ESP, OUR EMPLOYEE SHARE PLAN: AT OVHCLOUD, THE CLOUD ALSO BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BUILD IT

ESP, OUR EMPLOYEE SHARE PLAN: AT OVHCLOUD, THE CLOUD ALSO BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BUILD IT

At OVHcloud, we don't just talk about growth, tech, and sovereign cloud. We also talk about sharing. Sharing the value, the project, and the future of the company with those who drive it forward every day.
This is precisely the ambition of ESP, our Employee Share Plan: a global employee shareholderplan that allows our employees, who wish to do so, to become OVHcloud shareholders under advantageous conditions.

ESP IN PRACTICE: A GLOBAL, ACCESSIBLE, AND STRUCTURED PLAN

ESP's objective is twofold: to make employee shareholder accessible to the largest number of people and to adapt it to the local specificities of each country where we operate.
 
Who is Eligible?
ESP is aimed at employees who:

• Benefit from the global incentive plan linked to the company's results.
• Meet a minimum seniority requirement (for example, 3 months as of August 31st for the FY25 campaign).
• Are part of the workforce at the time of subscription.

The idea is simple: if you contribute to the results, you can also choose to become a shareholder of those results, at your own scale.
 
How Does It Work?
The ESP principle is based on a few key mechanisms:

• You choose to invest all or part of your global incentive plan in OVHcloud shares.
• OVHcloud adds a contribution, which is an additional contribution paid by the company, according to a common group-wide scale.
• Your investment and the matching contribution are paid into an employee savings plan adapted to your country (PEG, PEGI, or dedicated plan), allowing you to gradually build a share savings portfolio.

In most cases, you can therefore become a shareholder without mobilizing additional personal funds: you simply use part of your incentive plan, boosted by the company's matching contribution.

WHY THIS PLAN MATTERS TO US

Beyond the financial aspect, ESP reflects a strong commitment from OVHcloud regarding how we share the value created:

• Recognizing the teams' commitment by directly associating them with the capital.
• Strengthening the link between collective performance and individual success.
• Encouraging a long-term vision, aligned with our industrial ambition and our model of a sovereign, sustainable, and open cloud.

ESP stands alongside other recognition plans, such as the Kudos program, which, for example, allows the conversion of seniority-linked points into various options, including OVHcloud shares. We will tell you more about Kudos in a future post! The idea remains the same: making value sharing a reflex, not an exceptional event.

WHAT ABOUT YOU, FUTURE OVHCLOUD TALENT?

Concretely, what’s in it for you if you join us?

• You join a company where employee shareholder is not a gadget, but a long-term installed pillar, with regular campaigns and a high participation rate.
• You have the opportunity, subject to eligibility conditions specific to your country, to become a shareholder and benefit from the company's matching contribution.
• You become part of a project where value creation is seen as a collective adventure shared between founders, management, operational teams, and new talents.

ESP is not an abstract promise: it is a concrete device that has already allowed a large majority of employees to become shareholders. If you join us, you won't just come to work on strategic products for the future of the European cloud. You will also have the opportunity to take part, at your level, in the value we create together.