Francis Mayer Joins Accor Supervisory Board
04 Mayo 2004 - 2:07PM
PR Newswire (US)
Francis Mayer Joins Accor Supervisory Board PARIS, May 4
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Francis Mayer, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Caisse des depots et consignations, has joined
Accor Supervisory Board. He was appointed today at the Annual
Meeting of Accor shareholders. Caisse des depots et consignations
is one of Accor's major shareholders. Francis Mayer is also
Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Caisse Nationale des
Caisses d'Epargne and a member of the Boards of Directors of
Casino-Guichard-Perrachon, Dexia and Veolia Environnement. Francis
Mayer, 53, graduated from France's Ecole Nationale d'Administration
in 1979 (Promotion Michel de l'Hospital) and is "agrege" in German.
He joined the French Treasury in 1979 and was appointed Deputy
Director, Assistant Secretary for the European and International
Affairs in 1994. Elected Chairman of the Paris Club in October
1997, Mr. Mayer became Vice President of European Investment Bank
(EIB) in 1999. He has served as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Caisse des depots et consignations since December 18,
2002. With 150,000 people in 140 countries, Accor is the European
leader and one of the world's largest groups in travel, tourism and
corporate services, with two major international activities: -
hotels: nearly 4,000 hotels (more than 450,000 rooms) in 90
countries, casinos, travel agencies, and restaurants; - services to
corporate clients and public institutions: 14 million people in 34
countries use a broad range of services (food vouchers, people care
and services, incentive, loyalty programs, events) engineered and
managed by Accor. Further information on Accor is available on
Internet at accor.com DATASOURCE: Accor CONTACT: Eliane Rouyer,
Director, Investor Relations for Accor, +33-(1)-4538-8626 Web site:
http://accor.com/
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