Nicolas Véron

Nicolas Veron has worked both in the private and
public sector and is now an independent consultant specialised
in financial information.

Veron, a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des
Mines in Paris, completed his studies in the early 90s by
spending a year in a Saint-Gobain subsidiary in Eastern
Germany and another year as a member of Rothschilds' mergers
& acquisitions team in Paris. He then joined the French
public service, where he served as an economic policy executive
in the northern city of Lille (1995-97) and then as corporate
advisor to Minister of Labour Martine Aubry (1997-2000).

In 2000, he became VP Business development and later CFO
of MultiMania, one of France's most prominent Internet start-ups,
and contributed to the success of its IPO, raising EUR 64m.
Later in 2000, MultiMania was purchased by the Lycos Europe
group and Veron subsequently became CFO and member of the
Board of Directors of Lycos France, which encompassed and
merged several acquisitions made in France in the same year.
In 2002, he left the Lycos group and founded ECIF (Etudes
et Conseil pour l'Information Financiere), a consultancy
business exclusively dedicated to financial information
issues. ECIF's customers are mainly French publicly-listed
companies.

In addition, Veron regularly publishes articles on financial
regulation and corporate governance in French periodicals
which include Le Monde, Les Echos, La Tribune and Commentaire.