Coty Names Patrice de Talhouet CFO Effective Early 2014

Coty

announced today the appointment of Patrice de Talhouet as CFO effective early 2014. He will Commonwealth REIT who will stay on at Coty through March 2014 to provide a seamless transition for Mr. de Talhouet, as well as to complete Coty's Fiscal 2014 second quarter earnings release. As Corporate Finance Officer Americas and a member of the finance executive committee for Mars, Inc., Mr. de Talhouet, among other things, successfully led a multiple year program to transform the global Finance function for the company, oversaw governance and compliance in the region, and was Dean of Mars University for Finance. The five years prior he served as CFO Europe for Mars Global Chocolate. Before joining Mars, Inc., Mr. de Talhouet spent more than a decade in senior finance positions for Alcatel-Lucent, gaining deep financial expertise and co-piloting skills with global corporations both in Europe and the Americas. He started his career at Societe Generale bank where he spent four years. He holds Bachelor Degrees in Economics and International Management as well as a