2024 Universal Registration Document

General and financial elements

3.2.1 Executive Management

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024 Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France

Within the VINCI Group

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France
  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI.
  • Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VINCI Deutschland GmbH.
  • Permanent representative of VINCI on the Boards of Directors of VINCI Energies and the endowment fund La Fabrique de la Cité.
  • Permanent representative of Snel on the Board of Directors of ASF and of VINCI Autoroutes on the Board of Directors of Cofiroute.
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité
  • Director of Kansai Airports (Japan).
  • Director of Cobra Servicios Comunicaciones y Energía S.L.U. (Spain)

Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024

Chairman of VINCI Concessions SAS.
Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France
Lead Director of Air Liquide and Chair of both its Remuneration Committee and its Appointments and Governance Committee

Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024

Permanent representative of VINCI on the Board of Directors of Aéroports de Paris and member of its Compensation, Appointments and Governance Committee
Outside the VINCI Group in unlisted companies or other structures

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France
  • Member of the Institut de l’Entreprise
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the non-profit organisation Aurore
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institut Pierre Lamoure endowment fund

Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024

Vice-Chairman of the non-profit organisation Aurore
Background

Xavier Huillard

  • Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI
  • Age : 70 (*)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 
  • 336,616
  • First appointment: 2026
  • Term of office ends: AGM 2026 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: VINCI 1973, boulevard de La Défense 92000 Nanterre France

Xavier Huillard is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He has spent most of his working life in the construction industry in France and abroad. Mr Huillard joined Sogea in December 1996 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of international activities and specific projects, and then became its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He was appointed Deputy General Manager of VINCI in March 1998 and was Chairman of VINCI Construction from 2000 to 2002. He was appointed Co-Chief Operating Officer of VINCI and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI Energies from 2002 to 2004, then Chairman of VINCI Energies from 2004 to 2005. Mr Huillard became Director and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI in 2006 and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of VINCI on 6 May 2010. He served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Institut de l’Entreprise from January 2011 until January 2017, and as Chairman of VINCI Concessions from 2016 to 2024.

3.2.2 Lead Director

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024 Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France

Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France

None.

Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024
  • Chief Executive Officer and Director of Latécoère
  • Director of Arkema

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France
Outside the VINCI Group in unlisted companies or other structures

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France
  • Member of the Board of Directors of Enac (École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of Gifas (Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales)
  • Chairman and Director of various companies within Thales’s Avionics division
  • Director of Meca Dev, the holding company for Mecachrome, an aviation subcontractor
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2024

None.

Background

Yannick Assouad (*)

  • Executive Vice-President, Avionics, Thales
  • Lead Director of the Board of Directors, VINCI
  • Chair of the Appointments and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Audit Committee
  • Age: 65 (**)
  • Nationality: French
  • Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000
  • First appointment: 2013 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Term of office ends: 2025 Shareholders’ General Meeting
  • Business address: Thales 75-77 avenue Marcel Dassault 33700 Mérignac France

Yannick Assouad is a graduate of the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon and the Illinois Institute of Technology. She joined Thomson CSF in 1986, where she was head of the thermal and mechanical analysis group until 1998. From 1998 to 2003, Ms Assouad served first as Technical Director and then as Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell Aerospace, before being appointed Chairman of Honeywell SECAN. In 2003, she joined Zodiac Aerospace, initially as Chief Executive Officer of Intertechnique Services, a post she held until 2008. Appointed to Zodiac Aerospace’s Executive Committee that same year, Ms Assouad was selected to create the group’s Services business segment, which she headed until 2010, when she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of its Aircraft Systems segment. In May 2015, she became the first Chief Executive Officer of Zodiac Cabin, a newly created segment of Zodiac Aerospace. In November 2015, she was named to the Executive Board of Zodiac Aerospace. From November 2016 to March 2020, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Latécoère. In July 2020, Thales appointed her as Executive Vice-President, Avionics.