Governance

After serving as Chief Executive Officer since 2002, Robert Peugeot is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Peugeot Invest.

After studying at École Centrale Paris and INSEAD, Mr. Robert Peugeot held various senior positions within the PSA Group and was a member of the Group Executive Committee from 1998 to 2007, overseeing innovation and quality functions. He represented Peugeot Invest on the Supervisory Board of Peugeot SA until the merger of Peugeot SA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Since then, within Stellantis—the new entity resulting from the merger—he has served as Vice Chairman and Director.

He served on the High Committee on Corporate Governance (HCGE) from 2018 to 2024, for two terms.

An aerospace engineer by training, Sophie Banzet-Bérets is an ESTACA graduate and holds a master’s degree in engineering and management from HEC/Supaero. After gaining some initial experience in the automotive and aerospace sectors, she began her career with Airbus in Toulouse working on the A350 programme. She then held various A320-related industrial strategy and operational responsibilities. She is currently in charge of all ground testing on the final assembly lines in Hamburg. In 2023, she completed the IFA’s Certificate in Business Administration, which includes all aspects of CSR.

Xavier Barbaro is a graduate of École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began his career in 2001 at Louis Dreyfus Communication, before joining Louis Dreyfus Commodities in Geneva as assistant to the CEO, where he was in charge of the business plan. He then led several projects in Asia. He joined Direct Énergie in 2007 as Development Director and created Neoen in 2008. Since then, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, he has been leading the development of this company, which has become the leading independent French producer of exclusively renewable energies, located on three continents and listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since 2018.

Christine Dubus is a graduate of IEP Paris and EM Lyon and also holds degrees in chartered accounting and statutory auditing. After almost 30 years at Mazars in consulting and auditing, she has worked since 2018 at Crédit Mutuel-CIC Equity, where she is in charge of strategic intelligence and foresight issues with the Executive Board. At the same time, she holds several positions as a Director, both for Crédit Mutuel-CIC Equity and as an Independent Director (Mobivia, IOM Beam Applications and PKF Arsilon). Christine Dubus has also been a member of the French Institute of Directors (Institut Français des Administrateurs – IFA) since 2019, where she participates in numerous activities as a member of the Audit Committee Chairpersons Commission, the ESG Commission and the working group on non-financial information. She has also been a member of the French Association for Risk and Insurance Management (Association pour le Management des Risques et des Assurances de l’Entreprise – AMRAE) since 2023.

Béatrice Dumurgier is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and Corps des Ponts et Chaussées schools and holds a Master of Science degree from MIT. She started her career as a consultant for McKinsey in France and in the US. In 2000, she joined the French Ministry of Economy and Finance as Vice-Chairwoman within the Paris Club, and then the Agence des Participations de l’Etat (French Government Shareholding Agency). In 2004, she joined Groupe BNP Paribas, successively holding the posts of M&A and Strategy Director at Cetelem, Secretary of the Group’s Executive Committee, Group Director in Retail Banking, Head of Operations for BNP Paribas Retail Banking, then Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas Personal Investors – BNP Paribas’ online brokerage subsidiary. In 2019, Béatrice Dumurgier joined BlaBlaCar as Chief Operating Officer, served as CEO of BlaBlaBus and a member of the Executive Committee, a position she held until early 2021, when she joined BlackFin Capital Partners as Senior Advisor. Since September 2022, she has been the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Believe SA.

An HEC graduate, Luce Gendry was Chief Financial Officer of the Générale Occidentale group, then of Bolloré, before joining Rothschild in 1993. As managing partner of the bank until 2011, she specialised in M&A consulting and participated in numerous financial transactions both in France and abroad.

Michel Giannuzzi has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Verallia since May 2022, where he previously served as Chairman and CEO for five years. By successfully executing a strategy of value creation and sustainable development, he led Verallia to an IPO on the Euronext Paris in October 2019. From 2007 to 2017, he had served as Chairman of the Executive Board of Tarkett, a world leader in innovative solutions for floor coverings and sports surfaces. During his term of office, he pursued a strategy of profitable and enduring growth that paved the way for Tarkett’s IPO on the Euronext Paris in November 2013. Prior to that, Michel Giannuzzi held several executive management positions with Valeo and Michelin in France, Japan and the United Kingdom. He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and Harvard Business School.

Nicolas Huet has been Chief Executive Officer of Établissements Peugeot Frères since 9 October 2023. Nicolas Huet began his career at Moquet Borde & Associés in 1994 as a lawyer, before service as Legal Director of the Genoyer Group between 2000 and 2002. He was subsequently an associate and then a partner at White & Case LLP. In 2011, Nicolas Huet joined Eurazeo as Legal Director and Secretary of the Executive Board. He was then Secretary General and member of the Executive Board until 2023. He holds a DEA in International Law from University Paris II Panthéon Assas, and a certificate of professional competency as a lawyer.

