Sophie Boissard is Taking up Her Position as New Group’s Chief Executive Officer of Korian

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Korian (Paris:KORI), European leader of Ageing Well, announces that Mrs. Sophie Boissard assumes her duty as Group's Chief Executive Officer on this Tuesday, the 26th of January 2016.

She will implement the growth strategy of Korian. In particular, her objective will be to strengthen management structures and accelerate the roll-out of new offerings, while focusing the energy and skills of the teams on quality of service for residents and their families.

Mrs. Sophie Boissard is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. After having held various positions in the public sector, notably at the State Council, she joined the Executive Committee of the SNCF group in 2008. She successively created and headed the management and development activity of train stations (Gares & Connexions business unit), before taking her position of Executive Vice President, Business Strategy and Development and moving on as CEO of SNCF Immobilier, the branch in charge of developing the group’s real estate property and other holdings. During those years, she has demonstrated her ability in structuring new value-creating business groups, building partnerships and setting up and managing large teams and networks on multiple occasions.

ABOUT KORIAN

Korian, Europe’s leading Ageing Well specialist, founded in 2003, has the capacity to accommodate some 70,000 residents and patients in Europe (France, Germany, Italy and Belgium) and employs around 45,000 people. The Group manages almost 700 facilities in four business lines: nursing homes, post-acute and rehabilitation clinics, assisted living facilities and home-care services.

For more information, please visit the website: www.korian.com.

Korian is listed on Euronext Paris Compartment A and is included in the following indices: SBF 120, CAC Health Care, CAC Mid 60, CAC Mid & Small and MSCI Global Small Cap

Euronext ticker: KORI - ISIN: FR0010386334 – Reuters: KORI.PA – Bloomberg: KORI.FP

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