Philippe Petitcolin
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Dear shareholders, I declare open this session of the combined shareholders meeting of Alstom. First of all, I would like to thank the shareholders attending the meeting as well as shareholders who did connect remotely to attend this shareholders’ meeting I have the honor to preside.
Attending today on stage, Mr. Martin Sion, the new CEO of your company, who will introduce himself in a moment. Madam Emmanuelle Petrovic, General Counsel; and Mr. Bernard-Pierre Delpit, Chief Financial Officer. I would like also to welcome here in the first row the members of our Board of Directors.
In accordance with the law, it is now my responsibility to appoint the presiding officers. I call upon the 2 members of the meeting who represent the larger number of votes and who have agreed to take on this role, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec as scrutineers. Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec share 80,930,484 shares represented by Mrs. Kim Thomassin and BPIFrance Investissement, which holds 34,930,254 shares represented by Mr. Samuel Dalens in the second row.
I would like now with the agreement of the scrutineers to appoint Madam Emmanuelle Petrovic as Secretary of the shareholders’ meeting. Representatives from Forvis Mazars and PricewaterhouseCoopers audit, statutory auditors for Alstom are also attending this meeting, and I would like to thank them indeed for being here with us.
I shall now hand over to Mrs. Emmanuelle Petrovic.