Corporate governance

Management board / Supervisory board

 Management board

John Searle John Searle is President of the Company’s management board. He has been in charge of the Saft group’s operational activities since 2002. John Searle is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Saft S.A. He joined the Saft group in 1990, and held various sales and management functions in the United Kingdom and later in France. In 1999, John Searle was appointed head of the SBG division. Before joining the group, he was Director of Operations at Manchester Steel and Marketing Director at Saunders Valve in the United Kingdom. John Searle holds an engineering degree from Cambridge University.

Bruno Dathis Bruno Dathis joined the Saft group as Chief Financial Officer on March 2008. He is a graduate of the “Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris” and holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Paris. He is a Chartered Accountant. He started his career in 1985 as a financial auditor before being made an audit partner with Ernst & Young. In 1999, Bruno was appointed chief financial officer of Balmain and was a Member of the Board of Directors. He joined Allibert Buckhorn-Myers Industries Incorporated (NYSE listed) in 2004 as chief financial officer for its European division

Xavier Delacroix Xavier Delacroix has been General Manager of the IBG division since January 2007. He is an aeronautical engineer and he began his career at the “Direction Générale de l’Armement”, a department of the French Defence Ministry, before joining Saft in 1992, where he worked in the Space and Defence Division in Poitiers. He became general manager of the Poitiers site in Saft’s Specialty Battery Group at the beginning of 2006.

Thomas Alcide Thomas Alcide has been Director and General Manager of the SBG division since 2004. Previously, he was the Director and General Manager of the group’s lithium battery division from 2002 to 2004 and was the Director and General Manager of the Valdese Plant from 2000 to 2002. Previously, he held various managerial positions within the Group in the United States. Before joining Saft in 1988, Thomas Alcide was an engineer with the Duracell group. He holds an engineering degree from California Coast University and an electronics technology degree from the Arizona Institute of Technology

Jill Ledger Jill Ledger is Saft’s Director of Communication and Investor Relations, after having managed the group’s communications since 1999 and its internal communications since 1998. Before joining the group, Jill Ledger held various positions in the United Kingdom’s Department of Health and Social Security from 1983 to 1991. From 1991 to 1998, she was a corporate communications consultant at RSCG Consulting. She is the Chairperson of Association Recharge, a worldwide organisation of rechargeable battery manufacturers. A former foreign student at the “Ecole Nationale d’Administration”, she also holds a degree in languages from Leeds University and a master’s degree in marketing from Manchester University.

 Supervisory board

A - Yann Duchesne - Chairman
B - Jean-Marc Daillance - Vice-Chairman
C - Bruno Angles
D - Ghislain Lescuyer
E - Charlotte Garnier-Peugeot