Page 7 - Internal newsletter south region 9th issue 2021

Human resources

Vanessa Spriet (Lille) graduated with a master's degree in English and worked for 15 years as a multi-purpose
assistant in many different companies. She has just joined Sakura France as a CSA (to replace Murielle Gaonac’h
during her 18-month maternity leave).
“I’m really happy to be back in my native region and to assist customers in a meaningful domain such as cancer
pathology.”

Joel Padonou. Born in Benin, a seriously benign west African country. Living for so long time France, he is
graduated in corporate finance from University of Lille. Before Sakura, he had various working experiences in
accountancy in companies like AVIS BUDGET, DELOITTE .
“I am part of South of Europe team and taking care of the France RBU and Portugal as well. I believe in the
teamwork and enjoy working with people with different background. I am enthusiastic, with good vibes , love music,
rap music and not rock. I also love Basketball and Football”

Based in Rome Mauro Pandolfi started in Sakura end of May this year as Field service engineer. Mauro attended
High School in Electronic and worked many years as Hardware and Software Field Service Engineer and
Technical Coordinator. Since 2014 he is covering the role of Field Service Engineer for different diagnostic
Products in the Pre-Analytics, supporting Blood Cell Counters and Point-of-Care Test (POCT).

Based in our Venice office Maria Puppoli is the new Financial Accountant: she will be responsible for the general
Finance accounting, VAT, Intrastat filing, SRXP, balance specifications, supporting with the monthly reports and
the statutory annual accounts for our Italian and Spanish entity.
Maria has a master’s degree in business economics & Management and a solid Finance background.