Identity is evolving, and so is IN Groupe
The development of new activities, along with an expanded international presence, have reinforced the Group’s ambition to defend the identity of all people – whether that identity be physical or digital – as well as ensure the security of different interactions.
To support this goal, the Group relies on a governance structure composed of a Board of Directors and Executive Committee. The Board of Directors is supported by four committees in charge of monitoring the Group’s strategic actions, as well as defining and ensuring the effective use of resources to achieve performance targets. The Group has also set up six control mechanisms that enable it to advance even further with regard to data protection, cybersecurity and ethical and social commitments.
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors defines the strategic orientation of the Group, based on strategic lines laid down by general management. The Board examines all matters relating to the company’s operations and makes decisions in accordance therewith.
The Board of Directors, in its capacity as the company’s governing body, acts in the company’s corporate interests. Its role is to deliberate on the strategic, economic, financial, and technological direction of the Group and its subsidiaries, and to ensure that activities aligned with this direction are implemented by general management. This governance role is based on the application of Ordinance 2014-948 of 20 August 2014, pertaining to the governance and management of capital belonging to public shareholding companies.
State-Appointed Director
Victor Richon
State Representative
Directors appointed by the General Assembly/Independent Directors
Didier Trutt
Chair of the Board of Directors/ Chair of the Strategic Committee
Didier Trutt is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of IN Groupe. He was CEO from 2009 to July 2024.
Previously, he was a member of the Executive Committee of Thomson SA and Senior Executive Vice President in charge of the Grass Valley Business Group within Thomson SA since September 2008.
He joined the Thomson Group in 1984, where he held various international management positions in Europe and South Asia. He was one of the key players in the company's transformation from analogue to digital.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of TCL (China) and VIDEOCON (India) from 2004 to 2009. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of FDJ (France) and RATP (France).
On the strength of this experience, he joined IN Groupe to support the Group's growth and transformation.
Didier Trutt has also been a French Foreign Trade Advisor since 1992.
Agnès Diallo
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Agnès Diallo has held executive positions for over 20 years in both private and public sector groups, as well as in institutional organizations in France and Europe. Her expertise spans digital transformation and trusted digital services to industrial operations and the management of large strategic projects.
At the beginning of 2023, Agnès Diallo joined the European agency eu-LISA as Executive Director. eu-LISA is responsible for information systems related to security, borders, and judicial cooperation. During her tenure, she developed interoperable platforms at the core of the Schengen area's digitalization, particularly the Entry/Exit System (EES), one of the most advanced border management systems in the world.
Agnès Diallo also held leadership positions at IN Groupe from 2019 to 2022, serving as Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Committee, first heading the Group's Digital Services division and later as Director of Strategy, M&A, and Performance. Before that, she held executive roles in a major digital group and was a managing director at a leading international business strategy consulting firm.
Agnès Diallo is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, ESSEC Business School, and Harvard University.
Aurélie Stock-Poeuf
Patrick Chapuis
Directors appointed by the General Assembly, based on State recommendation
Valérie Thérond
Chair of the Audit and Accounts Committee
Aude Simmer
Chair of the Governance and CSR Committee
Franck Bouetard
Chair of the Offers Committee
Franck Bouétard is a French tech senior advisor helping equity funds in their investments and mid-size European companies CEOs to scale up their businesses, in domains like AI, circular economy, electronic components, billing systems, cybersecurity, telecommunications, EV charging infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, …
He was Chairman of the Board of Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Croatia up to the end of 2024 and is member of the Boards of Hub One, the telecom subsidiary of Aéroport de Paris, of Article 1, which works in favor of equal opportunities for young people, of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in France and of Telecom Paris Tech engineering school.
Graduated from Telecom Paris Tech and IFA Sciences Po (Institut Français des Administrateurs), his career has been, up to the end of 2023, in large tech global industrial and services companies moving progressively to executive roles (Andersen Consulting, Elf Aquitaine, Ungermann Bass, Alcatel, Ericsson). His last corporate position has been CEO of Ericsson for France, Belgium, Luxemburg and North Africa region.
He has always been working on international assignments and has been living in France, Germany, England and Sweden; this gave him a good understanding of cultural distances in business. He is a convinced European citizen, a strong believer of technologies to insure the sovereignty of Europe and an engaged defender of education and learning culture for the sake of European competitiveness, social stability and security.
Directors representing employees
Céline Gouveia
Annick Eytier
Christophe Hurez
Vincent Grignon
The four committees of the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors relies on the proposals, recommendations, and opinions of four committees, defined as follows:
Strategic Committee
The Strategic Committee is tasked by the Board of Directors with improving the quality of information emanating from the directors and Board discussions, with regard to the Group's strategic direction.
The Strategic Committee is composed of the following members:
Didier Trutt
Chair of the Board of Directors / Chair of the Strategy Committee
Agnès Diallo
CEO / Independent director
Aurélie Stock-Poeuf
Independent Director
Franck Bouétard
Chair of the Offers Committee
Victor Richon
Director – State Representative
Patrick Chapuis
Independent Director
Audit and Accounts Committee
The Audit and Accounts Committee is tasked by the Board of Directors with monitoring issues relating to the preparation and auditing of accounting and financial information.
