Ross McInnes

"After graduating from Oxford, Ross McInnes started his career with Kleinwort Benson in London. From 1980 to 1989 he held several positions in the corporate finance arm of Continental Bank (which became part of Bank of America), working in London, Chicago and Paris. In 1989 he moved to the industrial sector by joining Eridania Beghin-Say. He was named chief financial officer of this company in 1991, and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 1999. The following year he moved to Thomson-CSF (now Thales) as Senior Vice President and CFO, playing a major role in the company’s transformation. In 2005 he moved to PPR as senior vice president for finance and strategy, before joining the Supervisory Board of Générale de Santé in 2006. On request from this Board he served as interim Chairman of the Management Board from March to June 2007.

"From then until this latest appointment, Ross McInnes was Vice Chairman of Macquarie Capital Europe, a company specialized in infrastructure investments."

• Director, Safran