Egide SA presented the composition of its new Board of Directors. The combined extraordinary and ordinary shareholders` meeting of the company held on July 7, 2014, approved the appointments of Mrs. Colette Lucas and Mr. Jean-Louis Malinge as directors for terms of six years. Colette Lucas holds a degree from ISEP, the graduate engineering school in information and communication technologies.

Founding Chair of Asymptotes Conseil, she is also responsible for relations and synergies with business for the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI). She has extensive technical and commercial experience in the international and French semiconductor market (having worked successively for Texas Instrument, ST and Atmel) along with wide-ranging expertise in human sciences (recruitment, managerial support and team performance). She is a member of the French Institute of Independent Directors (Institut Français des Administrateurs or IFA).

Jean-Louis Malinge is a graduate of the INSA Rennes engineering school as well as a holder of an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Boston. He has occupied successively different technical management responsibilities, first in France (Thomson CSF - Socapex, Amphénol and Corning) and subsequently in the United States where in 1995 he became Vice President for R&D of the photonic division of Corning and from 1998 to 2002 served as Vice President & General Manager for this division. In 2004 he became CEO of Kotura, a Californian startup operating in the field of silicon photonics, subsequently acquired in August 2013 by Mellanox Group.