Nomination Vice-Chairman of the Board

01 July 2016

AOG is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has co-opted Arnaud Talabardon to the new position of Vice-Chairman of the Board, effective 1 July, 2016. Mr. Talabardon also remains Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of AOG.

Arnaud Talabardon joined AOG in 1996, as Deputy Group CFO. He was respectively CFO of the Trading Division (from 2002) and the Trading and Downstream Divisions (from 2004), before being appointed Group CFO in 2006.

“Over his 20 years with AOG, Arnaud has gained extensive and in-depth experience of all the Group’s activities and he will be a valuable addition to our Board,” stated AOG founder and Chairman, Jean Claude Gandur. 

Prior to joining AOG, Mr. Talabardon worked in finance in the oil trading industry, including at BNP Paribas Energy & Commodities in Geneva. He has a B.Sc. in International Management from MBA-IMIP in Paris, France, and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.

AOG’s Board of Directors is now composed of:
•    Jean Claude Gandur, Chairman,
•    Arnaud Talabardon, Vice-Chairman
•    François Jaclot
•    Frédérique Lorenceau
•    Peter Newman
•    Michael Norris