Rexel SA (Paris): The company’s has appointed Pier Luigi Sigismondi as a member of its supervisory board. He replaces Françoise Gri, who has stepped down from the supervisory board to reduce her number of directorships.
Sigismondi has been a member of Unilever’s executive board and has served as the company’s chief supply chain officer since 2009. Prior to that he worked for Nestlé SA, where he was V.P. of corporate operations strategies, based in Switzerland, in charge of industrial strategies of the group worldwide as well as management of global cost improvement programs before moving to Nestlé Mexico in 2005 as V.P. of operations and R&D. He started his career in consulting, first with Booz Allen & Hamilton and later with AT Kearney. An Italian national, he holds a masters degree in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.