THE GROUP

Jean-Paul Bailly has devoted all of his career to public service, by participating in the management and running of two major public companies, the RATP and then La Poste. He started his career in 1970 at the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP). In 1978, he ran the Direction de la Coopération Française in Mexico. He joined RATP again in 1982, where he was notably Director of Bus Rolling Equipment, Director of the Metro and RER and Director of Human Resources. In 1990, he was named Deputy CEO and then CEO from 1994 to 2002. He has been CEO of La Poste from 2002 to 2013 and has served as its Honorary President since October 2013. He has been also President of Entreprise et Personnel as well as Vice-President of Confrontations Europe and Chairman of and member of the Conseil Economique, Social et Environnemental from 1995 to 2015.

Jean-Paul Bailly is President of “Entreprises pour la cité”, member of the Board of Director of St. Joseph’s hospital and the Théâtre de la ville, Director and member of the Commitments Committee and the Governance and CSR Committee of Accor Hotels and Director and member of the Audit Committee and the Investment Committee of Edenred.

Jean-Paul Bailly is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and MIT. He is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor and a Commander of the French National Order of Merit.

Pascal Bazin was, from June 2014 until the transformation of the Company’s corporate structure to a structure with a management board and a supervisory board, a representative of the company PB Consulting on the board of directors of the Company.

Pascal Bazin was founder and Chairman of PB Consulting, a consulting firm specialized in professional and strategic coaching and director (administrateur) of Modacin France and Alcopa. Pascal Bazin was Managing Director (Directeur Général) of Avis Europe Plc from January 2008 to December 2011, where he successfully managed the company’s recovery and led the development of the group towards new markets such as China and towards new mobility solutions such as car-sharing. He left his position at the end of 2011, following the transfer of his activity to Avis Budget Group, Inc. He had joined Avis Europe in 2005 after leaving Redcats, the third largest direct selling group in the world, where he was Managing Director (Directeur Général) of the specialized brands division (division des marques spécialisées) and Vice-President of Development/Strategy. Among his previous positions, he was Managing Director (Directeur Général) of many divisions of the cosmetic group Yves Rocher in Southern Europe and North America. Pascal Bazin started his career in the management consulting firm Peat Marwick Mitchell.

Pascal Bazin graduated from France’s Ecole Polytechnique.

Kristin Neumann began her career in 2000 at Thomas Cook AG as a Specialist and later Head of the IT Department’s Planning and Coordination Unit, then Head of Sales Control in the German market (2003), Administrative and Financial Director for continental Europe (2006), Administrative and Financial Director for central Europe (2008), member of the Thomas Cook AG Board of Directors (2010), Administrative and Financial Director for the United Kingdom and continental Europe (2012-2014), in particular in charge of restructuring the English market.

In 2014, she joined LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG as Administrative and Financial Director and Chief Officer Human Resources.

Kristin Neumann holds a degree in micro-economics and business management from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Diplom-Kauffrau, 1997) and a doctorate in business administration from the same university (1999), where she also worked as a graduate-level lecturer and Scientific Director (1997-2000).

Patrick Sayer has been a member of the Supervisory Board since March 9, 2015. From 2006 until the Company became a limited liability corporation (société anonyme) with a management board and a supervisory board, he was a director of the Company. He was Chairman of the Management Board of Eurazeo from May 2002 to March 2018.

He was previously a managing partner of Lazard Frères et Cie in Paris and a managing director of Lazard Frères & Co. in New York. He is a former Chairman of the Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance (AFIC, now known as France Invest), a director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, member of the Club des Juristes and taught finance at the Université de Paris Dauphine. He is also a commercial court judge with the Commercial Court of Paris.

Patrick Sayer is member of the Board of Directors of Accor Hotels, member of the Board of Directors of I-Pulse, Chairman of CarryCo Capital 1, CarryCo Croissance and CarryCo Croissance 2 and member of the Board of Directors of Tech Data Corporation.

Mr. Sayer is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and of the Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Eric Schaefer was a Director of Europcar Groupe from January 2013 to June 2014, then Eurazeo representative on Europcar Groupe Board of Directors from October 2014 until the change in the Company’s corporate governance structure to a public limited company with a Management Board and a Supervisory Board .

Eric Schaefer is Managing Director of Eurazeo Capital and Eurazeo North America In. He is responsible for sourcing and for making investments, as well as monitoring the performance of the companies in the Eurazeo portfolio. Since his arrival at Eurazeo in 2004, he has specialized in the sectors of corporate services and consumer goods and helped in the structuring and development of Eutelsat, B&B Hotels, Europcar, Elis, Asmodée and CPK. Eric Schaefer was named among the Rising Stars in Private Equity in the 0 under 40 category in Dow Jones Private Equity News in 2015, before being part of the 2016 class of Young Leaders selected by the French American Foundation. Mr. Schaefer is a graduate of HEC Paris and a finance graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Philippe Audouin has been a member of the Supervisory Board since March 9, 2015. From 2006 until the Company became a limited liability corporation (société anonyme) with a management board and a supervisory board, he was a director of the Company.

