The Board
The Board of Directors is currently composed of the following members:
 | Patrick BENSABAT : Founder, Chairman and Managing Director
Patrick Bensabat is a graduate from the Israeli Polytechnic Institute (1984) and holds an MSc in Information systems (1986). He started out as consultant, and then project leader, for GSI Finance, before creating Business & Decision in 1992. |
 | Christophe Dumoulin : Vice-chairman and Deputy Managing Director
A Lyon I University graduate, Christophe Dumoulin also holds an MBA from the University of San Francisco (1990). He starts his career at Métrologie (in 1984), and then becomes Managing Director of Pilot Software (EIS software vendor) in 1992. He joins Business & Decision in 1996. |
 | Ada Sekirin : Regional Director for Benelux, Russia, Italy, Poland
Ada Sékirin, (has a Masters in IT and an MBA from the Free University of Brussels (ULB)) started her career as freelance IT consultant in the banking sector. In 1994, she contributed to the creation of Flux Consultancy. After the acquisition of Flux Consultancy by Business & Decision (end of 2001) and its merger, in 2003, with SPSInfoquest's Belgian subsidiary, creating thereby Business & Decision Benelux, Ada Sékirin was appointed Director of Business & Decision Benelux. |
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Ian Huckle : Regional Director for Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Morocco, Tunisia
Ian Huckle (University of Hertfordshire) started out as Statutory Auditor at Ernst & Young before creating Infoquest Solutions Ltd. In 1997. Merged with SPS Ltd. (Great Britain and Belgium) in 2000, SPSInfoquest was acquired by Business & Decision in 2002. Ian Huckle is Managing Director of SPSInfoquest (Great Britain), which later became Business & Decision Ltd. on 1 January 2004. |
 | Sylvain Thauvette : Regional Director for America/India
Sylvain Thauvette was appointed Regional Director for North America by the Group in September 2005. An HEC Montreal business school graduate, with 15 years of experience in the software and consulting field, he has, namely, headed Flextronics Enterprise Solutions, a Flextronics International subsidiary. He has previously worked for Atos Origin in several subsidiaries across the world, evolving from a consultant position to project leader, and then Manager. |
 | Gad Benchimol : Vice-president
Certified public accountant and holder of a Master Miage (Masters in IT for business management), he started his career as consultant for GSI, then for the Galeries Lafayette Group. He joins Business & Decision in 1998. In 2001, he is responsible for the sectors' biggest clients, including BNP Paribas. Since 2007, he is the BI/EPM Director. |
 | Vincent Rivière : Vice-president An INSA Lyon graduate, he started out as consultant for Cap Sesa Tertiaire. He joins Carrefour France's financial management in 1997 before joining Business & Decision in 2000, first to manage a portfolio of clients and then to manage the Nantes and Niort agencies. Since 2008, he is the Director of regional operations. |
Publications for Shareholders
Business & Decision subscribes to the authority of the Euronext Paris market and follows their recommendations for financial reporting.
Business & Decision publishes an annual report approved by l'Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), available on request from Business & Decision's Investor Relations, in pdf format (Acrobat) on its corporate website (www.businessdecision.com) and on the Euronext website.
Business & Decision also publish press releases on their financial results in accordance with the financial calender or on any other significant developments of financial nature. These press releases are posted on the company's internet sites (www.businessdecision.com).
The mandatory financial reporting is also published as " Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires ".
Business & Decision meet financial analysts regularly, notably at half-yearly and annual results presentations ("réunions SFAF "). Related documents are available on the Group's corporate website.
Other financial information (financial calendar, Group structure, financial indicators, Stock Market indicators, financial information) is also available on the Group's corporate website, under the "Investors" tab.
Statutory auditors
Aplitec SA, represented by Stéphane Lambert
Appointment : appointed to office at the Shareholders' Annual General Meeting held on 30 March 2000. The appointment was renewed at the Annual General Meeting convened to approve the accounts for the financial year ending 30 June 2005 and will expire at the Annual General Meeting to approve the accounts for the year ending 31 December 2010.
COPERNIC SARL, represented by Philippe SIXDENIER
Appointment: appointed to office at the Shareholders' Annual General Meeting held on 22 June 2009. The appointment will expire at the close of the Annual General Meeting called to approve the accounts for the financial year ending 31 December 2014.
Change of Financial Year End
At the Annual General Meeting held on 16 December 2004, the shareholders unanimously approved to change the date of the financial year end to 31 December, to coincide with the calender year.
In the 2005 financial year Business & Decision adopted and complied with the IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), endorsed by the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), and the requirements of public regulations issued by the IFRIC (International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee), approved by the European Union on 31 December 2005.
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