Management Committee and Executive Committee

Frédéric Vincent
Chairman and CEO
Frédéric Vincent is Chairman and CEO of Nexans since May 2009.
In 2006 Frédéric Vincent was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Nexans. From 1978 to 1985 he was a member of a major audit firm. After joining Alcatel in 1986, Frédéric Vincent integrated the Cables and Components sector in 1989, where he was appointed in 1994 Deputy Managing Director (Administration and Finance) of Alcatel's undersea telecommunications activities, and in 1997 of Saft, Alcatel's batteries activity. He became Nexans' Chief Financial Officer in 2000.
Frédéric Vincent is a graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. He has a Bachelor in Business Law.

Frédéric Michelland
Chief Financial Officer, Senior Corporate Executive Vice President
He started his professional career with JP Morgan and SG Warburg where he worked in trading rooms, in France and abroad. In 1996, he joined the Financial Department of the Suez Group as Corporate Finance Officer. He worked first on Mergers and Acquisitions in the frame of Suez development in the energy sector. He was then responsible of the Group’s quotation project in the United States. In 2000, he was appointed Financial Communication Director. In 2003, he moved to the head of the Financial Control Department of the Group.
Frédéric Michelland is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris and of INSEAD, with a Master's degree in Finance and an MBA.

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Yvon Raak 
Senior Corporate Executive Vice President, in charge of defining and implementation of industrial and logistics strategy; the Western Europe, Northern Europe and Central Europe Areas report to him
Until 2003, Yvon Raak was President of the Energy Division within Nexans. He joined the Cables and Components sector of Alcatel in 1999 as President of the Telecom Products Division within the Executive Committee. From 1997 to 1999 he was Senior Vice President, Strategy & Management, of Alstom Énergie and Chairman and CEO of Alstom Énergie SA. He joined Alstom in 1992 as Director before being appointed Chairman and CEO of European Gas Turbine SA. He began his career with Alcatel as Plant Manager at the Jeumont plant of Câbleries de Lens.
Yvon Raak is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and of the Ecole des Mines.

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Nicholas Ballas
Executive Vice President Asia-Pacific area
Nicholas Ballas joined Nexans in 2009. Prior to joining the company, Nick was Vice President and General Manager of the Asia Pacific region for Cabot Corporation, a global specialty chemicals company based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Nick joined Cabot in 1987 and held various positions in finance, strategy and general management in the USA, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Nicholas Ballas has an MBA degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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Wolfgang Bedorf
Executive Vice President Middle East Russia Africa Area
Dr Bedorf started his career in engineering management with AEG AG (later Daimler Benz AG) progressing to the position of Manager of the Electrical Machines and Transformers Division. He joined Alcatel Cable in 1995 as manager of the Energy Network Cable Business Group. When the company split-off from the Alcatel Group in 2000 to form Nexans, he became Chairman of the Management Board for Nexans in Germany and Country Manager. From 2000 to 2004, he was also manager of the Nexans Energy Networks Business Group. Since 2005, he has supervised both Nexans’ business in the Central Europe Area and the Harnesses Business Group. Outside of Nexans, Dr Bedorf is a board member of the Association of the German Electro-Technics and Electronic Industry.
Dr Bedorf graduated as a doctor of engineering from the Technical University of Aachen.

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Norbert Bluthé
Executive Vice President, Western Europe, Country Manager, France
Norbert Bluthé started his professional career with Rhodia where he was involved in research, marketing and management of business units in France and in the U.S. In 2005, he joined Nexans France as Building and Infastructure Activities Manager. He was then appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 2008. He moved to Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of Nexans France at beginning of 2009.
Norbert Bluthé graduated from the Ecole Polytehnique and the CEDEP (INSEAD). He has a Ph.D. of organic chemistry.

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Willam English
Executive Vice President, Northern Europe
William English started his career in 1973 in the aluminum industry, and joined the financial department of Alcatel in 1978. He worked first as Financial Controller in the Public Switching Division, and then in the Business Systems Division. He was appointed Finance Director for Alcatel in the UK in 1985, and subsequently was responsible for the Telecom activities of the Business Systems Division in the UK. He became head of Financial Control of Alcatel in 1994, and joined Alcatel Câble en 1998. After having been in charge of the Industrial Applications Product Line,  he was appointed Country Manager for Benelux in 2001.
William English graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris.

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Stephen Hall
Executive Vice-President for the Group’s North America Area

Stephen Hall started his career with Shell Canada and joined Canada Wire & Cable* in 1986 to focus on developing process control systems for the cable industry. He has held a wide variety of management roles within the company covering Engineering, IT, Production and General Management. Earlier in 2009, he was appointed as Chief Operating Officer responsible for production and sales for North America. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University and an MBA from York University. Stephen is a Canadian and currently based in Ontario, Canada.

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Francis Krähenbühl
Executive Vice President, Central Europe
Francis Krähenbühl began his career as R&D Manager of Câbles Cortaillod in 1987. From 1993 to 2004, he was holding different responsibilities in the Swiss management and the Product Line organization of Alcatel Cable and Nexans. He was appointed Country Manager and head of Nexans Switzerland in 2004 and became Country Manager Nexans Germany in 2008.
Since 2008, he is member of the board of the ZVEI (German Association of the Electrical and Electronic Industry) and chairman of the Cables and Insulated Wire Committee.
Francis Krähenbühl graduated as a doctor of Physical Chemistry from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Jean-Claude Nicolas
Senior Corporate Vice President Communications
Jean-Claude Nicolas started his career in 1978 with the PSA Peugeot Citroën group where he held different positions within the Coporate Communications department before he was appointed Communications Associate Director. He joined the SNECMA group in 1990 as Communications Director. Then, from 1996 to 1997, he was in charge of communications for the French Automotive Industry Committee. In early 1997, he became Communcations Director of Pechiney. He joined Airbus in 2003 as Communications Director until the end of 2005.
He joined Nexans in March 2006 to become the Group's Communications Director.
Jean-Claude Nicolas has a Master in law and is a graduate of the Institut des Sciences Politiques of Paris.    

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Patrick Noonan
General Counsel, Senior Corporate Vice President, Secretary General
Patrick Noonan is in charge of the headquarters legal, risk and insurance departments. He has been General Counsel of the Nexans Group since 2001 and Secretary of the Board of Directors. He began his professional carrier in the United States at major law firms in Washington D.C. and Palo Alto before joining Texas Instruments in France in 1985 as European Counsel. In 1988, he joined Alcatel NV (Brussels and Paris) before going to Canada in 1992 to become General Counsel of the Americas Sector of Alcatel Cable. In 1996, he became General Counsel of the Cables & Components Sector of Alcatel and in 1998 was appointed Deputy General Counsel of Alcatel.
Patrick Noonan is a graduate of Stanford University in the United States (B.S. Engineering, Juris Doctor).

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Jacques Villemur
Senior Corporate Vice President Human Resources
He started his career in 1975 at the Export Department of Stein Industrie, where he held, successively, the position of Management Control Director, General Secretary (in charge, particularly, of human resources) and Chief Financial Officer. He joined Alcatel Cable in 1994 as Management Control Director of the German subsidiary. Two years later, he was appointed Vice President Planning & Finance Analysis for the Telecom Division of the Cable group. From 2001 to 2006, he was Vice President Financial Control & Consolidation within the Nexans Group. End of 2006, he joined the Corporate Human Resources Department as Corporate Vice President in charge of Career Management.
Jacques Villemur is a graduate of the French Business School HEC in Paris.

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