Alstom Transport reorganises its management
structure

Gérard Blanc, 60, Chief Operating Officer
and Senior Vice-President of Operations, has decided to
exercise his right to retire as of 31 October 2008. In recent
years, Gérard Blanc successfully carried out the
deep-seated industrial and technical restructuring of Alstom
Transport. After his departure, he will continue to act as a
special adviser to Philippe Mellier.

Following the departure of Gérard Blanc, Philippe
Mellier has decided to reorganise operations into two separate
groups in order to better adapt the Transport Sector to ongoing
changes in the rail market.

Thierry Best, 49, has been appointed Senior
Vice-President of Operations for Rolling Stock &
Components. Thierry Best was formerly Senior Vice-President of
Project Management.

Emilio Gallocchio, 60, has been appointed
Senior Vice-President of Operations for Signalling, Maintenance
and Services, and Integrated and Global Transport Solutions.
Emilio Gallocchio was previously Senior Vice-President for
Southern Europe.

These appointments will be effective from 1 November
2008.

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In addition,
Alberto Pedrosa, 54, has been appointed Senior
Vice-President of Project Management, with effect from 1
October 2008, replacing Thierry Best. Alberto Pedrosa was
previously Senior Vice-President of Rolling Stock, reporting to
Gérard Blanc.

Marc Chatelard, 58, has been appointed Senior
Vice-President for the Southern Europe Region, with effect from
1 October 2008, replacing Emilio Gallochio. Marc Châtelard
was previously Senior Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific
Region.

Dominique Pouliquen, 49, has been appointed
Senior Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific Region, with effect
from 1 January 2009, replacing Marc Châtelard. He was
previously Senior Vice-President of Train Life Solutions; the
new head will be appointed at a later date.

Thierry Best, Emilio Gallocchio, Alberto Pedrosa, Marc
Chatelard and Dominique Pouliquen report to Philippe Mellier,
President of Alstom Transport.

Gérard Blanc is a graduate of the Ecole
Supérieure dElectricité and has a doctorate
in physics. After being Managing Director of Mors from 1987
to 1993, he moved to Gec Alsthom where he managed first the
rail and then the signalling business lines. In February
2000, he became Deputy Vice-President of Alstom Transport,
responsible for equipment, locomotives, information solutions
and the technology, quality, procurement and strategy
functions. In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Chief Operating
Officer of Alstom Transport and Senior Vice-President of
Alstom Technologies.

Thierry Best graduated from the Institut
d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and the Ecole Nationale
d'Administration. He began his career at the Ministry of
Finance in the Department of Foreign Economic Relations and
was successively Commercial Advisor in the French Embassies
in Madrid (1989), Buenos Aires (1991) and London (1995). He
joined Alstom Transport in 1998 as Sales Manager for Israel,
Egypt and South Africa. In 1999, he became Senior
Vice-President in China in 2003, Vice-President of the metro
systems product line in 2004, and Vice-President for France.
In 2007, Thierry was named Vice-President of Project
Management with Alstom Transport.

Emilio Gallocchio began his career in 1971
at Wabco Westinghouse and was appointed Sales Manager in
1985. In 1988, after Westinghouse Wabco was acquired by
Ansaldo, he became Sales Manager for Ansaldo Trasporti. In
1994, he joined Sasib as CEO of International Operations and
President of Sasibs Chinese branch. In 1998, when
Alstom acquired Sasib, he was appointed Director of Export
Sales at Alstom Signalling in Paris. In 1999, he became
Vice-President of Alstom Signalling in Italy and then Chief
Executive Office and President of Alstom Transport Italy. In
2006, he became Senior Vice-President for the Southern Europe
Region.

Marc Chatelard is an engineer educated at
the Lausanne Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale and has
an MBA from the Centre for Business Training. He began his
career at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 1973 as Chief
Engineer, before joining Framatome ANP until 1990, followed
by Transmanche Link (the builder of the Channel Tunnel) and
Spie Batignolles. He joined Alstom Transport in 1997 as
Director of TGV Systems Projects and headed TGV projects in
Taiwan and South Korea. After being President of Alstom's
subsidiaries in South Korea from 2000 to 2004, he became
Senior Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific region in
2003.

Dominique Pouliquen has a Masters in
economics and is a graduate of the Paris Institut d'Etudes
Politiques (Sciences Po). After working as a financial
analyst and consultant with responsibilities for sales and
development in the IT sector, he joined Alstom Transport in
1996. He was successively head of information systems for
sales and marketing, Regional Manager in Asia for service
activities, and International Marketing Director. In 2003, he
was appointed Senior Vice-President of Products and Strategy,
and Senior Vice-President of Maintenance and Services in
2005.

Alberto Pedrosa has a diploma from
CEDEP/INSEAD. He began his career in 1976 at Rhodia in Brazil
as an engineer in the research department. In 1985, he joined
Rhône-Poulenc, where he occupied several director's
posts for chemical activities, before being named
Vice-President of worldwide pharmaceutical industrial
operations of Rhône-Poulenc Rorer. From 1999 till 2006,
he was President of Rhodia polyamide Latin America, Executive
Vice President of the Group Rhodia, in charge of purchases,
energy and supply chain (2002 ), then General manager of
Rhodia Polyamide (2003). In 2006, he joined Alstom transport
as Senior Vice-President of Rolling Stock Operations.

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