Anne Lange is a graduate of IEP Paris (Institute of Political Studies) and ENA (elite training school for senior civil servants). She began her career working for the French Prime Minister’s office where she had responsibility for public broadcasting affairs. She subsequently joined Thomson, the Forum of Internet Rights, then the Cisco group, before jointly founding and serving as CEO of Mentis. After selling that company, Anne Lange embarked on a new entrepreneurial project which revolutionised the residential sector. As an active Business Angel seasoned in detecting innovation, she acts as Senior Advisor for start-ups, large technology groups, strategy consulting firms and more traditional companies looking to find their own way along the transformation path.

Dominique Netter spent most of her career with Edmond de Rothschild France. After serving as Chief Executive Officer, then Chairwoman of Rothschild Asset Management’s Executive Board between 2001 and 2007, she became Chief Investment Officer of the private banking unit until October 2015. Previously, she had held executive responsibilities at HSBC CCF Securities (from 1995 to 2001) and investment research firm Détroyat Associés (from 1991 to 1995).

Armand Peugeot is an ESSEC business school graduate. He has worked in advisory services and finance in Paris and in business outsourcing services in Singapore. He spent several years with Clipperton Finance, an international environment in which he supported fast-expanding tech companies with fundraising and M&A transactions. In 2022, Armand Peugeot moved to Alma, a French scale-up specialised in enabling brands to offer their customers buy-now, pay-later solutions both online and instore. He was hired as Product Partnerships Manager to develop partnerships and integrations with leading players in fintech and retailtech ecosystems.

Édouard Peugeot, a graduate of the University Paris-Dauphine, began his career in London at the investment bank, J.P. Morgan, before joining, in 2011, TowerBrook Capital Partners, a private equity firm with more than $21.6 billion in assets under management. He is currently based in Paris and holds the position of Managing Director, in charge of coverage of the French market. Over the past thirteen years, Édouard Peugeot has led numerous investments in a variety of sectors including services, distribution, industry, media and healthcare. For more than eight years, he has been closely involved in Peugeot Invest’s development, serving on the Board of Directors of Peugeot Invest UK Ltd. since 2016 and on the Board of Directors and Investments and Shareholdings Committee of Peugeot Invest since 2020.

Rodolphe Peugeot is a graduate of the INSEAD’s MBA programme and the ESCE International Business School. He began his career in the Treasury department of the French Ministry of Finance as economic attaché at the French embassy in Angola. In 2017, he joined the OCEA Group, Europe’s leading aluminium shipbuilder, as head of international partnerships, before taking charge of the group’s international development, a role he held until December 2022. Rodolphe Peugeot has led and participated in projects to acquire and create new subsidiaries deploying the group’s industrial and commercial capabilities across four continents. He is now the Business Development Executive for the Infosys Group.

Pascaline Peugeot-de Dreuzy holds an EMBA from HEC, as well as various ICCF-HEC business finance modules and a Certificate in Business Administration from Sciences Po-IFA. She has held management positions in a wide variety of sectors with major people-related challenges, enabling her to apply her experience and establish synergies between very different fields. Until 2021, she served as the Founding Chairwoman of P2D Technology, a company developing an innovative solution combining human and digital technology for the remote management of patients and the prevention of certain pathologies; she invests in online healthcare and AI start-ups and supports their development. Throughout her career, as Director in one of the family holding companies controlling the PSA group, she has taken a keen interest in corporate governance within the IFA, where she is a member of various expert groups (ESG, integrated reporting, risk appetite, family-owned businesses). In 2024, she obtained the certificate entitled “Governance, Climate and Sustainable Transformation,” from Dauphine-PSL University. As an Hôpitaux de Paris doctor, she pursued innovative, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge projects at the Necker-Enfants malades hospital group from 1986 to 2011. She brings to Peugeot Invest the benefit of her insights in health and new technologies, her corporate governance expertise and a wealth of experience in innovation, ESG and risk management. Pascaline Peugeot-de-Dreuzy is the Deputy Chairwoman of the Charles Gide-Protestants group for a responsible economy and helped draft the IFA’s guide entitled “Durabilité : les nouveaux engagements du conseil” (Sustainability: New commitments of the Board). She is a frigate captain and a member of the French Navy Citizen Reserve.

Camille Roncoroni holds a degree from Essec. In 2015, she joined the strategic consultancy firm Kea & Partners. She is currently a manager and provides strategic advice to her clients, including vision, business planning, new growth and innovation models, and performance reviews. She is particularly exposed to CSR issues in her role at Kea & Partners, which has become a “missiondriven company,” and belongs to the B-Corp community. In 2023, she completed the IFA’s Certificate in Business Administration.