Anne
Bouverot to Join Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company Board
of Directors
TORONTO, Jan. 4, 2021 -- The Thomson Reuters Founders
Share Company today announced that it has appointed Anne Bouverot to its Board of Directors.
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The Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company acts as a guardian of
the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Created during World War II
in 1941, the Trust Principles are designed to preserve Thomson
Reuters independence, integrity and freedom from bias in the
gathering and dissemination of information and news. The new
appointment takes immediate effect.
Anne Bouverot is Chairperson of
the Board of Technicolor, a world leader in visual effects and
animation services and supplier of broadband communication
gateways. She is also co-founder and chair of Fondation Abeona
which studies social impacts of artificial intelligence and data.
Ms. Bouverot previously was Chair and CEO of Morpho, a world leader
in security and identity solutions, employing more than 8,600
people in 55 countries. Prior to Morpho, she spent four years
as Director General of GSMA, the international association of
mobile network operators. She began her career as IT project
manager with Telmex in Mexico
before spending over 15 years with Orange in various positions. Ms.
Bouverot is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris in mathematics and holds both a Masters
in telecommunications engineering and a PhD in artificial
intelligence. She has received the awards of Chevalier de l'Ordre
National du Mérite and Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.
Kim Williams, Chairman of the
Founders Share Company's Board, said, "On behalf of my fellow
directors I am delighted to welcome Anne
Bouverot to the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company board
and to have her serve as a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Trust
Principles. As an experienced commercial executive in a variety of
telecommunication and sophisticated technology roles she brings
keen intelligence, wide experience, clarity of thought and a
collegial manner which will be appreciated as part of the armoury
of balanced board skill sets necessary to inform our discussions,
purposefully."
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