Acting on the recommendation of its Remuneration and Appointments Committee, the CNP Assurances Board of Directors has appointed Marie-Aude Thépaut as Chief Executive Officer of the Group. She succeeds Stéphane Dedeyan, who was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of La Banque Postale on 18 October 2023. The Board of Directors wishes to express its heartfelt thanks to Stéphane Dedeyan for his exceptional contribution to the transformation of CNP Assurances.

Committed alongside shareholder La Banque Postale to creating a leader in bancassurance within the major public financial division, Stéphane Dedeyan oversaw the construction of a comprehensive insurer by finalising the merger with La Banque Postale and integrating La Banque Postale's insurance activities into CNP Assurances. The Board of Directors would like to pay tribute to his decisive action geared towards CNP Assurances' international and multi-partnership development. The Board of Directors is delighted to entrust general management of CNP Assurances to Marie-Aude Thépaut, previously director of the Group's Europe BU (Business Unit) excluding France.

She will be tasked with rolling out the ambitious strategic development project in all markets in France and abroad. Her innovative strategic and managerial vision will be an undeniable asset in driving Group's multi-partner, international and responsible model, benefiting partners and customers in all the regions in which operate. Marie-Aude Thépaut, 40, is a certified actuary and holds a Master's degree in mathematics (with a specialist option in actuarial methods) from the Euro-Institute of Actuarial Science (University of Bretagne Occidentale, 2006).

She joined CNP Assurances in 2006 as an actuary, before being appointed head of an actuarial department within the Technical Division in 2011. In 2014, she became head of the Insurance Risk Department within the Risk Management Division, before becoming head of the Subsidiary Supervision and Coordination Department in 2020. In 2021, she was appointed Head of Performance Management in the Finance Division before taking over as head of the new Europe BU (excluding France) on 1 June 2022 and becoming a member of the Executive Committee.

In so doing, she contributed to the international development of CNP Assurances by unifying and coordinating the European subsidiaries and branches (4 subsidiaries and 2 branches), negotiating strategic partnerships and developing the open model in Europe.