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If it is a function in which the feminization still has progress to make, it is the financial function. The circle of the great paymaster of the CAC 40 would look like to be mistaken at some English gentlemen club, was the presence among all these gentlemen of Fabienne Lecorvaisier. Since nearly four years, the only woman to perform the duties of Chief Financial Officer of one of the first 40 capitalizations of the Centre of Paris, this is it. Yesterday to finance of Essilor, she comes to forty-six years, to take charge of Air Liquide, a group four times. In full stock market storm, this change of House has no lack of courage. But the defector from the world leader in ophthalmic lenses is what it is called a woman of character, who is not afraid to question when she feels threatened by the routine, known to need and love to be there where would not expected it. An art of the opposite shows including this a little cheeky fun with it in fun season his remarks from the franglais compassé of most of her male peers.

Bonds in the airport

Need to hear it, for example, tell "this moment of happiness" that was the entrance to Essilor in the CAC 40, early 2005. Fabienne Lecorvaisier fell that day one of his many visits to the Japan, where she was the joint-venture with Nikon. It is 4 o'clock in the morning when, just landed at the airport Charles de Gaulle, the businesswoman turns on his laptop which Messaging starts frantically ringing. Breath of anguish to the idea that something happened perhaps in one of his two girls, now aged eight and 13 years. But no, all these messages cascading warn it simply that group was in the night its entry into the Holy of the Holy Fellowship. "You had to see me, I was alone in the hall of the airport of bonds."

Recognition of the work of the teams, this dedication also marked the culmination of a very beautiful stock route, which will continue the following years (at least to the beginning of 2008). An even more emotional outcome for Fabienne Lecorvaisier, arrived in the company in September 1993, at a time when it was "still a little as a mosaic of SMEs", she has seen turn over these years to be finally first in the world in its sector. In turn Director of development, Director, financial and computer subsidiary American it keeps a wonderful souvenir of these past two years in New York , Deputy Financial Director and then, from January 2001, Chief Financial Officer, it will be, in its various functions, largely contributed to this rise. Civil engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, the daughter of physician born in Angers and passed by Ginette learned his trade of financial to Société Générale and the Bank du Louvre, subsidiary of the Taittinger group. A vocation, the Bank Step precisely. It was entered without being able to do what she wanted, i.e. Chief of construction. "I didn't have the sufficient height-weight ratio, it seems," remembers it, amused. "Then, since it refused me the BTP, I went in what appeared to me the most distant of the BTP.". The art of the opposite, already.