Laurence Danon Arnaud (born 6 January 1956) is a French businesswoman. She is chairman of her
family office Primerose SAS.
Early life and education
Danon is a graduate of the
École normale supérieure (Paris) (1977-1981) and graduate of France's elite
Corps des Mines (1981-1984), with a postgraduate diploma in
Organic Chemistry and ''agrégée'' with a senior postgraduate teaching qualification in
Physics.
Career
Career in the public sector
Danon began her career in 1984 at the
Ministry of Industry. First head of the Industrial Development division for the Region of Picardy, she moved to the Energy and Oil Direction of the Ministry in Paris as Head of Exploration - Production.
Career in the private sector
In 1989, Danon joined the
Elf Group where she was in charge of sales and marketing in the Polymer Division. Two years later, she was appointed Director at the Industrial Specialties Division, and in 1994 was nominated chief executive officer, World Functional Polymers Division. In 1996, she was appointed CEO of
Ato-Findley which became
Bostik after the takeover of Elf by
Total
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Mathematics
* Total, the summation of a set of numbers
* Total order, a partial order without incomparable pairs
* Total relation, which may also mean
** connected relation (a binary relation in which any two elements are comp ...
in 1999, and the merger of Ato-Findley and
Bostik which was led by her. With sales above 1 billion euros, Bostik became the number two in adhesives worldwide in 2000.
In 2001, Danon was nominated chairman and CEO of
Printemps, the French department store chain and Member of the executive committee of
PPR (Pinault Printemps Redoute - now KERING). Danon managed the group's repositioning into fashion and luxury goods. In the wake of Printemps sale in October 2006 for a record price of 1.1 Billion euros, she resigned her post in early 2007.
In 2007, Danon joined the world of Corporate Finance and became CEO of the
Edmond de Rothschild Group
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's Corporate Finance division.
[GECINA annonce des changements dans la composition de son Conseil]
(in French), Capital magazine, February 27, 2017. In 2013, she joined Leonardo & Co. SAS, a subsidiary of the Italian bank
Banca Leonardo as chairman of the board.
Following on the disposal of Leonardo & Co. SAS to
Natixis
Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of ''Natexis Banques Populaires'' (Banque Populaire group) and ''IXIS'' (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne ...
in 2015, Danon joined her
family office.
Other activities
Corporate boards
*
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2017)
*
Gecina, Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2017)
*
Amundi, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2015)
Board of Directors
Amundi.
* TF1
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TF1 is par ...
, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of Directors (since 2010)Diageo
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, Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of Directors (2006-2015)
* Plastic Omnium, Member of the Board of Directors (2003-2010)
* Experian
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, Member of the Board of Directors (2007-2010)
* Rhodia, Member of the Board of Directors (2008-2011)
* Groupe BPCE, Member of the Board of Directors (2009-2013)
Non-profit organizations
* Medef, chair of the Prospectives Commission (2005-2013)
* École des Mines de Nantes
École may refer to:
* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Sav ...
, chairman of the board (2000-2003)
* Ecole Normale Supérieure Foundation, chairman (2004–2006)
Recognition
* Member of the French Academy of Technologies
* Officer of the French Legion of Honour
References
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1956 births
Living people
French chief executives
French chairpersons of corporations
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Corps des mines