Supervisory board member in several companies
Director since: 2023
Current appointment ends: SGM 2027
Number of VINCI shares held: 1,000 at 31/12/2023
Age: 59
Director considered independent by the Board of Directors.
Within the VINCI Group
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2023
None
Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
None
Outside the VINCI Group in listed companies
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2023
- Independent Director of Société Générale and member of both its Risk Committee and its Compensation Committee
- Director of Savencia Fromage & Dairy SA and member of its Audit Committee
Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
- Director of Essilor International SAS, Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee and member of its Strategy Committee (from 2018 to 2020)
- Director of EssilorLuxottica SA, member of both its Audit and Risk Committee and its Nomination and Compensation Committee (from 2018 to 2021)
In unlisted companies or other structures
Appointments and other positions held at 31/12/2023
Member of the Supervisory Board of Babbel Group AG (Germany) and Chair of its Risk and Audit Committee
Appointments and other positions that have expired during the last five financial years
None.
Background
Annette Messemer holds a PhD in political science from the University of Bonn, a master’s degree in international economics from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.
She started her career in investment banking at JP Morgan in New York in 1994, then in Frankfurt and London. She left JP Morgan in 2006 as a senior banker to join Merrill Lynch as Managing Director, Investment Banking at its German subsidiary, where she also served on the Executive Committee.
In 2010, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of WestLB by the German Ministry of Finance, before joining Commerzbank in 2013, where she was a member of the Group Executive Committee and Divisional Board Member for Corporate Clients until June 2018.