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Caroline Parot is Europcar Mobility Group’s CEO. She joined the Group in 2011 and was appointed CFO in March 2012. In 2016, she is appointed CEO of Europcar Group. The Group has been renamed Europcar Mobility Group in May 2018, to reflect the transformation that Caroline is leading: leveraging on its historical car rental business, the Group is now a "mobility service company", providing a wide range of mobility solutions and services, thus offering alternative attractive solutions to vehicle ownership.
Since 2017, Caroline Parot, is also board member of Ingenico and more recently of Entreprises pour la Cité.
Previously, she had occupied the positions of Group Management Controller (2009-2011) and member of the Executive Committee (2010-2011) within the Technicolor Group.
She holds a Masters in Finance from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and a DEA in Mathematical Economics from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Fabrizio Ruggiero joined the Group in May 2011 and was appointed Deputy CEO in March 2015. Before taking charge of all the Group's Business Units on the 1st of December 2018, he had various responsibilities within the Group: Managing Director of Italy, Group Head of Mobility Solutions and more recently, Deputy CEO Sales, Marketing, Customers and Low Cost.
From 2004 to 2011 he was General Manager of the Italian company Leasys, a company controlled by Fiat Group Automobiles Financial Services and Crédit Agricole and a leader in the car leasing business in Italy. Also at Leasys, he served as Director of Sales and Marketing from 2005 to 2007 and as Director of Operations from 2004 to 2005.
Prior to these experiences, Fabrizio Ruggiero worked for Bain & Company Italy, as manager from 2000 to 2004, and for Accenture as a consultant from 1997 to 2000.
He holds a Masters in business management from the MIP Politecnico di Milano (1999) and a management diploma from the Università degli Studi di Roma (1995).
Olivier Baldassari joined Europcar Mobility Group in January 2019.
Previously he was VP Operations and Logistics for the USA at Rexel, where he strongly contributed to the transformation of the activity.
He has a recognized experience in Operations and in Technology as enablers of transformation, implemented across different business environment and cultures.
Previously, he held different senior management positions at Rexel (in France and Southern Europe), Delphi Corporation and at Smurfit Kappa.
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.
Martine Gerow has joined Pepsico in the United States in 1989, before being appointed as interim CFO at BN in France in 1995 and then CFO of Pepsico France in 1998. She then joined Groupe Danone in 2002 as CFO of the Beverages division, before becoming Financial Controller for the entire Group in 2005.
In 2007, Martine Gerow joined Campofrio Food Group in Madrid as CFO, before returning to France in 2010 to become Deputy Managing Director in charge of finance at Solocal Group (PagesJaunes). In 2014, she joined Carlson Wagonlit Travel as Executive Vice President and CFO. In 2017, Martine moved to London to become Executive Vice President Finance of American Express Global Business Travel, a position she holds today.
Martine Gerow is Chairwoman of the Audit Committee of Keolis. Previously, she held the offices of Chairwoman of the Audit Committee of Bpifrance Participations and member of the Audit Committee of HSBC France.
Martine Gerow graduated from HEC Paris and holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
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.
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.
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.
Sophie Flak is currently Director of Eurazeo, since 2013, in charge of CSR and digital and information aspects. She was previously Executive Director of AccorHotels, between 2010 and 2013, where she was also a member of the Executive Committee in charge of the Group transformation and then member of the Group Executive Committee. Her previous experiences include a three-year stint at Unilever International as product manager between 1995 and 1998, and a twelve-year experience at Accenture, as a Partner in management consulting within the Strategy division, between 1998 and 2010.
Since 2018, Sophie Flak is also a member of the “Conseil National du Numérique” (French Digital Council).
Sophie Flak graduated from the EM Lyon and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg.
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.
Antonin Marcus began his career in 2009 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department at Goldman Sachs in London and Paris. In this role, he contributed to several acquisition, financing and restructuring transactions on behalf of major corporations and investment funds.
In 2011, he joined the Paris-based team of H.I.G. Capital, an investment firm, where he was notably involved in the European development of the franchise.
Since joining Eurazeo Capital in 2017, Antonin Marcus has been involved in the origination, execution and performance monitoring of investments in sectors such as business services and technology.
Antonin Marcus graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford).
