Evolution direction generale

PARIS, France - Jun 19, 2013 - Corporate news


DAHER General Management appointments and changes


Paris, June 14, 2013 - DAHER, tier-1 supplier to the high-technology industries, is overhauling its organization to better reach the targets set out in the Performance 2017 strategic plan.

Retirement of Jean-Paul Lafitte.
Jean-Paul Lafitte, Group Executive Vice-President and President of the Capital Goods Division, is retiring. Jean-Paul Lafitte has 40 years' experience in the services field, and joined DAHER in 1987. Through the various management positions he held within the Group, he has contributed significantly to developing the Group and making it what it is today.

Stephane Mayer remains President of the Aerospace & Defence Division and is appointed Group Executive Vice-President.
Stephane Mayer graduated from France's Ecole Polytechnique engineering school, and gained further qualifications from ENSAE and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He has held successive posts as Audit Director, CFO and VP Spare Parts then Board member for a number of major industrial groups. In 2003 he became Chairman and CEO of EADS SOCATA, then ATR, before joining DAHER in 2010.

Didier Kayat remains Group Executive Vice-President and President of the Nuclear & Energy Division, and is appointed President of the Capital Goods Division.
A graduate of ESCP Europe, with 25 years' experience in strategy, he established a strategy and organization consulting firm in 1993 which counted DAHER Group amongst its customers, before joining DAHER in 2007.

Creation of an Executive Committee (COMEX) and expansion of the Management Committee (CODIR).
The Group Executive Committee will be made up of five people: Patrick Daher (Chairman and CEO), Didier Kayat (Executive Vice-President and President of the Nuclear & Energy and Capital Goods Divisions), Stephane Mayer (Executive Vice-President and President of the Aerospace & Defence Division), Francis Etienne (Human Resources Director) and Florent Perdriau (CFO).
This Executive Committee is being expanded to include the managers of Group quality and industrial strategy (Giles Guillon), Group logistics and services strategy (Patrick Jeanroy), and Strategic projects management (Nicolas Orance), to form the Group Management Committee.


About DAHER - www.daher.com
DAHER is a tier-1 equipment supplier to the high-technology industries.
An independent intermediate-sized company, DAHER deploys its integrated equipment and services supplier model across the Aerospace & Defence, Nuclear & Energy and Capital Goods Industries sectors, and its growth is centred on complementary sets of expertise (Industrial Design and Manufacturing, Integrated Industrial SupportTM), combined into a comprehensive global offering. With a robust engineering-based approach, DAHER is able to deliver innovative and differentiating solutions to its industrial customers.
Created in 1863, DAHER is an international group, present in 12 countries across the world. DAHER generates a turnover of more than 925 million euros, with an order book corresponding to around 3 years of turnover.

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