Another new face at Dassault. According to several sources, the non-executive president of Air France KLM, Anne-Marie Couderc, will join the wise committee of the Groupement Industriel Marcel Dassault (GIMD), the company controlled by the Dassault family. She will replace former Peugeot boss Jean-Martin Folz, who worked there for more than five years. She and she arrives at Dassault as her term as president of Air France KLM ends in May 2024.
The committee of wise men was created by Serge Dassault to decide the strategic options of the family empire in case of disagreement between his heirs. His children, Marie-Hélène, Thierry, Laurent and the children of Olivier, who died in 2021, do not get along, this committee has, in fact, a lot of power and important options to decide.
The next will be to prepare the succession of Charles Edelstenne, 85, president of the GIMD that controls all the empire’s stakes in Dassault Aviation (62%), Dassault Systèmes (40%), Le Figaro and indirectly Thales.
Estate of Charles Edelstenne
Officially, he is due to leave office at the beginning of 2025, but at the moment nothing has been organized. Although internally several sources report that his logical and designated successor is Eric Trappier, the head of Dassault Aviation.
Anne-Marie Couderc was proposed by Henri Proglio, former CEO of Veolia and EDF, who has just assumed the presidency of the committee following the death of Denis Kessler. It has been extensively renovated in the last two years. Anne-Marie Couderc is the third member of five to join in less than two years. Last year, the former Budget Minister, Alain Lambert, and the former president of Bred, Stève Gentili, made their entry.
Source: BFM TV
