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Group overview Group presentation [GRI 102-1] [GRI 102-3] [GRI 102-6]

A.6.3.2

A.6.3.3

Recent Acquisition and Disposal

Holdings

of subsidiaries

As mentioned in Section A.5.2, in 2017 Worldline took a minority shareholding in the capital of the African fintech InTouch of and holds 26 % of the share capital and voting rights. This holding is not significant for the Group and was classified as “non current financial asset” in the consolidated Group’s 2017 consolidated accounts.

Please refer to Section A.6.1 for a description of the acquisition of First Data Baltics, MRL Posnet, Digital River World Payments and Diamis, to the increase in the participation within Cataps s.r.o. as well as the Disposal of the Cheques Services business.

Management and organization [GRI 102-18] [GRI 102-22] [GRI 102-23]

A.6.4

The Company is a public limited company with a Board of Directors. A description of the main statutes of the Society regarding the Board of Directors, in particular concerning its operating mode and authority, as well as a resume of the main stipulations of the internal rules of the Board of Directors and the specialized Committees is available at chapter G “Corporate Governance and Capital” of this Document.

A.6.4.2

Personnal informations concerning the Executive Committeemembers

A.6.4.1

The Executive Committee

Gilles Grapinet is a graduate of the École Nationale d’Administration and a French Inspecteur Général des Finances (General Finance Inspector). He was Director of Information Systems and Strategy at the French Direction Générale des Impôts (Tax department), and Director of the Copernic program, charged with creating an “e-Tax department” for electronic filing of tax returns and payment of taxes. He was an economic and financial adviser to the French Prime Minister in 2003 and 2004, and then chief of staff (Directeur de cabinet) to two ministers of the Economy and Finances from 2004 to 2007. In 2007, he became a member of the Executive Committee of Crédit Agricole SA, in charge of Strategy and later of the Group’s Systems and Payment Services division. Mr. Grapinet joined Atos in December 2008. He currently serves as Senior Executive Vice President in charge of Global Functions of the Atos group, in which capacity he has headed Global Support Functions, ensured coordination and development of Global Sales and Marketing as well as of the Consulting and Technology Services division of the Atos group, and supervised development of the Group’s activities. Mr. Grapinet has been Worldline’s Chief Executive Officer since July 2013. He received the French Légion d’Honneur (Chevalier) in 2011. Marc-Henri Desportes is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and of the École des Mines de Paris. He was Deputy Program Director of the Copernic program at the French Ministry of Finances from 2000 to 2005, and then was in charge of audit coordination at BNP Paribas from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Desportes was then Chief Information Officer at BNL, BNP Paribas’ Italian subsidiary. He joined the Atos group in 2009 as Director of the Global Innovation Business Development & Strategy Global Business Lines (GIBS), and then became Director of the High Technology Settlement Services and Specialized Activities Business Unit in July 2011. Mr. Desportes is a member of the Executive Committee of Atos SE and has been Senior Executive Vice President of the Company since July 2013.

The role of the Executive Committee is to develop and implement the Group’s strategy, while delivering service quality and added value to the Group’s projects for the benefit of its clients, shareholders and employees. It is also charged with improving interaction and cooperation among the Group’s three Global Business Lines and among the different geographic markets where the Group does business. The composition of the Group’s Executive Committee is as follows: Gilles Grapinet (Chief Executive Officer); ● Marc-Henri Desportes (General Manager); ● Lisa Coleman (CEO of Worldline UK); ● Christophe Duquenne (Chief Technology Officer); ● Claude France (Head of Operations of Worldline France); ● Charles-Henri de Taffin (General Counsel, Head of Legal & ● Compliance); Patrice Gry (Human Resources Director); ● Eric Heurtaux (Chief Financial Officer); ● Wolf Kunisch (equensWorldline Chief Operation Officer and ● Deputy CEO); Pascal Mauzé (Group Sales and Marketing’ Director); ● Vincent Roland (Director of the Merchant Services); ● Michael Steinbach (CEO of equensWorldline); ● Olivier Stuckens (Director of the Mobility & e-Transactional ● Services global business line).

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