GOVERNANCE – EXECUTIVE TEAM AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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and board of directors
SERGE CRASNIANSKI
CEO & Deputy Chairman
CHRISTIAN AUTIÉ
COO
TANIA CRASNIANSKI
Executive Director & Corporate Legal
Stéphane Gibon
CFO & CIO
Charlotte Delbès
Chief Marketing Officer
SIR JOHN LEWIS OBE
Non-executive Chairman
SIR JOHN LEWIS OBE
Non-executive Chairman
Joined the Board in 2008 and appointed Chairman in 2010. Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Until early 2019, a consultant to Eversheds Sutherland LLP (as now is), and currently a Director of AIM market company, Prime People plc, as well as various private companies. Previously a practising Solicitor and Partner in Lewis, Lewis & Co – which became part of Eversheds Sutherland LLP (as now is) after a series of mergers.
Previously served as Chairman of Cliveden plc and Principal Hotels plc and as Vice Chairman of John D Wood & Co plc and Pubmaster Group Ltd.
SERGE CRASNIANSKI
CEO & Deputy Chairman
Serge Crasnianski
CEO & DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
Appointed to the Board in 2009. Previously served on the Board from 1990 to 2007; until 1994 as a Non-executive Director, from 1994 as an Executive Director and as Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2007. Founded KIS in 1963.
VLADIMIR CRASNEANSCKI
Executive Director
Vladimir CRASNEANSCKI
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Appointed to the Board in June 2025. Mr Crasneanscki joined the Company in April 2022 as Head of Customer Development and was subsequently appointed Head of Commercial Operations. He was later appointed Managing Director, UK and Head of Investor Relations in January 2024. In his role as Executive Director, he will continue to be responsible for managing the business in the UK as well as investor relations. Before joining ME Group, he worked at Deecon Consulting. Mr Crasneanscki has an MSc in Finance and Management from University College London.
JEAN-MARC Janailhac
Executive Director
Jean-Marc Janailhac
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Joined the Board in 2019. Designated executive director in July 2020, and appointed chairman of the newly formed Strategic Committee that is responsible for reviewing and implementing operational decisions across the Group.
Mr Janailhac has been a senior adviser of Macquarie Capital (Europe) Limited since 2016. He has been a Non-executive Director of Athena Investments A/S, a Danish company dedicated to renewable energy (wind and solar) listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and included in the OMX Copenhagen Small Cap Index, since 2010.
TANIA CRASNIANSKI
Executive Director & Corporate Legal
Tania Crasnianski
Executive Director & Corporate Legal
Has been an independent legal adviser for the past seven years and prior to that held the role of Head of Global Investments at Stratford Capital between 2006-2014. Ms Crasnianski spent 12 years in the legal field; having worked in that time as a Criminal Lawyer for SCP Versini-Campinchi & Associés, Paris. Ms Crasnianski joined the Group on 1 June 2020 as head of legal and general secretary, and shortly thereafter took over the supervision of the Group’s entities in Germany and Austria.
Françoise Coutaz-Replan
Non-executive Director
Francoise Coutaz-Replan
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Appointed to the Board in 2009. Retired from her
executive role as Group Finance
Director on 27 August 2015, continuing as a Nonexecutive Director. Joined KIS in 1991.
Appointed to the Audit Committee on 20 October 2016.
RENE PROGLIO
Non-executive Director
Rene Proglio
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Worked at Morgan Stanley for 17 years and during that time he held senior roles,
including as Managing Director (2004-2007) and as Head of Investment Banking
(2008-2010). Before this, he was a Partner at
Ernst & Young.
GREGORY BARKER, LORD BARKER OF BATTLE
Non-executive Director
Gregory Barker, Lord Barker of Battle
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Appointed to the Board in 2025. Lord Barker was educated at the University of London and London Business School and began his career as an equity analyst. He is currently Chairman of the EV Network, a leading UK developer and operator of ultra-fast EV charging hubs. He also serves on the boards of GlassView, the New York based neuro-media and marketing business, the Clean Growth Leadership Network and chairs the advisory board of PowerHive, the East African clean energy and e-mobility business.
Lord Barker was a member of the House of Commons for 15 years and served in the Cameron Government as both Energy & Climate Change Minister and Minister for Business Engagement with India. Other former roles include chair of the London Sustainable Development Commission, Executive Chairman of En+ Group, the global aluminium and hydro-power business, Chairman of Quercus, the European renewable energy asset manager and an Operating Advisor for Pegasus Capital Advisors in New York.
DEL MANSI
Company Secretary
Del Mansi
COMPANY SECRETARY
Joined the Group in 2006. A qualified solicitor. Served as interim Company Secretary from April to July 2008. Appointed Group General Counsel in 2009, a role retained upon being appointed Company Secretary in May 2013.
The Board has delegated various matters to committees.
These committees of the Board meet regularly (the Nomination committee meets as required). The committees deal with specific aspects of the management of the Company. The Board has delegated authority to the committees and they have defined terms of reference under the Company documents section of this website.
Decision-making relating to operational matters is delegated to the senior management. Board and committee papers are circulated in advance of each meeting and are supplemented by reports and presentations to ensure that Board members are kept fully informed. Regular communication between the directors also takes place outside the formal forum of Board and committee meetings.
The committee’s primarily areas of focus are the supervision of internal and external audit processes, ensuring the business’ internal framework of controls is sufficiently adequate to protect shareholder investment, and that the presentation of the financial statements taken as a whole, are fair, balanced and understandable, and give the information necessary for shareholders to assess the Group’s position and performance, business model and strategy.
Membership
JEAN-MARCEL DENIS
Non-executive Director
(Committee Chairman)
Sir John Lewis OBE
Non-executive Chairman
Emmanuel Olympitis
Non-executive Director
Françoise Coutaz-Replan
Non-executive Director
René Proglio
Non-executive Director
Terms of reference of the Audit Committee of the Board of Photo-Me International PLC
The committee makes recommendations to the full Board in respect of the Group’s remuneration policy. The committee also keeps under review the remuneration of the Chairman and the Group’s Executive Directors, to ensure that they are rewarded fairly for their contribution and it makes awards under the Executive Share Option Scheme.
Membership
Emmanuel Olympitis
Non-executive Director (Committee Chairman)
Sir John Lewis OBE
Non-executive Chairman
JEAN-MARCEL DENIS
Non-executive Director
Terms of reference of the Remuneration Committee of the Board of Photo-Me International PLC
The committee, which meets as required, makes recommendations to the Board on the appointment of new directors. The Nomination committee is committed to the pursuit of diversity, including gender diversity, throughout the business.
Membership
Sir John Lewis OBE
Non-executive Chairman (Committee Chairman)
EMMANUEL OLYMPITIS
Non-executive Director
JEAN-MARCEL DENIS
Non-executive Director
Terms of reference of the Nomination Committee of the Board of Photo-Me International PLC