The Audit and Accounts Committee is composed of the following members:
Valérie Thérond
Chair of the Audit and Accounts Committee / Director appointed by the General Meeting on the recommendation of the French State
Victor Richon
Director – State Representative
Patrick Chapuis
Independent Director
Aude Simmer
Director appointed by the General Meeting on the proposal of the French State
Governance and CSER Committee
The Governance and CSER (Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility) Committee is tasked by the Board of Directors with recommending individuals who, apart from the CEO, should be appointed as corporate officers of the Company, proposing policies for the remuneration of corporate officers, and reviewing the Company's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy.
This committee is composed of the following members:
Aude Simmer
Chair of the Governance & CSR Committee / Director appointed by the General Meeting on the recommendation of the French State
Ludovic Plante
Director - State Representative
Valérie Thérond
Chair of the Audit and Accounts Committee / Director appointed by the General Meeting on the recommendation of the French State
Victor Richon
Director – State Representative
Offers Committee
The Offers Committee is tasked by the Board of Directors with examining commercial offers that are complex, or that involve acquiring a stake in the capital of a company that IN Groupe or one of its subsidiaries is planning to submit.
This committee is composed of the following members:
Franck Bouétard
Chair of the Offers Committee/Director appointed by the General Assembly, based on State recommendation
Agnès Diallo
CEO / Independent Director
Aurélie Stock-Poeuf
Independent Director
Valérie Thérond
Director appointed by the General Assembly, based on State recommendation
Victor Richon
Director – State Representative
Members of the Executive Committee
IN Groupe’s Executive Committee represents the entirety of the Group’s operating divisions and support functions. The Executive Committee analyses performance and results, decides on actions for achieving set objectives and manages the Group’s operations.
Agnès Diallo
CEO
Agnès Diallo has held executive positions for over 20 years in both private and public sector groups, as well as in institutional organizations in France and Europe. Her expertise spans digital transformation and trusted digital services to industrial operations and the management of large strategic projects.
At the beginning of 2023, Agnès Diallo joined the European agency eu-LISA as Executive Director. eu-LISA is responsible for information systems related to security, borders, and judicial cooperation. During her tenure, she developed interoperable platforms at the core of the Schengen area's digitalization, particularly the Entry/Exit System (EES), one of the most advanced border management systems in the world.
Agnès Diallo also held leadership positions at IN Groupe from 2019 to 2022, serving as Executive Vice President and member of the Executive Committee, first heading the Group's Digital Services division and later as Director of Strategy, M&A, and Performance. Before that, she held executive roles in a major digital group and was a managing director at a leading international business strategy consulting firm.
Agnès Diallo is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, ESSEC Business School, and Harvard University.
Yann Haguet
Executive Vice President Identity Division
Since May 2017, Yann Haguet has been in charge of IN Groupe's Biometric Identity Solutions Division. Prior to that, he was with the Thales Group, which he joined in 2000, initially in charge of export programmes for Transport projects before becoming Director for “Integrated Transport Supervision Systems” France, in 2007. From 2011, he was responsible for driving Thales’ identity management business.
Yann Haguet has two engineering degrees, from INSA Rennes and SUPELEC.
Jean-Laurent Donato
Executive Vice President Secure Components Division
Michaël Zafrany
Vice President Business Performance and Operations
Michael Zafrany joined SPS in 2009.
During his career with Gemalto and Thales, he held various management roles in the areas of research and development, product management, industrial strategy and operations management.
Michael Zafrany holds a doctorate in engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) and an executive MBA from HEC.
Narcisse Duarte de Freitas
Acting Executive Vice President Digital Services Division
Viken Gazarian
Executive Vice President Strategy, Finance and Integration
Viken Gazarian has over 20 years' experience in the technology sector. An expert in strategy, mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance, he has held key roles at Oberthur Technologies and IDEMIA, where he led M&A operations, the strategic plan, and piloted a business unit. A former senior manager in consulting and a graduate of Centrale Supélec, he began his career in telecommunications in the USA. At IN Groupe, he is responsible for Strategy, M&A, Finance, Integration and IT, ensuring the coherence and success of the Group's strategic priorities.
Arnaud Dillenschneider
Group Human Resources Director
Audrey Mariani
Secretary General and Executive Vice President Public Affairs and Communication
Before joining IN Groupe as Secretary General in 2021, Audrey Mariani held various positions in the legal affairs department of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, followed by the Agence des Participations de l'État (State Participation Agency).
As a qualified lawyer, Audrey was also a member of the Supervisory Board and the Audit and Remuneration Committee of Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport until 2017.
During a period of three years in the United States, she had the opportunity of working in the press sector as well as with the French Embassy.
Romain Galesne-Fontaine
Executive Vice President for Internal and External Communication
Romain Galesne-Fontaine joined the Imprimerie Nationale in 2015.
Previously Director of Public Affairs in a strategy consulting firm, he led various projects in the fields of cybersecurity and digital trust. He also held responsibilities in ministerial cabinets as well as Parliament (National Assembly).
Romain Galesne-Fontaine is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
Antoine Paoli
Chief Purchasing Officer
Antoine Paoli joined the Imprimerie Nationale in 1987 and was responsible for investments as well as a project for building a new factory, which he would manage until 1998.
He then took over the management of the Istra subsidiary until 2004, at which point he joined the head office to manage the industrial side of the company’s restructuring plan, before being appointed Chief Administrative Officer in 2008.
Antoine Paoli is a graduate of the École Centrale de Nantes and holds a master's degree in business management from the IFG. He is also preparing for a master’s degree in dematerialisation and electronic archiving at the Ecole des Mines in Paris.