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Hugues THIBAULT, Chief Financial Officer

1. What are your main tasks at WPO?

I help a great team of finance professionals ensure the assets we manage on behalf of our partners are profitable and compliant.

2. Could you describe the Commercial Management Services of WPO?

We represent our client's interests. We handle everything financial and administrative on their behalf, with a variety of possible scopes. A full scope would include office management, accounting, invoicing, cash management, FP&A and coordination with the variety of partners in a renewable asset's orbit : banks, technicians, local authorities, landlords, tax firms and many others.

3. What makes the Commercial Management Services of WPO unique?

We have a wonderful team, capable of intervening at any stage of an asset's life cycle, and at any measure of depth. The quality of our services is quite unique and comes from :

• solid experience : we have been in the industry since it started so we've seen a lot of different setups and situations,
• the support and communication with our technical / engineering teams, which ground our practice in an operational context that no other financial services provider can rely on.

We're extremely good at anticipating and planning!

4. What do you like most about WPO?

Above anything, it's the culture : straightforward communication and no nonsense. I think this comes from being a team of highly qualified professionals, financial or technical, with many different and complementary backgrounds, who have learnt to work together seamlessly.

A strong background in finance

Hugues Thibault started in industrial FP&A (Atos, Albea) and retail (Hermès, Lanvin, Lacoste), where he held various CFO positions in the Americas.

He joined WPO in 2021 as CFO, and started heading the Commercial Management Services team too after a year.