ENGIE : Appointment

Bill Collins joins ENGIE's Finance department as special advisor to Judith Hartmann, Chief Financial Officer and Group Executive Vice-President in charge of the North America and UK BUs.

In this position, Bill will be responsible, among other things, for implementing and steering the cash improvement plan throughout ENGIE. Bill will be appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Deputy CFO) in charge of the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) department, when Thierry Kalfon, Deputy CFO in charge of EPM will move to another senior executive position within the Group.

Aged 50, Bill Collins holds bachelor's degrees in finance, economics and accounting, and a master's degree in finance from the University of Illinois. He also holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Illinois.

He has been Group controller for AKZO NOBEL since September 2017 in Amsterdam after two years as CFO of one of their business lines. Previously, Bill spent more than 10 years working for Schneider Electric and 8 years at Eaton Corporation in various financial positions, including CFO of business units, financial planning and analysis director and financial and operational controller. Throughout his career, he has worked in Japan, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands and in the U.S.

About ENGIE

We are a global energy and services group, focused on three core activities: low-carbon power generation, mainly based on natural gas and renewable energy, global networks and customer solutions. Driven by our ambition to contribute to a harmonious progress, we take up major global challenges such as the fight against global warming, access to energy to all, or mobility, and offer our residential customers, businesses and communities energy production solutions and services that reconcile individual and collective interests. Our integrated - low-carbon, high-performing and sustainable - offers are based on digital technologies. Beyond energy, they facilitate the development of new uses and promote new ways of living and working. Our ambition is conveyed by each of our 150,000 employees in 70 countries. Together with our customers and partners, they form a community of imaginative builders who invent and build today solutions for tomorrow. 2017 turnover: 65 billion Euros. Listed in Paris and Brussels (ENGI), the Group is represented in the main financial (CAC 40, BEL 20, Euro STOXX 50, STOXX Europe 600, MSCI Europe, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, Euro STOXX Utilities, STOXX Europe 600 Utilities) and extra-financial indices (DJSI World, DJSI Europe and Euronext Vigeo Eiris - World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120, France 20, CAC 40 Governance). To learn more: www.engie.com