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Key people at Fortis, BNP Paribas, the CBFA and the National Bank of Belgium

KEY PEOPLE at FORTIS:
Count Maurice Lippens (chairman) (1943, Belgian nationality)

Fortis Director since 1981; term of office runs until 2012.
Director GBL (Group Bruxelles Lambert)

Baron Philippe Bodson (1944, Belgian nationality)

Fortis Director since 2004; term of office runs until 2010.
Director Cobepa/Cobehold

Alain Deschênes (1958 Canadian)

Member of Fortis’s Group Executive Committee since January 2008.
Prior to joining Fortis, he worked for Group BNP Paribas as Deputy CIO in charge of IT Operations and Global Infrastructure.

KEY PEOPLE at BNP PARIBAS:
Michel Pébereau

Principal function : Chairman of the BNP Paribas Board of Directors
Director : Pargesa Holding SA, Suisse

Jean-Louis Beffa

Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas
Director : Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Belgique

Baudouin Prot

Principal function: Director and Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas
Director : Erbé SA, Belgique et Pargesa, Holding SA, Suisse

Georges Chodron de Courcel

Principal function: Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas
Director : Erbe SA, Belgique

KEY PEOPLE at the BANKING, FINANCE AND INSURANCE COMMISSION of BELGIUM and at the NATIONAL BANK of BELGIUM:

Mr. Rudi Bonte is member of the Management Committee of the CBFA and member of the Bureau of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors.

Mr. Guillaume Pierre Wunsch is director at the staff of the Minister of Finances, member of the Supervisory Board of the CBFA, and regent of the National Bank of Belgium.

Mr. Gérald Frère is regent, chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Budget Committee of the National Bank of Belgium.
Gérald Frère - more details

Mandates at the National Bank of Belgium, boulevard de Berlaimont 14, 1000 BRUSSELS:

  • Member of the Financial Services Authority Supervisory Board since 23 February 1998
  • Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
  • Member of the Budget Committee

Other current mandates or functions: see PDF.

Baron Albert Frère and Mr Paul Desmarais Sr.
both control either directly or indirectly BNP Paribas, Copeba/Copehold, ERBE, Pargesa, and GBL.
through their holding compagnies Frère-Bourgeois and Power Corporation du Canada.
This alliance is governed by an agreement binding the partners until 2014

Structure: Frère-Bourgeois, BNP Paribas, ERBE, Pargesa, GBL.

 
30 June 2004
NPM/CNP is the listed entity of the Group commonly known as the “Groupe de Charleroi”. Controlled by Baron FRÈRE and his family, it consists of three levels:

FRÈRE-BOURGEOIS, the parent company, whose capital is owned by the FRÈRE family;

Partnership with leading Group: ERBE with BNP PARIBAS;

NPM/CNP, the interface with major institutional investors and the market.

 
 

Apart from its direct investment activities, the NPM/CNP Group also pursues an investment activity through PARJOINTCO/PARGESA/GBL and the companies within their Group.
PARJOINTCO, set up in 1990, was used by the Group to unite its participation in PARGESA with that of POWER CORPORATION DU CANADA, a Group controlled by Mr Paul DESMARAIS Sr. and his family.

This alliance is governed by an agreement binding the partners until 2014.
This covers PARGESA, its subsidiaries and its strategic interests.

 

Source: Fortis, BNP Paribas, Copeba, Reuters

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