Helman le Pas de Sécheval

Director of Bouygues
Managing Director of Groupama Centre-Atlantique

Date of birth: 21/01/1966

Education and career

Helman le Pas de Sécheval, 42, is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure with a PhD in Physical Sciences and an engineering degree from École des Mines. He began his career in 1991 as a project manager in the financial engineering department of Banexi.

From 1993 to 1997, he was deputy inspector-general of the underground quarries of Paris.

In July 1997, he was appointed deputy to the head of the Department of Financial Operations and Information of the COB (the French securities regulator), becoming head of this department in 1998.

From November 2001 to December 2009, Helman le Pas de Sécheval was Chief Financial Officer of Groupama Group, with responsibility for the group’s financing, investing, reinsurance and accounting divisions and oversight of the group’s financial subsidiaries: Groupama Banque, Banque Finama (which merged with Groupama Banque on 1 October 2009), Groupama Asset Management, Groupama Immobilier, Groupama Private Equity and GIE Groupama Systèmes d’Information. He was appointed Managing Director of Groupama Centre-Atlantique on 1 January 2010.

Helman le Pas de Sécheval is a member of the Bouygues Board of Directors.

Helman le Pas de Sécheval is Chairman of the Accounts Committee at Bouygues.

• Date of first appointment: Director of Bouygues since 24 April 2008
• Expiry date of current term of office: 2011
• Number of shares in the company: 620 (at 31/12/09)

Other positions and functions outside the Group

Vice-Chairman and Director of Groupama Banque. Standing representative of Groupama SA and Director of Silic and GIE Groupama Systèmes d’Information. Standing representative of Groupama SA and co-manager of SCA d’Agassac and SCI d’Agassac. Director of Groupama Assicurazioni S.p.a..

(Updated: March 2010)

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