Caroline Parot is Europcar Mobility Group’s CEO. She joined the Group in 2011 and was appointed CFO in March 2012. In 2016, she is appointed CEO of Europcar Group. The Group has been renamed Europcar Mobility Group in May 2018, to reflect the transformation that Caroline is leading: leveraging on its historical car rental business, the Group is now a "mobility service company", providing a wide range of mobility solutions and services, thus offering alternative attractive solutions to vehicle ownership.
Since 2017, Caroline Parot, is also board member of Ingenico and more recently of Entreprises pour la Cité.
Previously, she had occupied the positions of Group Management Controller (2009-2011) and member of the Executive Committee (2010-2011) within the Technicolor Group.
She holds a Masters in Finance from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris and a DEA in Mathematical Economics from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Fabrizio Ruggiero joined the Group in May 2011 and was appointed Deputy CEO in March 2015. Before taking charge of all the Group's Business Units on the 1st of December 2018, he had various responsibilities within the Group: Managing Director of Italy, Group Head of Mobility Solutions and more recently, Deputy CEO Sales, Marketing, Customers and Low Cost.
From 2004 to 2011 he was General Manager of the Italian company Leasys, a company controlled by Fiat Group Automobiles Financial Services and Crédit Agricole and a leader in the car leasing business in Italy. Also at Leasys, he served as Director of Sales and Marketing from 2005 to 2007 and as Director of Operations from 2004 to 2005.
Prior to these experiences, Fabrizio Ruggiero worked for Bain & Company Italy, as manager from 2000 to 2004, and for Accenture as a consultant from 1997 to 2000.
He holds a Masters in business management from the MIP Politecnico di Milano (1999) and a management diploma from the Università degli Studi di Roma (1995).
Olivier Baldassari joined Europcar Mobility Group in January 2019.
Previously he was VP Operations and Logistics for the USA at Rexel, where he strongly contributed to the transformation of the activity.
He has a recognized experience in Operations and in Technology as enablers of transformation, implemented across different business environment and cultures.
Previously, he held different senior management positions at Rexel (in France and Southern Europe), Delphi Corporation and at Smurfit Kappa.
Marcus Bernhardt joined the Group in 2013, as Group’s Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Executive Committee. He then took charge of e-commerce and marketing at Group Level, before being appointed Managing Director of the International Coverage Business Unit, looking after and developing further the Global Franchise Networkd as well as the international alliance partners of the Group.
He started his career in the hotel industry. He successively held the position of COO in the Radisson SAS Hotels & Resorts, Rezidor SAS Hospitality as well as the position of COO and CCO in the Steigenberger Hotels & Resorts group. In 2010 he was appointed Executive VP and Chief Services Officer (CSO), member of the Executive Board, at Gulf Air.
José Blanco is Group Chief Sales Officer, member of the Executive Committee, since July 2020: a role that he took on in the context of "CONNECT 2023", the transformation plan of the Group.
José Blanco was previously Managing Director of the Low-Cost BU, member of the Executive Committee, a position he assumed since June 2019. Prior to this, he was Sales and Marketing Director for Europcar Mobility Group UK and before that, he held the same position in Spain.
José Blanco has over 20 years of experience in leisure and tourism, managing sales & marketing areas in companies such as Portaventura Park and Resort, Grandvalira Ski and Pullmantur Cruises (Royal Caribbean Group).
Aurélia Cheval joined the Group in 2015 to manage the Initial Public Offering and develop the investor relations.
In 2017, she set up the Strategy Office to ensure on top of the definition of the Group Strategy its implementation through the Mergers & Acquisitions, as well as through a reinforced Project Management Office.
Since January 2019, she has served as Group Chief Strategy Officer, member of the Executive Committee.
Previously, she was Director of Investor Relations at Vivendi, and took part to the IPO and M&A program at SFR.
Xavier Corouge joined the Group in 2013, as Group Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, member of the Executive Committee. As such, he was in charge of Marketing, E-commerce, Direct sales and Customer relationship for all brands and markets.
He was then appointed Managing Director of the Urban Mobility Business Unit in May 2019.
In July 2020, Xavier took on the role of Group Chief Business and Customer Officer, in charge of the Service Lines of the Group, as part of the "CONNECT 2023" transformation plan of the Group.
