Lausanne – Patrice Gérardin, Member of the Alpiq Board of Directors, has informed the Board of Directors that he will not be standing for re-election to the Board of Directors of Alpiq Holding Ltd. EDF Alpes Investissements Sàrl has nominated Xavier Lafontaine for election at the Annual General Meeting.
Xavier Lafontaine (47) graduated from the engineering program of the École Centrale Paris and has held a variety of management positions within Électricité de France SA since 2000, where he has been Head of Market Economics in the strategy department since 2018. Xavier Lafontaine is a distinguished expert on strategic procurement and European energy trading and has many years of in-depth market experience. He is a member of the supervisory board of EEX AG (Germany) and a member of the board of directors of Powernext SA (France).
The shareholders will vote on the proposal at the next Annual General Meeting of Alpiq Holding Ltd. on 14 May 2019 in Olten.
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