Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT)
Effective July 15, 2009, Bertrand de La Noue is appointed
Vice-President, Investor Relations, succeeding Jérôme Schmitt.
Bertrand de La Noue had been President and Chief Executive
Officer of Total Holdings USA, parent company for Total's
activities in the United States, since 2004.
He started his carreer in Africa before joining the Group's
Downstream sector in 1985 in the United Kingdom. He then joined
Total Outre-Mer. In 1990, he was appointed Crude Oil Manager in
Tokyo.
He joined the Investor Relations team for the first time in
1993. He was then appointed General Manager-Information and
Planning of Total South Africa. In 1999, he became Chief Financial
Officer of Total France.
Bertrand de La Noue is 47 years old. He is a graduate of French
Business School HEC Paris and of the Executive Training Program
(ETP) of the European Union in Japan.
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