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Board of Directors

  • André Harari, 
    Chairman
  • Daniel Harari, 
    CEO 
  • Hervé Debache 
  • Louis Faurre 

Audit Committee

  • Hervé Debache, 
    Chairman
  • Louis Faurre
  • André Harari 

Compensation Committee

  • Louis Faurre, 
    Chairman
  • Hervé Debache
  • André Harari 

Strategic Committee

  • André Harari, 
    Chairman
  • Hervé Debache 
  • Louis Faurre  

Board of directors

André Harari

André Harari, 64, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lectra since May 3, 2002. He had been Vice Chairman of Lectra's Board of Directors since 1991, and Vice Chairman and Senior Vice President since 1998. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Lectra from 1978 to 1990, Compagnie Financière du Scribe having been a minority stockholder of Lectra since its early stage, before taking control of it at the end of 1990. André Harari holds no outside directorships.

André Harari was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie Financière du Scribe (Paris, France), a venture capital firm specializing in technology companies, which he founded in 1975. Together with his brother Daniel Harari, he was the main stockholder in Compagnie Financière du Scribe until its merger with Lectra on April 30, 1998. He began his career with the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (Paris, 1970-1975).

André Harari is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique (Paris). He also holds a doctorate in management science from the University of Paris-Dauphine.


Daniel Harari

Daniel Harari, 53, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Lectra since May 3, 2002. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lectra from 1991, following its takeover by Compagnie Financière du Scribe at the end of 1990. He holds no directorships outside the company and its subsidiaries.

Daniel Harari has been a director (since 1981) and Chief Executive Officer (since 1986) of Compagnie Financière du Scribe, a venture capital firm specializing in technology companies founded by his brother André Harari, of which they were the main stockholders until its merger with Lectra on April 30, 1998. He began his career as Vice President of la Société d'Etudes et de Gestion Financière Meeschaert, an asset management company (Paris, 1980-1983). He was then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of La Solution Informatique (1984-1990), a PC distribution and services company, and of Interleaf France (1986-1989), a subsidiary of the U.S. software publisher, both of which he founded in Paris, France.

Daniel Harari is a graduate of the École Polytechnique (Paris) and the Institut Supérieur des Affaires (Paris, coupled with the second year of the Stanford Business School MBA program, Palo Alto, CA, United States).


Hervé Debache

Hervé Debache, 62, Director of Lectra since 1998.

Hervé Debache is a director and Executive Vice President of AWF (Paris), which specializes in financial engineering, mergers and acquisitions and private equity financing since it merged in 2002 with Tertiaire Développement (Paris) of which he was the founder and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1991. He is also a director of Cyber Capital (Paris), a venture capital company specializing in audiovisual and media companies.

Hervé Debache began his career as an auditor and consultant at Price Waterhouse (Paris, 1967-1981) before joining SEMA Group as Chief Operating Officer of its consulting subsidiary (1982-1988). He then co-founded Compagnie Financière JP Elkan, a French investment bank specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private equity finance, of which he was Chief Operating Officer.

Hervé Debache is a graduate of École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Paris) and a French Certified Public Accountant, as well as a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s International Teachers Program (Cambridge, Mass., United States).


Louis Faurre

Louis Faurre, 74, Director of Lectra since 1996. He holds no outside directorships.
Now retired, Louis Faurre was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sagem-Sat-Service (1983-1995, Paris), which specializes in IT and office automation equipment. He began his career as an engineer at Sagem (1964-1970, Paris), becoming Senior Vice Preside, IT division (1970-1983). Louis Faurre was a director of Compagnie Financière du Scribe (since 1981) until its merger with Lectra on April 30, 1998.

Louis Faurre is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris).


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