Patrice Caine - Thales SA Chairman

Mr. Patrice Caine was Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Executive Committee of THALES S.A. since December 23, 2014. He is Chairman of the Strategic and Corporationrationrate Social Responsibility Committee at the Company. Prior to that, he was Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Chief Performance Officer, Member of the Executive Committee at the Company from February 4, 2013. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines de Paris and holds the rank of Chief engineer of the Corporationration des Mines. He began his career in 1992 with the pharmaceutical group Fournier before becoming an adviser on mergers, acquisitions and corporate strategy at Charterhouse Bank Limited in London. From 1995 to 1998, he was special adviser to the Prefect of the FrancheComt region of France and head of the Industrial Development and Energy Division at DRIRE, the French agency responsible for industry, research and the environment. From 1998 to 2000, he joined the Conseil General des Mines, in charge of human resources for the Corporationration des Mines. At the same time, he was responsible for training engineering students at the Ecole des Mines de Paris for the Technical Grand Corporationration of the French State. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the technical advisor on energy at the cabinet office of the French Minister for the economy, finance and industry. In 2002, Mr. Caine joined the Thales Group Strategy department before being appointed to manage the following operating units Air Naval, Communication, Navigation Identification, Air Systems, Radiocommunication Products, and Network Infrastructure Systems and Protection Systems. He was awarded the Medaille de la Defense Nationale and in 2014, he was named Chevalier de lOrdre National du Merite . since 2014.