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JACQUES GAILLARD ALAIN BENTÉJAC BENOÎT CLOCHERET Joint President Joint President CEO

Jacques Gaillard is Joint A graduate of ’s École Benoît Clocheret joined Artelia President with Alain Bentéjac of Nationale d’Administration, Alain as the group’s Chief Executive Artelia, the engineering group Bentéjac began his career at the Officer on 1 January 2014. that was created in March 2010 Ministry of the Economy, where A graduate of France’s École through the merger of Coteba and he occupied various positions Polytechnique and École Sogreah. With a staff of 3,350 in the field of international Nationale des Ponts et and a turnover of €364m, Artelia economic relations. Chaussées engineering institutes, is one of the leading French He joined the private sector in and of the Institute of engineering companies. 1993, exercising responsibilities Political Studies, Benoît Clocheret It was in 1988 that Jacques in the construction and property had previously worked exclusively Gaillard joined Sogreah, sector within the group. for the Suez Environnement a consulting engineering He was appointed to head group. firm specialising in water, Coteba in July 1999. At the beginning of 2010, he was the environment and urban In 2003 and again in 2007, appointed Chairman and CEO of development. He occupied several he organised two LMBOs that Safege, Suez Environnement’s positions of responsibility before enabled Coteba to become engineering subsidiary. He had being appointed CEO and then independent. Thereafter the previously occupied numerous Chairman and CEO when the company developed and managerial positions at group and company was bought out by its diversified considerably, subsidiary level in France and the managers and employees at the in particular thanks to the United States. end of 1998, an operation that he acquisition of the ’s As CEO of Artelia, Benoît organised. engineering activities in 2006. Clocheret supervises all the At the start of his career, Jacques In March 2010, Coteba merged group’s operational and functional Gaillard was assistant director with Sogreah to form Artelia, activities. On his appointment, of a training and research centre France’s leading independent Joint Presidents Alain Bentéjac specialising in environmental engineering group, of which and Jacques Gaillard said: sciences at the École des Ponts Alain Bentéjac is Joint President. “Benoît Clocheret’s arrival et Chaussées, and then head Alain Bentéjac is also a former marks an important stage in of department at the Rhône- President of Syntec Ingénierie, the construction of Artelia. His Mediterranean-Corsica water the French federation of experience of the engineering authority. Jacques Gaillard engineering companies. He sector and his knowledge of is a graduate of France’s is currently a member of the international markets will help École Polytechnique and Executive Committee of FIDIC, to reinforce the group’s unity École Nationale des Ponts et the International Federation of and performance, and give Chaussées engineering institutes Consulting Engineers. it the means to continue its and holds a PhD from the development in France and University of Fort Collins (USA). internationally”.

March 2015