Laurent Guillot, Managing Director of Orpea since Friday, will also be suggested as a new administrator at the General Assembly of July 28, announced the private group of retirement homes.
Le Monde with AFP
Guillaume Pepy, former CEO of the SNCF, “will be proposed to ensure the chairmanship of the new board of directors” of Orpea, announced, Sunday evening July 3, the private group of retirement homes, in turmoil since The publication at the beginning of 2022 of the Les Fossoyeurs’ investigating book.
“A deep renewal of the board of directors will be offered at the next general meeting”, with the arrival of five new independent administrators, including Guillaume Pepy, specifies Orpea in a press release. If it is elected, the former leader of the SNCF “will be proposed” to the presidency of the new board of directors.
The appointments as independent administrators of Guillaume Pepy, currently president of Initiative France, of Isabelle Calvez, director of human resources of the Veolia group, of John Glen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of BIC SA until May, And David Hale, Managing Director of Guerbet Group, will be subject to the vote of shareholders at the general assembly on July 28.
Laurent Guillot proposed as new administrator
Laurent Guillot, who has carried out a large part of his career at Saint-Gobain and managing director of Orpea since Friday, will also be offered as a new administrator at this general meeting, adds Orpea.
Philippe Charrier, who chaired the board of directors before the scandal broke out and who “provisionally assured the general management of Orpea from February to June 2022”, “chose to put an end to his mandate to ‘Administrator at the end of the next assembly “.
The Orpea group, French giant of retirement homes and private clinics, has been immersed in turmoil since the publication, in January, of a survey book, the gravediggers, which documents the ill-treatment inflicted on residents, accounting and administrative fraud and questionable human resources practices.
Following a report that the government issued justice at the end of March, a preliminary investigation was opened in April for institutional mistreatment and financial offenses.
Investigators also work on more than forty complaints, the majority of whom were filed in a grouped manner in early April by families of Ehpad residents, who accuse Orpea of ”endangerment of life of others “and” manslaughter “.