Changes in McPhy Energy’s corporate governance for increased efficacy

[La Motte-Fanjas, 22 May 2015]

McPhy Energy, specialized in hydrogen production and storage equipment for industry and energy markets has made changes in its corporate governance, in particular, to streamline management operations and reduce operating costs through a unified structure governed by a Board of Directors.

All Supervisory Board members were unanimously appointed as directors. The General Meeting also appointed Pascal Mauberger and Myriam Maestroni. The Board of Directors’ meeting that followed unanimously appointed Pascal Mauberger as Chairman-Chief Executive Officer.

The Board thus created has eight members, including three independent directors:

• Myriam Maestroni, Chair-Founder of Economie d’Energie (independent director);
• Léopold Demiddeleer, Executive Director, New Business Development of Solvay S.A. until 2013 (independent director);
• Luc Poyer, Chairman of the Executive Board of E.ON France (independent director);
• Pascal Mauberger, until then McPhy Energy’s Executive Board Chairman;
• Arevadelfi;
• BPI France Investissement;
• Emertec Gestion;
• Sofinnova Partners.

Appointment as director of energy transition expert, Myriam Maestroni

A graduate of the Bordeaux Management School (Kedge Business School) and the University of Barcelona, with an MBA from the ESADE Business School, Myriam Maestroni has a strong interest in the field of energy. After exercising a number of executive positions with Dyneff/ Agip, specialized in the distribution of fuel products, she set up Primagaz’s Spanish subsidiary and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Myriam Maestroni continued her career in the Netherlands with SHV Holdings before being appointed Vice President for Sales and Marketing for Primagaz France, and then Chief Executive Officer

In 2011 she created Economie d’Energie to develop innovative programs to promote energy efficiency for major stakeholders from a number of sectors including Auchan, Carrefour, Esso, GDF, Leclerc, Total, Rexel, Schneider, etc.

With a particular interest in issues relating to both and sustainable innovation, Myriam Maestroni, was appointed Femme en Or de l’Environnement in 2014, and is an independent member of Albioma’s Board of Directors and chairman of its CSR Committee Her marketing expertise and broad vision of energy transition issues will provide a valuable contribution to McPhy Energy’s Board of Directors.

Adamo Screnci, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of McPhy Energy

Adamo Screnci, who has contributed since 2009 alongside Pascal Mauberger to McPhy Energy’s as Vice President for Sales, is appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

Adamo Screnci actively participated in strategic acquisitions and Italy and Germany that allowed McPhy Energy to develop a complete and complementary offering of hydrogen production and storage equipment. He also has spearheaded all key partnerships concluded to date or that are yet to be concluded.

“Adamo Screnci’s appointment as Deputy Chief Executive Officer is part of the acceleration of our commercial strategy in order to reap the rewards expected from the market for new uses of hydrogen. We welcome the addition to the Board of Directors of a figure of Myriam Maestroni’s stature and inspirational leadership in the field of energy transition as independent member”, concluded Pascal Mauberger, Chairman-CEO of McPhy Energy.