2025 Universal Registration Document

Director of EssilorLuxottica SA and member of both its Audit and Risk Committee and its Nomination and Compensation Committee (from 2018 to 2021)

Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Babbel Group AG (Germany) and Chair of its Audit Committee from 2020 to 2024

Annette Messemer holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bonn, a master’s degree in international economics from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris. She started her career in investment banking at JP Morgan in New York in 1994, then in Frankfurt and London. She left JP Morgan in 2006 as a senior banker to join Merrill Lynch as Managing Director, Investment Banking at its German subsidiary, where she also served on the Executive Committee. In 2010, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of WestLB by the German Ministry of Finance, before joining Commerzbank in 2013, where she was a member of the Group Executive Committee and Divisional Board Member for Corporate Clients until June 2018. Ms Messemer is currently a board member of several companies.

• President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Texas Central Partners (United States) 
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bounce Imaging, Inc. (United States) 
• Member of the Board of Directors of Counterpart International (United States) and Chair of its Finance Committee 
• Director of Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (Ercot) (United States)

A specialist in project management, finance and execution, Carlos F. Aguilar has over 30 years of experience in managing power, transport and other large industrial projects ranging from airports to multibillion-dollar power and petrochemicals facilities. An engineer with advanced degrees in economics (corporate/business strategy and finance), he combines a vast understanding of multi-party negotiations and complex financing structures with a keen sense of the on-the-ground realities of engineering, construction management and safety. Having gained significant experience at the executive and board level with companies ranging from some of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms to clean energy startups, Mr Aguilar has financed and managed projects in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, mainly relating to transport infrastructure (airports, high-speed rail, light rail, roads), power facilities (coal, gas and clean energy, including solar thermal plants and carbon sequestration) and water infrastructure. In addition to his professional roles, Mr Aguilar maintains a strong personal interest in sustainable development for the world’s poorest people, both professionally in development organisations and today through strategic board roles.

• Chief Executive Officer and Director of Latécoère 
• Director of Arkema

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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 SECAN, a subsidiary of Honeywell Aerospace. 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. Since July 2020, Ms Assouad has been Executive Vice-President, Avionics at Thales and a member of its Executive Committee.