Fiscal 2020 Universal Registration Document

5. Corporate governance

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BELLON

Born September 10, 1965
French nationality
Graduate of the European Business School
First appointed: July 26, 1989
Expiration of current term: at the Annual Shareholders Meeting held to adopt the financial statements for Fiscal 2021

Member of the Audit Committee.

Number of Sodexo shares held: 36,383

Business address:
Sodexo
255, quai de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)

Main role: Chairman of the Management Board, Bellon SA

Background

François-Xavier Bellon began his career in 1990 with the Adecco group, working first in France and then in Spain.

In 1995, he joined the Sodexo Group, taking up an operational role in the Healthcare segment in France. In 1999, he was appointed Regional Director in Mexico and subsequently became Chief Executive Officer of Sodexo Mexique.

In 2004, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sodexo UK & Ireland but he resigned from this position a few months later due to health problems.

He rejoined the Adecco group in September 2014 and headed up the Sales and Marketing Department of the Global Staffing Division as well as managing the group’s key international accounts, based between Zurich and London.

In May 2007, François-Xavier Bellon took over a company based in the United Kingdom that provides home care services to dependent people, of which he became Chief Executive Officer before founding LifeCarers. He then left LifeCarers in November 2019 to focus on his various roles within Bellon SA and Sodexo.

Other positions and corporate offices held

Companies linked to Sodexo

FRENCH COMPANIES

  • Chairman of the Management Board: Bellon SA

FOREIGN COMPANIES
None

Companies not linked to Sodexo

FRENCH COMPANIES

  • Chief Executive Officer: PB Holding SAS

FOREIGN COMPANIES
None

Other positions and corporate offices held within the past five years but no longer held
  • Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors: Bright Yellow Group**  (UK) (Term ended: April 2016); LifeCarers Ltd. (UK) (Term ended: November 2019)
  • Member of the Board of Directors: Bright Yellow Solutions Ltd.**  (UK) (Term ended: April 2016); Footprint Ltd (Term ended: April 2016); U1st Sports SA (Spain) (Term ended: January 2019); House of HR (Belgium) (Term ended: January 2019)
  • Advisor: French Foreign Trade Commission (Term ended: December 2018)

** LifeCarerS Ltd. company.