Orpea: Guillaume Pepy, former CEO of the SNCF, proposed to head the board of directors – Le Monde

Guillaume Pepy, former CEO of the SNCF, “will be proposed to chair the new board of directors” of Orpea, announced, Sunday evening July 3, the private group of retirement homes, in turmoil since the publication in the beginning of 2022 of the book-investigation Les Fossoyeurs. “A profound renewal of the board of directors will be proposed at the next general meeting”, with the arrival of five new independent directors, including Guillaume Pepy, specifies Orpea in a press release. If elected, the former leader of the SNCF “will be proposed” to the presidency of the new board of directors. The appointments as independent directors of Guillaume Pepy, currently chairman of Initiative France, of Isabelle Calvez, human resources director of the Veolia Group, of John Glen, chairman of the board of directors of Bic SA until May, and David Hale , CEO of Guerbet Group, will be submitted to the vote of the shareholders at the general meeting on July 28. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers For Orpea, after the Ehpad scandal, the time for reckoning Laurent Guillot proposed as new administrator Laurent Guillot, who has spent a large part of his career at Saint-Gobain and CEO of Orpea since Friday, will also be proposed as a new director at this general meeting, adds Orpea. Philippe Charrier, who chaired the board of directors before the scandal broke and who “provisionally assumed the general management of Orpea from February to June 2022”, “chosen to put an end to his mandate as director at the outcome of the next meeting. Read also Article reserved for our Ehpad subscribers: Orpea changes boss, after the revelations of a book-investigation The Orpea group, French giant of retirement homes and private clinics, has been plunged into turmoil since the publication, in January, an investigative book, Les Fossoyeurs, which documents the mistreatment of residents, accounting and administrative fraud and questionable human resources practices. Following a report that the government issued to justice at the end of March, a preliminary investigation was opened in April for institutional mistreatment and financial crimes. Investigators are also working on more than forty complaints, the majority of which were filed collectively in early April by families of nursing home residents, who accuse Orpea of ​​”endangering the lives of others and “manslaughter”. Extracts from the book “Les Fossoyeurs”: Article reserved for our subscribers “Already, there was this terrible smell of piss, as soon as you entered”: extracts from “Les Fossoyeurs”, an investigation into the business of old age Le Monde with AFP