Governance
Executive Committee
Michaël Fribourg founded Groupe Familial Fribourg, the controlling shareholder of Colombus Holding, alongside long-term institutional investors and several French family offices. He began his career in the cabinet office of Renaud Dutreil (Minister for Trade, Craft Industry and Small Businesses and Enterprises), where he worked from 2005 to -2006 before joining the Inspection générale des finances (the French tax inspectorate), where he led several advisory and support projects for the French administration and for the Office of the French President.
Michaël Fribourg
Chairman
Chief Executive Officer
As Secretary General of Chargeurs, Joëlle Fabre-Hoffmeister is responsible for the Human Resources and Internal Communications Department, and supervises the activities of the Group's Legal Department and Tax Department. In conjunction with the Group's Finance Department, she directs the Group's risk management policy and defines Chargeurs' values and sustainable development model...
Joëlle Fabre-Hoffmeister
Group General Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer
In 1984, Laurent Derolez joined the wool division of the Chargeurs group. In 1998, he was appointed manager of Novacel. Two years later, he was heading the subsidiary Chargeurs Protective Films, whose growth he has promoted and whose position as international leader he strengthened. Laurent Derolez has devoted his entire career to Industry, a large part of which internationally (Argentina, Australia, Spain, etc.). Entering in the workforce in the early 80s as a business engineer at Framatome, he has made of Novacel, since taking office as CEO, the world leader in the surface protection market, present in 54 country, and a flagship company in Normandy. Laurent Derolez is a graduate of the School Les Arts et Métiers.
Laurent Derolez
Chief Executive Officer, Chargeurs Protective Films
Angela Chan joined the Chargeurs group in February 2018. She is Managing Director of Chargeurs PCC Fashion Technologies, the world's leading interlining company. Previously Chief Sourcing Officer and SVP Global Business Development and Sourcing at Destination XL, an international multi-channel men's apparel retailer in the United States, Angela Chan joined the Chargeurs group in order to develop Chargeurs Fashion Technologies' activities...
Angela Chan
Chief Executive Officer, Chargeurs PCC Fashion Technologies
Sampiero Lanfranchi
Chief Executive Officer, Chargeurs Museum Solutions and Advisor to the CEO
Federico Paullier
Chief Executive Officer, Chargeurs Luxury Materials
Board of Directors
Michaël Fribourg founded Groupe Familial Fribourg, the controlling shareholder of Colombus Holding, alongside long-term institutional investors and several French family offices. He began his career in the cabinet office of Renaud Dutreil (Minister for Trade, Craft Industry and Small Businesses and Enterprises), where he worked from 2005 to -2006 before joining the Inspection générale des finances (the French tax inspectorate), where he led several advisory and support projects for the French administration and for the Office of the French President.
Michaël Fribourg
Chairman
Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Acquisitions Committee
Cécilia Ragueneau
Independent director
Chair of the Compensation Committee
For the last eight years, Emmanuel Coquoin has been Investment Director at Habert Dassault Finance. He is a graduate of IEP Paris and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He began his career at Barclays Bank, Paris as an analyst and subsequently worked in the Corporate Finance division in London as an Associate Director.
Colombus Holding
Director Permanent representative of Colombus Holding SAS on the Board of Directors: Emmanuel Coquoin
Member of the Audit Committee and Member of the Acquisitions Committee
A graduate of HEC Business School, Isabelle Guichot began her career at Cartier International where she held the following posts: Project Manager at Cartier Incorporated in New York (1988-89) and then Vice Secretary General (1989-91); Sales Director at Cartier International (1992-95), Chief Executive Officer of Cartier SA France (1996-99), President and Chief Executive Officer of Van Cleef & Arpels International (1999-2005) and Lancel (2003-2005)...
Isabelle Guichot
Independent director
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Ethics Committee
Georges Ralli holds a post graduate diploma in banking and finance from the University of Paris-V, and is a graduate of the Paris Institut d’études politiques (economics and finance option) and the Institut commercial in Nancy. He joined Crédit Lyonnais in 1970 where he served in a number of management positions until 1981...
Georges Ralli
Non-voting director
Maria Varciu holds an MBA from Open University Business School (United Kingdom and Romania), and has considerable experience in international commercial management for perfume and high-end cosmetic brands, which she has acquired both in France and abroad. In 2006, she joined IKC (International Kontact Consulting), before integrating LVMH’s Parfums Givenchy in 2009. At the end of 2010, she returned to IKC, which had become ID Beauty, to lead the international commercial department. She subsequently became VP Brands in 2015.
Maria Varciu
Independent director
Member of the Audit Committee
Nicolas Urbain is currently Chief Executive Officer of EFFICAP II. He holds a post-graduate degree in corporate and tax law from Paris II University and is a certified public accountant. Mr. Urbain has worked for Clinvest in both Paris and New York and has served in various management positions at companies in the pharmaceutical, services and real estate investment industries. He has also been a financial engineering consultant.
Nicolas Urbain
Director (appointed by the Board)
Member of the Compensation Committee and Member of the Acquisitions Committee