Mr. Olivier Buquen is promoted to Chief Financial officer of the Group
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Mr. Sampiero Lanfranchi was named Director of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group
“Chargers continues to modernize its organization with the promotion of Olivier Buquen in the quality Group’s Chief Financial officer, in replacement of Mr. Rémy Husson, and the appointment of Sampiero Lanfranchi as head of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group. Chargers would like to thank Mr. Rémy Husson for his professionalism, commitment and expertise which he has given the Group over the past years in the service of a balance sheet ever more solid. The Group provides the organizational means appropriate to its strategy of “game change” in the industrial trades of a niche. ” declared Michaël Fribourg, Chairman and ceo.
Promotion of Mr. Olivier Buquen as Chief Financial officer of the Group
Mr. Olivier Buquen, who until then was Director of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group, is promoted to Chief Financial officer of the group Chargers. He succeeds Mr. Rémy Husson, who is leaving the Group.
Having joined Chargers in 2016, Mr. Olivier Buquen already has an in-depth knowledge of the Group, its teams and its settlements in the world. He has since his arrival been a part of the strategy of development of business of a niche of Loaders, together with the President Director-General, Michaël Fribourg.
Mr. Olivier Buquen will be responsible for modernising the finance function of the Group, in the service of all of its stakeholders. He will be assisted by Mr. Cédric Ratouis, Assistant to the Chief Financial officer of the Group, which retains its functions. Appointment of Mr. Sampiero Lanfranchi as head of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group
Mr. Sampiero Lanfranchi, who until then was admitted to the bars of New York and Paris, specialized in mergers and acquisitions, member of the law firm De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, succeeds Mr. Olivier Buquen.
He will be responsible for coordinating the implementation of acquisition projects, the monitoring of the integration of acquired businesses and new locations worldwide, in connection with all of the teams in the Group.
Composition of the Management Committee
The Executive Committee is composed as follows :
Mr. Michaël Fribourg, Chairman And Ceo,
Mr. Olivier Buquen, Group Chief Financial Officer,
Mrs. Joelle Fabre-Hoffmeister, Secretary-General Group,
Mr. Sampiero Lanfranchi, Director of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group,
Mr. Laurent Derolez, managing Director of Chargeurs Protective Films,
Mr. Bernard Vossart, managing Director of Chargeurs Fashion Technology,
Mr. Patrick Bonnefond, Director-General of Chargers Technical Substrates,
Mr. Federico Paullier, managing Director of Chargers Luxury Materials.
Biographies
Olivier BUQUEN, Chief Financial officer of the Group.
Member of the Executive Committee.
52 years old, graduated from ESSEC business school, Sciences Po Paris and Harvard Business School.
Olivier BUQUEN began his professional career in 1988 as head of communications for the Bolloré Group. In 1990, he joined the financial division of the Paribas Group. He joined the general secretariat of the group in 1996 and became in 1999, chief operating officer of BNP Paribas Lease Group Italia in Milan.
Joining the Plastic Omnium group as a member of the Group Executive Committee in 2002, he was successively Development director at Plastic Omnium Environment, director general of the Company Signature (the european leader in road signage, 230 million euros of turnover, 1 500 people), and then Development director of the Group.
Olivier BUQUEN was interministerial delegate for economic intelligence (2009-2013), and then controller-general, economic and financial (2013-2016).
He joined the Chargers in may 2016, acting director of International Development.
Sampiero Lanfranchi, Director of International Development and Acquisitions of the Group.
Member of the Executive Committee.
34 years old, a lawyer by training, a member of the bar of New York and formerly enrolled at the Paris bar, holds a DEA in international law from the University of Paris II, graduate of HEC, ESCP/EAP, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Sampiero LANFRANCHI began his career working for an american firm, and then in a private equity fund in London. In 2010, he joined the Corporate department and M&A law firm of paris De Pardieu Brocas Maffei AARPI, where he has worked on many transactions, particularly in the industrial sector.
He joined the Chargers in 2017, and will focus on the development of the Group’s international operations to support its strategic growth.
ABOUT CHARGERS
CHARGERS, industrial group and services global presence, operates as a leader on the segments of the temporary protection of surfaces, fabric covering, substrates and techniques of worsted wool. CHARGERS employs more than 1,500 employees in 34 countries, on 5 continents, serving a customer base that is diverse in more than 70 countries.
The turnover 2016 amounted to more than 500 million euros, of which more than 90 % outside France.
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