(CercleFinance.com) – Orpea shareholders approved on Friday the appointment of a new board of directors following the arrival in the capital of Caisse des Dépôts, CNP, MAIF and MACSF.
The board is now made up of 13 directors and two observers, including seven non-independent directors, including one member representing the CDC, one from CNP Assurances, one from MAIF and the other from MACSF Epargne Retraite.
It also includes three independent directors, namely Mireille Faugère Méka Brunel and Guillaume Pepy, who will be the president of the body.
The general director, namely Laurent Guillot, and two administrators representing employees, Sophie Kalaidjian and May Antoun, will complete it.
Laurent Guillot, the CEO, welcomed a ‘major step’ in the recovery of the retirement home operator.
‘With our Refoundation plan, we have driven the transformation of Orpea,’ he underlined. ‘We succeeded in the financial rescue of the company and beyond that, the group has profoundly changed in one year.’
‘We are able to enter this new phase with confidence and ambition to become a company with a mission, serving the common interest,’ he added.