37 billion,
Veolia's Board of Directors decided at its meeting on January 10,
2022 to separate the functions of Chairman of the Board of
Directors from those of CEO.
Antoine Frérot had expressed his wish to step down as Chief
Executive Officer, which he has held since 2009, when his current
term of office expires. He therefore asked the Board of Directors
to instruct the Nominations Committee, with the support of a
recruitment firm, to conduct an in-depth search for the most
appropriate governance to manage a company that is changing in
scale and continuing to expand internationally.
The directors have expressed their unanimous wish that Antoine
Frérot remain Chairman of the Board of Directors of Veolia, so that
it can continue to benefit from his successful experience at the
head of the Group and his commitment to Veolia's values. To this
end, they will propose to the shareholders the renewal of his term
of office as director at the General Meeting of June 15, 2022.
The Board of Directors is pleased to be able to continue to
count on him as Chairman, and has already warmly thanked Antoine
Frérot for the 13 years that he has devoted to the group's general
management, and has unanimously paid tribute to the profound
transformations in organization, operation and culture that he has
carried out with total success in order to adapt Veolia to the
economic, commercial, social, societal and environmental challenges
related to ecological transformation.
Upon the proposal of the Nominations Committee, the Board of
Directors has also decided that Estelle Brachlianoff, Chief
Operating Officer, will succeed Antoine Frérot as Chief Executive
Officer of Veolia as of July 1, 2022. It will be proposed to the
shareholders that she joins the Board of Directors.
Estelle Brachlianoff joined the Group's Executive Committee in
2013 and was appointed by Antoine Frérot as Chief Operating Officer
in 2018. She will be in charge of managing and leading Veolia,
which has become, in ten years, the global champion of ecological
transformation. To carry out her new mission, she will be able to
count on the support of a renewed Executive Committee and
Management Committee, including some of the world's leading experts
in the Water, Waste and Energy businesses.
Antoine Frérot, Chairman and CEO, said: "Estelle has been
with Veolia for almost 20 years, and her exemplary career in France
and abroad has shown that she has all the qualities required to
lead our team and continue to support our Group in its ambition for
ecological transformation. By my side, she has taken part in the
most structuring decisions for our Group for the next twenty years.
I am therefore very pleased that she will be able to write a new
page in the history of Veolia, by making the world champion of
ecological transformation a reality. She has my full confidence to
lead this new phase and she can count on my full support. For my
part, as Chairman, I will ensure that the Board of Directors fully
exercises its role in governance, helping Veolia to pursue its
mission as a company that is useful to its stakeholders and true to
its purpose."
Estelle Brachlianoff, Executive Vice President, said:
"After four years of working with Antoine to meet exceptional
challenges, I am particularly honored to be entrusted with the
management of Veolia as of next semester. The company is profoundly
transformed, unified and more than ever ready to lead in each of
its businesses. I will be keen to continue, with all the 230,000
employees that our Group will comprise tomorrow, the efforts we
have been making for years to position Veolia as the benchmark
company with which local authorities and industries wish to carry
out their ecological transformation, and also the company in which
the younger generations, passionate about the environment, want to
work. To that end, I want Veolia to further accelerate the
diversification of its talents and continue to innovate strongly
for the planet."
Estelle Brachlianoff, born
in 1972, is an alumnus of the École Polytechnique and the École
Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She began her career in
transportation infrastructure and worked with the Préfet of the
Ile-de-France region on transportation issues. She joined Veolia in
2005 and became head of the Industrial Cleaning and Facility
Management activities in 2007, before heading the Waste activities
in Ile-de-France from 2010 and in the United Kingdom from 2012.
Between 2012 and 2018, she was Senior Executive Vice President UK
& Ireland and a member of Veolia's Executive Committee. She was
a member of the President's Committee of the Confederation of
British Industry (CBI) and President of the French Chamber of
Commerce in Great Britain. In July 2018, Estelle Brachlianoff was
appointed Chief Operating Officer member of the Group Executive
Committee.
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About Veolia Veolia Group aims to become the benchmark
company for ecological transformation. Present on five continents
with nearly 179,000 employees, the Group designs and deploys
useful, practical solutions for the management of water, waste and
energy that are contributing to a radical turnaround of the current
situation. Through its three complementary activities, Veolia helps
to develop access to resources, to preserve available resources and
to renew them. In 2020, the Veolia group served 95 million
inhabitants with drinking water and 62 million with sanitation,
produced nearly 43 million megawatt hours and recycled 47 million
tonnes of waste. Veolia Environment (Paris Euronext: VIE) achieved
consolidated sales of 26.010 billion euros in 2020.
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