Renault Sa Unsp/Adr (RNLSY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello, everyone. We are pleased to welcome you for our Renault Group H1 results. These results are very special for us as it is the first day of our CEO, François Provost. That's why we have the pleasure to be here with all the team, our chairman, Jean-Dominique Senard, François Provost, our brand new CEO, This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session and I'm now happy to turn over to Jean-Dominique Sennard. Good morning everybody. Thank you for being all with us. It's a special day, of course, today, and for me it's an extremely strong pleasure to introduce our new CEO, François Prevost. As you probably know, we went through a very intense and comprehensive selection process. Under the leadership of the Governance and Compensation Committee, led by Pierre Fleuriot, With the help of an enlarged jury, I would say, compiled with the chairman and chairwoman of the different committees of the board, we were able to work, I would say, quite swiftly during more than a small month to achieve what is, I think, a very strong result for the group. We conducted that process, I think, very professionally. Hearing, of course, external candidates and internal candidates. And I have to say that the group was lucky enough to have inside very strong internal candidates. And our choice came to François Fleuriot. During that period, with the help of Duncan here, CFO, I was happy to work closely with the team and make sure that this short transition period would be as swift, quiet, and peaceful, I would say, as could be, which has been the case. And I have to say that I'm extremely grateful for the professionalism of the team during that period. So, of course, I could give you a list of skills that are needed for a CEO to achieve his job. I will avoid that. But let me tell me and ...