2021 Universal Registration Document

3 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Organisation and operation of governance

Each of these 10 key areas of expertise and experience are currently represented on the Board of Directors by several Directors (see table below):

Knowledge of consulting, digital

Opera- tional experi- ence within the Sopra Steria Group

Know- ledge

services, software development,

of one of the Group’s main vertical markets

Finance, risk manage- ment and control

Inter- national teams and organi- sations

Entre- pren- eurial experi- ence

CEO of an inter- national group

Human resources and labour relations

Know- ledge of Axway Software

ability to promote innovation

Societal priorities

Expertise

Astrid Anciaux Hélène Badosa Kathleen Clark Bracco André Einaudi David Elmalem Michael Gollner Noëlle Lenoir Éric Pasquier Pierre Pasquier Jean-Luc Placet Sylvie Rémond Marie-Hélène Rigal-Drogerys Jean-François Sammarcelli Éric Hayat

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Sopra GMT representative

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Jessica Scale

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In addition to these ten key areas of expertise and experience, and in pursuit of sustainable and profitable growth. It is primarily gained given the Group’s ownership structure, the Nomination, through serving as a corporate officer or senior manager in a Governance, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Committee also company – either listed or with a broad shareholder base – whose considers experience of corporate governance within family-owned main shareholder is either an individual or a family holding at least listed companies to be of benefit to potential Board members. Such 10% of the voting rights and who either runs the company or has experience promotes the use of key strengths and harnesses an the ability to choose who runs it. understanding of the challenges faced by family-owned companies

DIRECTORS REPRESENTING 1.2.5.

INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS 1.2.6. The Nomination, Governance, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility Committee also monitors the proportion of Independent Directors on the Board. Eight Directors are considered independent by the Board of Directors. They account for around 67% of Directors appointed by the shareholders at a General Meeting.

THE EMPLOYEES AND REPRESENTATION OF EMPLOYEE SHAREHOLDERS

Two Directors representing the employees were designated on p 23 September 2020 by the Sopra Steria Group Works Council. They are namely Hélène Badosa, a member of the Compensation Committee, and David Elmalem. A Director representing employee shareholders, Astrid Anciaux, p was elected at the General Meeting of Shareholders held on 26 May 2021.

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