Days before U.K-based media agency holding company Aegis Group is set to hold its annual shareholders meeting, its largest shareholder, French financier Vincent Bollore, has nominated two new members
to represent is interests on the board: Philippe Germond, former head of French mobile firm Alcatel; and Roger Hatchuel, former owner of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Bollore,
who is also chairman of Paris-based rival Havas, recently raised his take in Aegis to 27.56 percent, near the threshold required to mount a formal takeover.