Executive Committee members
Elisabeth Carpentier
Group Executive Vice President and
Chief Human Resources Officer
(Human Resources and Internal Communications)
Executive Committee Member
Elisabeth Carpentier has been the Chief Human Resources Officer and an Executive Committee member since 1998 for Sodexo, which today employs 380,000 people and is the seventh largest employer in Europe. Since September 2008, Elisabeth Carpentier also has been responsible for the Group's Internal Communications.
Holder of a Master of Law degree and a postgraduate diploma in Human Resources Management (CIFFOP), Elisabeth Carpentier joined Sodexo in 1981 as Director of Recruitment and Employment for the Remote Sites segment. She successively held the posts of Director of International Human Resources and Human Resources Director, France.
In 1992, she participated actively in the creation of the Sodexo Management Institute (SMI), a multicultural and international crossroads for meetings, exchanges and sharing, to contribute to the continuous development of the Group's leaders.
Between 1992 and 1998, with the acquisition of Gardner Merchant in the UK, Partena in Sweden and Marriott Management Services in the U.S., the Group's revenues multiplied by five and its employees by 4.5. In this context, Elisabeth Carpentier took on the challenge of integrating executives from the acquired companies. The programs developed within the Sodexo Management Institute made it possible to reinforce a common culture, build a shared managerial vision and capitalize on the knowledge of different countries and activities.
With the goal of motivating and retaining Sodexo employees, she was involved in the April 2001 launch of the company's first International Savings Plan, which opened share ownership to Sodexo employees.
In 2009, to pursue the objective of making Sodexo a benchmark employer in services that improve Quality of Life, Elisabeth Carpentier formalized a framework of action - Sodexo's Employer Offer - aligned with employee expectations and the company's business growth objectives. Through its promise, "Your future, so sodexo,” the Group makes commitments to employees at five key moments in their careers: recruiting, welcoming, living, growing and rewarding.
Elisabeth Carpentier is a member of Sodexo Women's International Forum for Talent (SWIFt), a council of 20 women leaders of Sodexo responsible for proposing tangible actions to accelerate the representation of women in the Group's Top 300. She also is a member of the HR50, an international group of HR directors within the peers' network of World 50 Inc.
Born in 1954, Elizabeth Carpentier is married with two children.
