NEOPOST: TWO NEW INDEPENDENT MEMBERS JOIN NEOPOST'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Two new independent members join Neopost's Board of Directors

 

Paris, July 13, 2016

Neopost, the number two global supplier of Mail Solutions and a major player in Digital Communication and Shipping Solutions, today announced two new appointments to its Board of Directors, Virginie Fauvel and Richard Troksa. According to the agenda, the appointments were approved by the Annual General Meeting on July 1, 2016.

Virginie Fauvel and Richard Troksa qualify as independent directors. They were appointed to replace Agnès Touraine and Jacques Clay, both of whom are retiring from the Board on the expiration of their terms of office at the close of the Annual General Meeting of July 1, 2016.

Denis Thiery, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Neopost, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Virginie Fauvel and Richard Troksa to Neopost's Board of Directors. I believe that both Virginie Fauvel's experience in online business and the digitization of services, and Richard Torksa's, who specializes in strategy and development in new technologies, will be extremely valuable to the Board as we continue to transform the Group. The Neopost Board of Directors consists of a majority of independent members, including one lead Director, and provides widely acknowledged and complementary expertise to the Group to support our balanced and tightly controlled governance structure."

Virginie Fauvel (41, French) holds an engineering degree from the École des Mines de Nancy. She started her career in Cetelem, where she had responsibility for risk management, before taking the management of the e-Business division and setting up and developing Cetelem's online platforms in Europe. In 2009, in BNP Paribas, Virginie Fauvel was appointed Director of online banking. In this role, she created and developed four online banks, including Hello bank!. She joined Allianz in 2013 as a member of the Executive Committee and took responsibility for the transformation of Allianz into a company based on digital technologies. She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Europcar Group. Finally, Virginie Fauvel was a member of the National Digital Council between 2013 and 2015.

Richard Troksa (53, American) is currently a business consultant with Gold Aspen Executive Consulting, a strategy and development consulting firm focusing on new technologies. An engineer, he holds an MSc in Engineering from the University of Colorado. Richard first joined IBM in 1984 where he took charge of software development before being appointed Business Line Manager in 2003. He held the position of Chairman and CEO of Exstream Software from 2004 to 2008, before going on to join Hewlett-Packard in the role of Vice President of Enterprise Software, a position he held until 2010. Richard Troksa specializes in new technologies and also has substantial financial and management experience. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and the Appointment and Remuneration Committee of DocuLynx Inc. and he is Vice Chairman of the Board and a member of the Appointments, Remuneration and Audit committees of 7 Summits Inc.

Following the appointment of these two new members, the composition of Neopost's Board of Directors is as follows:

  • Denis Thiery, director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Neopost Group
  • Vincent Mercier, lead independent director
  • Éric Courteille, independent director
  • Virginie Fauvel, independent director
  • Cornelius Geber, director
  • William Hoover Jr, independent director
  • Catherine Pourre, independent director
  • Isabelle Simon, independent director
  • Richard Troksa, independent director
  • Jean-Paul Villot, director

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The press release announcing second-quarter 2016 sales and the interim 2016 financial statements will be published on September 27, 2016 after the market close.

ABOUT NEOPOST
NEOPOST is the number two global provider of mailing solutions and a major player in the field of digital communications and shipping solutions. Its mission is to guide and support organizations in how they send and receive communications and goods, helping them better connect with their business environment through hardware, software and services.
Neopost supplies innovative user-friendly solutions for physical and digital communications management for large companies and SMEs, as well as shipping processes for supply-chain and e-commerce players.
With a strong local presence in 31 countries and over 6,000 employees, Neopost works closely with a network of partners in order to market its solutions in more than 90 countries. In 2015, Neopost reported sales of €1.2 billion.
Neopost is listed in Compartment A of Euronext Paris and belongs notably to the SBF 120 index.

For more information, please contact:

Gaële Le Men, Neopost Fabrice Baron, DDB Financial
Financial, External & Internal Communication Director Chairman
Tel: +33 (0)1 45 36 31 39 Tel: +33(0)1 53 32 61 27
Email: g.le-men@neopost.com Email: fabrice.baron@ddbfinancial.fr

Or visit our web site: www.neopost.com

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