Board of directors
Orolia’s Board of Directors is made up of five members. The board meets regularly and is chaired by Jean-Yves Courtois.
The Board selects the projects deemed to be most in line with the main focus of the Orolia group. Therefore, it has a key role in the group’s strategic management and in corporate governance. The Board approves the latest statutory accounts and budgets, targets partnerships and acquisitions, and guides subsidiary projects.
Membership of the Board of Directors :
| |
|
|
Jean-Yves COURTOIS
Previously Chairman and CEO of Temex. In 2001 was appointed business unit manager at Thales Microsonics later becoming CEO and completing the sale of the unit to Temex in 2002. Earlier positions were as head of strategy and business development at Thales components division and head of Thomson CSF’s (later Thales’) Laser Optronics department. Until 1998, he was chief scientific counsellor at the French department of defense following academic work in quantum physics.
|
 |
Ron BUCKLY
Since April 2007, Mr. Buckly has served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel of Ixia, a global provider of IP performance test systems. Mr. Buckly served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and General Counsel of Tekelec from January 2004 until his resignation from that office in December 2006 due to the Company's relocation from California to North Carolina. Mr. Buckly also serves on the Board of Directors of Tekelec,, a global provider of applications for telecommunications networks, and acts as an advisor to several privately held technology companies..
|
 |
Henri MAGNAN
He began his career as Engineer in aeronautics systems at CSF, then in the field of underwater acoustic.
He became technical and industrial Director of underwater activities at TH-CSF. The activity develops considerably and absorbs Alcatel teams in 1986.
He is named Deputy Managing Director, then, in 1990, he’d become Managing Director of the company. In 1992, he is CEO of Thomson Electronic Tubes, another subsidiary of TH-CSF, and becomes, in 1999 Deputy Managing Director of Thales in charge of the Telecommunications components branch.
|
| |
|
| |
|
 |
Nicolas VAILLANT
He joined BNPP PE at the beginning of 2006 to reinforce the Innovation teamto dedicated to Innovative Growth Capital. Prior to this, he was Associate then Investments Manager at SGAM Private Equity within the high-technology Venture Capital team, where he led investments in more than a dozen companies including Parrot (IPO on NYSE Euronext : PARRO). He was also on the board of Ornis (Trade sale to Risc Group / NYSE Euronext : RSC) and involved in several Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPE) on NYSE Euronext as well as on Nasdaq.
|
|
|
 |
Erik VAN DER KAAY
Erik is a Board member of RF Micro Devices Inc. (Nasdaq GS :RFMD) and Ball Corporation (NYSE BLL), headquartered in Broomfield, CO. and parent company of Ball Aerospace and technologies Corp., since 2004; Erik van der Kaay is the previous CEO of Datum, the American leader in the field of atomic clocks and synchronization systems purchased in 2002 by Symmetricom, whose Erik chaired the board of directors until 2003. |
| |
|
|
 |
Infos
Orolia’s board of directors met 7 times in 2010, with an average attendance rate of 86%.
 Board Charter 2010
|
 |
|
Cursus
Jean-Yves Courtois is a Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and holds a PhD in Physics. |
|
|
Cursus
Ron BUCKLY
holds a AB from the University of California at Berkeley; a JD from Hastings College of the Law (University of California) & a LL.M in Tax from New York University |
|
|
Cursus
Henri Magnan is a Graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers and holds a master's degree in computer science from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité |
|
|
Cursus
Nicolas VAILLANT is a graduate from the administrative and management academy, Institut de Préparation à l’Administration et la Gestion (1998). |
|
|
Cursus
Erik Van Der Kaay received his bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) Montreal. He also completed the Senior Executive Program in Business Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston |
|
|
