Sanofi’s Board of Directors proposes the appointment of Christian Brandts and Barbara Lavernos as Board Members
Sanofi’s Board of Directors proposes the appointment of Christian Brandts and Barbara Lavernos as Board Members
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Paris, France – March 3, 2021 – At its meeting on March 3, 2021, Sanofi’s Board of Directors has decided to propose, on the occasion of its next General Shareholder Meeting to be
held on April 30, 2021, the appointment of two new Directors, Christian Brandts and Barbara Lavernos, as well as the ratification of appointment by cooptation of Gilles Schnepp and the renewal of
the mandates of Fabienne Lecorvaisier and Melanie Lee. Bernard Charlès, whose term of office will expire at the end of the next General Shareholder Meeting, did not wish to stand for re-election in
order to avoid conflicts of interest that could arise from the development of the partnership between Sanofi and Dassault SYSTEMES, which he manages. will not be renewed upon his own request.
Moreover, Laurent Attal, after serving on the Board of Directors for 9 years, has declared his intention to retire and as a result to resign from his mandate as a Board Member before that General
Meeting.
Christian Brandts is currently Director at the University Cancer Center Frankfurt. In addition to his duties, Christian Brandts is pursuing his research activities focused mainly
on translational cancer research and personalized oncology. He is part of several national and international networks of oncology experts and is a member of the Board of the Organisation of
European Cancer Institutes (OECI).
Christian Brandts is a graduate from the Medical School of the Free University of Berlin, and then specialized in Internal Medicine and Hematology / Oncology at the Charité University Hospital in
Berlin and the University Hospital in Münster.
Barbara Lavernos took over in February 2021 as President Research, Innovation and Technologies of the L'Oréal Group, having spent her entire career at l'Oréal, which she joined in
1991. In 2004, she was appointed Global Chief Procurement Officer for all global purchases at L'Oréal, and in 2012, General Manager for Travel Retail department. In 2014, she was appointed Chief
Operating Officer and member of the Group’s Executive Committee, and she has led from the end of 2018 all the IT teams with the group’s technological transformation as her mission.