Overview

Gender

female

Carole Piwnica is Director of NAXOS UK, a consulting firm advising private equity, since January 2008.

Previously, Carole Piwnica served as a director, from 1996 to July 2006, and Vice-Chairman of Governmental Affairs, from 2000 to 2006, of Tate & Lyle Plc, a European food and agricultural ingredients company.

She was a chairman of Amylum Group, a European food ingredient company and affiliate of Tate & Lyle Plc, from 1996 to 2000. From 1992 to 1996, Carole Piwnica held general management positions and board memberships in various other European food companies, including Cacao Barry and Vital Sogéviandes. Carole Piwnica was a member of the board of directors of Aviva plc, a British insurance company, from May 2003 to December 2011, a member of the Biotech Advisory Council of Monsanto from May 2006 to October 2009, a member of the board of directors of Dairy Crest from 2007 until 2010, and a member of the board of directors of Toepfer Gmbh from 1996 until 2010. In 2010, she was appointed as a member of the boards of Eutelsat (satellites, France) and Sanofi (pharmaceuticals, France).

Carole Piwnica holds a Law degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a Master of Laws degree from New York University. She has also been a member of the bar association of the state of New York, USA since 1985.