Palexpo’s Board of Directors and Committees
At Palexpo, governance holds a central place in ensuring transparent, responsible and forward-looking management.
Governance
Throughout the year, the Board of Directors, the committees and the management team worked closely together to ensure decision-making that is consistent and true to our values. This dynamic enables us to remain agile, support our ongoing transformations and meet our clients’ expectations in a constantly changing environment.
The Board of Directors, the company’s highest governing body, ensures that Palexpo SA’s mission is upheld. It approves the strategy and the five-year business plan, oversees the overall functioning of the organisation and ensures the quality of the accounts. It is composed of four members. The Executive Management, chaired by the Chief Executive Officer, comprises four directors.
Board of Directors
François Longchamp
President
Claudine Amstein
Member
Bénédicte Montant
Member
William Morris
Member
Executive Management
Claude Membrez
Chief Executive Officer
Manuel Garcia
Director of Technology and Finance
Christine Heilmann Sandoz
Director of Customer Experience
Carola Oeuvray
Director of Human Resources
Steve Mange
Director of Operations
Committees
To ensure a genuinely cross-functional perspective and involve all teams, thematic committees have been put in place. They bring together employees from different functions and levels of seniority, meet several times a year, and steer projects as well as objectives defined on an annual basis.
Some committees are also created on an ad hoc basis to address specific needs as they arise. Once their mission has been fulfilled, they are dissolved. For example, this was the case with the Quality Committee, later replaced by the ISO 9001 Committee, as well as the committee dedicated to event hybridisation during the COVID period.
Sustainable development
Strengthen the momentum of continuous improvement in sustainable development, consolidate QRSE governance, modernise energy infrastructure, expand renewable energy production, and enhance communication around its commitments and actions.
Image
Develop the institutional strategy, ensure operational monitoring and incident management, review sponsorship and patronage requests, and anticipate the communication actions required to enhance the institution’s profile.
Infrastructures
Define the institutional strategy, ensure close monitoring of activities and risks, oversee partnerships (sponsorship and patronage), and roll out proactive communication in support of the company’s image and positioning.
MSST
Drive continuous improvement by assessing the objectives achieved, analysing workplace checks and incidents, setting priorities and resources for the following period, and ensuring, at the level of each department, that risks are monitored and preventive measures remain appropriate.
GDPR
Develop the institutional strategy, ensure close monitoring of activities and risks, decide on partnerships (sponsorship and patronage), and roll out proactive communication in support of positioning and reputation.
Artificial intelligence
Build an internal dynamic around AI by launching a community of “super-users”, organising thematic workshops for employees, and introducing a monthly “AI Tip” section in the internal newsletter.
ISO 9001
Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 by monitoring the application and updating of quality procedures, drive continuous improvement through the analysis of audits and feedback, and optimise process performance through the monitoring of key indicators and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
Pricing and services
Develop the institutional strategy, ensure close monitoring of activities and risks, decide on partnerships, and roll out proactive communication aimed at strengthening the company’s reputation and positioning.
Regulations
Develop and steer the institutional strategy, ensure continuous monitoring of activities and incident management, review sponsorship and patronage requests, and anticipate the communication actions that help strengthen image and positioning.
Congress task force
Reposition the congress offering to strengthen performance and event recurrence, optimise the internal organisation, and ensure the achievement of the financial objectives set out in the 2024–2027 business plan.
