Kindred Group has expanded its Board of Directors with the addition of personnel from Groupe Française des Jeux to replace recent resignations.
The new members are joining following FDJ completing its acquisition of Kindred at the beginning of the month in a nearly €2.5bn transaction.
Pascal Chaffard, Edeline Minaire and Célia Vérot have been elected as new Directors upon the proposal of FDJ, replacing those who have resigned, which includes former Chair Evert Carlsson and the Directors of James H Gemmel, Cédric Boireau, Andrew McCue, Jonas Jansson and Kenneth Shea.
Currently the Executive Vice-President Finance, Performance and Strategy, Chaffard joined FDJ in 1994 and has held the positions of Head of Strategy and Transformation, Product Marketing Director and Financial Planning and Analysis Director.
Minaire joined FDJ in 2016, becoming the operator’s Finance Director three years later. She has also held the position of Director of Accounting and Treasury, in addition to roles at Lafarge and Ernst & Young before joining the operator.
Vérot has been FDJ’s Chief Regulation Officer since May 2024. Before joining the operator, she spent more than 10 years at the French Conseil d’Etat, holding several jurisdictional positions, as well as the position of Deputy Secretary General and Advisor at the French Prime Minister’s Office in the civil service.
She has also worked at the French multinational company Veolia Water as Vice President of Veolia Water Japan, as well as CEO at the non-profit organisation Fondation du Patrimoine during the last seven years.
With these changes, Kindred’s Board of Directors now consists of Chaffard, Minaire and Vérot, as well as current board directors Heidi Skogster and Martin Randel.
All terms of office of the newly elected members will expire when Kindred’s next annual general meeting takes place in 2025, with Chaffard elected as Chair.
Skogster and Randel will remain as Directors too until their terms expire next year at the company’s annual general meeting.
In addition, Kindred’s Audit and Remuneration Committees have been named. The Audit Committee is comprised of Skogster as Chair, Randel and Minaire. Meanwhile, the Remuneration Committee consists of Chaffard as Chair, Randel and Skogster.