He spent the first 10 years of his career creating and developing his own business. After selling that business, Mr. Audouin served as CFO and legal representative (“Prokurist”) of the first joint venture between France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom in Germany from 1992 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Audouin served as Financial, Human Resources and Administrative Director of France Telecom’s Multimedia division. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Pages Jaunes. From April 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Audouin worked for the Arnault Group as CFO of Europ@Web. He taught for 5 years as a lecturer then a senior lecturer in the 3rd year at HEC (“entrepreneurs” option). He joined Eurazeo in 2002 as Administrative and Financial Director and was appointed to its management board in March 2006. He is also a member of the AMF’s Issuers Committee and  of the Association Nationale des Dirigeants Finance-Gestion (National Association of Finance and Management Executives (DFCG).

Mr. Audouin is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales.

Petra Friedmann began her career in 1978 as researcher in Economy and Sociology at the Cologne Institut für Spzialforschung and at the Bremen University.

From 1985 to 1999 she work in the tourism sector, first she created a travel agency, then she joigned Marmara-TUI Group in France, as Marketing Director.

From 2002, Petra Friedmann took over as Managing Director of Opodo in France, launching and developing the brand.

In 2015, she became Vice-President of the Swiss NGO Humanium, dedicated to the defense of children’s rights.

Since 2012, she is independent director of Boursorama group.

Petra Friedmann is a graduate of Bielefeld University in sociology and holds a Doctorate in Political Science & Economy from Bremen University.

A graduate from the Ecole des Mines in Nancy, Virginie Fauvel began her career in 1997 at Cetelem as the head of risk scoring and then as Director of CRM, before becoming Director of world Internet strategy in 2004 and then Director of the e-business France unit in 2006. She next joined BNP Paribas’s retail bank in 2009, where she directed and developed the online bank before becoming Director of European online banks in 2012. In that capacity, in mid-2013 she launched HelloBank!, the first 100% mobile European bank. She joined Allianz France in July 2013 as a member of the Executive Committee in charge of Digital and Market Management. She has been a member of the Conseil National du Numérique (French Digital Council) from 2013 to 2016. Since January 15, 2018, she has been a member of the Management Board of Euler Hermes, in charge of the Americas region and Group transformation. She has been Member of the Board of Neopost since June 2016.

Virginie Fauvel is a Chevalier of the French National Order of Merit.

From 2007 to 2010, Amandine Ayrem started to work with « Investment Banking » teams of Deutsche Bank in Paris. She has been involved in various advisory missions in the field of mergers and acquisitions for European industrial players as well as for investment funds.

Amandine Ayrem joined Eurazeo’s investments team in 2010, she participated actively in the completion and monitoring of investments in Europcar, Foncia, CPK, Les Petits Chaperons Rouges and Iberchem. She is Principal of Eurazeo SE, member of the Supervisory Board of CPK and Director of Fragrance Spanish Topco SL.

Amandine Ayrem is a graduate from HEC Paris, Columbia Business School.

Sandy Miller has experience in the transportation and tourism industries and strong knowledge of the vehicle rental market. He started his career in 1979 at the vehicle rental company Budget Group, Inc. that he joined as North East Field Operation Manager, before becoming a franchisee of Budget Rent-a-Car from 1980 to 1987. Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Team Rental Group in 1987, he notably supervised the acquisitions of Cruise America, VPSI, Premier Car Rental and Budget Rent-a-Car; he then served as President, Chief executive Officer and Chairman of Budget Group from 1997 to 2003, where he supervised the acquisition of Ryder TRS as well as the acquisition of Budget Group by Cendant Corporation. From 2003 to 2012, he served as Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Franchise Services of North America, Inc., where he managed the acquisition of Advantage-Rent-a-Car, the merger with Rent a Wreck Capital and U-Save. He also served as member of the Board of Directors of the restaurant chain Stoonewood Holdings and of the State University of New York at Oswego Foundation and as President of the American Car Rental Association. 

Sandy Miller is currently Managing Partner of the private investment firm Basin Street Partners that he founded in 2001 and was from 2006 to 2017 Vice Chairman of the Board & Founding Director of the bank Gateway Financial Holdings of Florida, Inc. He is also a management consultant at Gerson Lehrman Group since 2003.

Sandy Miller holds a Bachelor of Science, Business from the State University of New York, Oswego, NY.