Remi Baudin. Before helping Pierre Bellon to create Sodexho Alliance, Mr. Baudin took part in a number of foreign projects for the management consultant company SEMA from 1957 to 1965. He reorganized and managed its ship supply business (1965-1969), then created a joint venture with Sonatrach in the Remote
Sites business and headed the two companies' joint subsidiary in Algeria (1969-1970). He successively managed the Food and Management Services France division and started up operations in Belgium (1971-1976); the France and Africa division, overseeing start-ups in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Angola, Benin, Guinea, Algeria and Libya (1977-1982); and the Food and Management Services France and Europe division (1982-1992). Mr. Baudin is also President of FERCO, the European food services confederation, which he founded in 1988 and is the President of the Supervisory Board of Octofinances SA. He was Chairman of the Bellon SA Supervisory Board from 1996 until February 2002 and currently serves
as its Vice Chairman. |