The Service Lines - Proximity, Leisure and Professional - are responsible for the steering and the deployment of enhanced Europcar Mobility Group mobility solutions, assuring centralized definition and consistent implementation of the offer, everywhere the Group operates.
Xavier Corouge is also member of the Board of Directors at Wanderio ; a company where Europcar Mobility Group holds a minority stake.
Prior to this, Xavier Corouge held several senior positions in the travel and digital industry, from E-Commerce Director at Thomas Cook Group to Head of Marketing and CRM at OUI.Sncf and Vivendi Group.
José María Gonzalez has more than 20 years of experience within the Group, where he held different positions including Managing Director of Europcar Mobility Group Spain.
He joined the Group Executive Committee in December 2018, as Managing Director of the Cars BU. In that role, José-Maria Gonzales was in charge of the acceleration of the transformation of the historical business of the Group, relying on digitalization and lean structure programs.
In the context of the "CONNECT 2023" transformation plan of the Group, he took on new responsibilities in July 2020, as Managing Director Southern Europe and Australia / New Zealand.
Denis Langlois is member of Executive Committee since October 2017, as Group Human Resources Director.
Preivously, he has served as VP Human Resources at Oberthur Technologies (2013-2017), at Lagardère Active (2009-2013), at Technicolor (2002-2009), and at Philips (1998-2002).
Yvonne Leuschner joined the Group in 2017, as Managing Director Vans & Trucks Business Unit and member of the Executive Committee.
Previously, Yvonne Leuschner was Senior Director “Rent a Truck” at Sixt GmbH, from 2007 to 2017. She also served as Sales Operations Manager at Lidl in Ireland (2004-2007).
Luc Peligry joined the Groupe in January 2018, Group Chief Financial Officer, member of the Executive Committee.
Before joining the Group, he was General Manager, Finance & Operations at Pierre Fabre Laboratoires (2011-2017). Previously, he held the same position at Invivo NSA (2001 – 2010) and was formerly Chief Finance Officer in charge of synergies within the Total Group (1998 – 2000). He started his career at KPMG, Deloitte and Credit du Nord).
Franck Rohard joined the Group in June 2015, as Group Secretary General, member of the Executive Committee.
Prior to that, Franck Rohard held the position of Group General Counsel and Head of Legal for SFR Group. Franck also served as Head of Legal in various airline companies such as AOM Group, Air Liberté (Group) or TAT European airlines.
Damien Basselier joined the Group in 2019, as Group Chief Technology Officer, member of the Executive Committee. Early 2020, he took over the responsibilities of the Group’s Product teams, as Group Chief Product and Chief Technology Officer.
Damien Basselier was previously Chief Information Officer at Smartbox Group in Dublin, where he led the company's digital transformation.
An engineer by training, Damien Basselier has more than 20 years of experience in universes with a strong technological and digital component, whether for start-ups or large international groups such as Vivendi, Cegetel and Cap Gemini.
We are convinced that mobility should be inclusive, not excluding! Mobility can be a lever for social inclusion and accessing to mobility is key.
That's why Europcar Mobility Group develops offers, services and programs for facilitating mobility for all, aiming at giving individuals as well as groups of people easy access to this great new world of mobility.
We are particularly focused on:
We live an exciting age of mobility, where mobility new usages and needs create job opportunities and require new skills to be developed.
In this fast changing context, Europcar Mobility Group success is intimately bound to:
These are the 3 pillars on which we focus our employer brand efforts, implementing specific HR policies and programs for our 12 000 employees throughout the world.
At the same time, we also want to foster the emergence of new trades and new services that will create job opportunities for tomorrow within our Group as well as within the partnerships and alliances we will set up, thus acting in favor of economic and social progress.
Aware of the global environment issues caused by massive urbanization and demographics explosion, Europcar Mobility Group wants to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
This means that we seek to play an active role in the transition to a low carbon world.
In that combat:
We are proud of our values and dedicated to the enforcement, on a day-to-day basis, of our business ethics: we have 48 commitments and 12 objectives featured in our Ethics Code.
Of course, we want to build confidence with our customers by offering them transparent products and by improving their satisfaction.
Moreover, Europcar Mobility Group wants to promote business ethics all through its value chain with customers (BtoB, BtoC), suppliers, franchisees and employees.
This ambition translates into policies and awareness initiatives.
