Appointment notice - Henri Poupart-Lafarge - Nicolas
Tissot

Henri Poupart-Lafarge, Chief Financial Officer
of Alstom and member of the Executive Committee, will be
appointed Executive Vice President and President of the new
Sector that will regroup the electricity transmission activities
at the closing of the Areva T&D acquisition. In his new role,
Henri Poupart-Lafarge will remain a member of the Executive
Committee and will report to Patrick Kron, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Alstom.

Nicolas Tissot will join the company on 17 May,
2010, as Chief Financial Officer of Alstom replacing Henri
Poupart-Lafarge. He will be a member of the Executive Committee
and will report to Patrick Kron. Nicolas Tissot is currently
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GDF-Suezs Global Gas
& LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) business. Alstoms
Executive Committee, presided by the Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Patrick Kron, will thus comprise Philippe Joubert,
Executive Vice President and President of the Power Sector;
Philippe Mellier, Executive Vice President and President of the
Transport Sector; Henri Poupart-Lafarge, Executive Vice President
and President of the new Sector that will regroup the electricity
transmission activities; Patrick Dubert, Senior Vice President
Human Resources; and Nicolas Tissot, Chief Financial Officer.

Patrick Kron

Chairman & CEO

Profiles


Henri Poupart-Lafarge, 40, is a graduate of
Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et
Chaussées and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
He started his career in 1992 at the World Bank in Washington,
D.C., before joining the French Ministry of Economy and Finance
in 1994 at the Treasury Department, and then as Advisor to the
Minister of Economy and Finance. He joined Alstom in 1998 where
he was successively Head of Investor Relations, Management
Control, and in 2000, Financial Officer of the Transmission
& Distribution Sector which was sold in 2004. Since then,
he has been Chief Financial Officer of Alstom.

Nicolas Tissot, 43, is a graduate of HEC,
Ecole Nationale dAdministration and a Finance Inspector.
started his career at the Ministry of Economy, Finance and
Industry (1995-1999), and then joined Suez, where he first
worked in the Finance Control Department after which he was
appointed Head of Group business control (2000-2003). Then he
was subsequently appointed Chief Financial Officer and
Executive VP Suez Energy International (2003-2005), Chief
Financial Officer of Electrabel in 2005, and since 2009, Deputy
Chief Executive Officer of GDF-Suezs Global Gas &
LNG business.