The Board

The Board of Directors is currently composed of the following members:

Patrick BENSABAT : Founder, Chairman and Managing Director Patrick Bensabat, 48 years old, graduated from Israel's Polytechnics Institute (1984) and has a Master of Sciences in Information Systems. He was a Consultant and a Project Manager at GSI Finance. He founded Business & Decision in 1992.

Christophe DUMOULIN : Deputy General Director and Executive Director Christophe Dumoulin, 48 years old, graduated from the University of Lyon and has a MBA from San Francisco University. He began his career at Metrologie. In 1992, he was appointed Managing Director of Pilot Software. He joined Business & Decision in 1996.

 

Ada SEKIRIN : Country Director - Benelux, Russia and Italy Ada Sékirin, Belgian, 48 years old, (Masters in IT and MBA from Brussels Open University) started out as a freelance banking IT consultant. In 1994, she was involved in the creation of Flux Consultancy and developed the Business Intelligence expertise of the company. After the acquisition of Flux Consultancy by Business & Decision (end of 2001) and the merger, in 2003, with SPSInfoquest's Belgian subsidiary, creating Business & Decision Benelux, Ada Sékirin was appointed Director of Business & Decision Benelux. She now also runs activities in Russia and Italy.

Ian HUCKLE : Country Director - UK, Spain and Ireland Ian Huckle (Hertfordshire University) worked as a chartered accountant for Ernst & Young before creating in 1997Infoquest Solutions Ltd., which was later merged with SPS Ltd. (United-Kingdom and Belgium) in 2000. SPSInfoquest was acquired by Business & Decision in 2002. Ian Huckle is the General Director of SPSInfoquest (United-Kingdom), which became Business & Decision Ltd. on January 2004. He now also supervises activities in Spain and Ireland.

 

Sylvain THAUVETTE : Country Director - North America Sylvain Thauvette, 39 years old, Canadian, was appointed CEO North America for Business & Decision in September 2005 and was chartered with establishing and expanding the business in that region. He is since 2007 a Member of the Board of Directors of Business & Decision and leads all operations including Sales, Consulting and Delivery of Services and Solutions for the Discrete Manufacturing and Distribution Industries. A 15 year veteran in the software and consulting business, Sylvain spent 5 years as the Managing Director of Flextronics Enterprise Solutions, a division of manufacturing giant Flextronics International. Prior to joining Flextronics he worked for companies like Atos Origin in numerous regions of the world in capacities ranging from Consultant to Global Project Manager to Principle. A graduate of HEC Montreal he also owned his own consulting company for a number of years.

 

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 AMF website (www.amf-France.org) in the Sophie database.

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) and on the AMF site (www.amf-france.org), in the Sophie database.

The mandatory financial reporting is also published as " Bulletin des annonces légales obligatoires " and, in a summarized form, in "la Tribune", the weekly economic and financial magazine.

Business & Decision meet financial analysts regularly, notably at half-yearly and annual results presentations ("réunions SFAF ").

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

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.

Aplitec SA, represented by Pierre LAOT
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.

 

 

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.