Signify proposes to appoint Sophie Bechu as Supervisory Board member
November 08 2022 - 2:00AM
Signify proposes to appoint Sophie Bechu as Supervisory Board
member
Press Release
November 8, 2022
Signify proposes to appoint
Sophie Bechu as
Supervisory Board member
Eindhoven, the
Netherlands – Signify (Euronext: LIGHT),
the world leader in lighting, today announces that its Supervisory
Board will propose the appointment of Mrs. Sophie Bechu as a member
of the Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting of
Shareholders (AGM) to be held in May 2023. Mrs. Bechu will attend
Supervisory Board meetings as observer until the AGM vote.
Sophie Bechu (French/American, 61) has been a member of the
Board of Directors of Quotient Limited since September 2022. During
her long career, she has built up extensive executive experience in
operations, services and technology. From 2016 to October 2022, she
served as Chief Operations Officer on the Executive Committee of
Royal Philips, where she established Philips’ integrated supply
chain organization, and optimized the supplier base and
manufacturing footprint with cost, efficiency and sustainability in
mind. Prior to this, Mrs. Bechu worked for over 30 years with
IBM Corporation, where she held various executive positions, most
recently Vice President, Strategic Outsourcing, North America
Delivery. In these roles, she drove operational excellence in
operations, business transformation, service/solutions delivery and
IT services delivery.
Mrs. Bechu holds an Automation, Electrical Engineering
decree from the École supérieure d’électricité in Paris.
Mrs. Bechu has lived and worked in France, Hong Kong, India,
US and the Netherlands.
“We are very pleased that Mrs. Bechu is available to join
our board,” said Mr. Arthur van der Poel, Chair of the Supervisory
Board of Signify. “She has a wealth of experience in operations and
a strong connection to the US market, which since our acquisition
of Cooper Lighting Solutions in 2020 has become increasingly
important for Signify.”
Additional information on the composition of the Supervisory
Board can be found here.
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please contact:
Signify Investor Relations
Thelke GerdesTel: +31 6 1801 7131E-mail:
thelke.gerdes@signify.com
Signify Corporate
CommunicationsAbigail LeveneTel: +31 6 2939 3895E-mail:
abigail.levene@signify.com
About Signify
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) is the world leader in
lighting for professionals and consumers and lighting for the
Internet of Things. Our Philips products, Interact connected
lighting systems and data-enabled services deliver business value
and transform life in homes, buildings and public spaces. In 2021,
we had sales of EUR 6.9 billion, approximately 37,000 employees and
a presence in over 70 countries. We unlock the extraordinary
potential of light for brighter lives and a better world. We
achieved carbon neutrality in 2020, have been in
the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since our IPO
for five consecutive years and were named Industry
Leader in 2017, 2018 and 2019. News from
Signify is located at
the Newsroom, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Information for investors can be found on the Investor
Relations page.
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