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Annual report and accounts 200937 easyJet plc
Overview
Business review
Governance
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06 John Browett
Independent Non Executive Director
John (1963) joined easyJet in September 2007.
He is currently Chief Executive Ofcer of DSG
International plc, a position he has held since
December 2007. Prior to joining DSG International,
John was the Operations Development Director
of Tesco plc. He joined Tesco as Group Strategy
Director in 1998 and held a number of Executive
Director positions in the company including
running Tesco.com from 2000 to 2004 where he
was responsible for formulating and delivering its
strategy from launch to protability.
A graduate of Cambridge University and Wharton
Business School, John was at the Boston Consulting
Group between 1993 and 1998.
07 Professor Rigas Doganis
Independent Non Executive Director
Rigas (1939) was appointed to the Board on
1 December 2005. Rigas is an aviation consultant
and strategy adviser to airlines, airports, banks and
governments around the world. He is Chairman
of the European Aviation Club in Brussels and a
Non Executive Director of GMR Hyderabad
International Airport, India. He is a former
Chairman/CEO of Olympic Airways and was
formerly a Non Executive Director of South
African Airways. Rigas is also a visiting Professor
at Craneld University and the author of books
on aviation economics and management.
08 Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
Non Executive Director
Stelios (1967) founded easyJet in 1995.
He was easyJet’s Non Executive Chairman until
November 2002 and was reappointed to the
Board in May 2005. A graduate of the London
School of Economics and City University Business
School, Stelios founded hisrst business, Stelmar
Tankers, in 1992. This shipping company listed on
the New York Stock Exchange in 2001 and was
sold in 2005 to OSG shipping group.
Since 1999 Stelios has set up some 16 other
“easy”-branded ventures, which are capitalised
and managed separately from easyJet within
easyGroup Holdings Ltd, Stelios’ private investment
vehicle. An up-to-date list of these businesses can
be found on www.easy.com. easyGroup owns
the “easy” brand and licenses it to the various
easy-branded ventures (including easyJet) and
is also a major shareholder in easyJet plc. Stelios
was knighted in November 2006 for services
to entrepreneurship.
09 Keith Hammil
Independent Non Executive Director
Keith (1952) was appointed to the Board on
1 March 2009. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants, is chairman of Travelodge
and was Chairman of Go, prior to its acquisition by
easyJet in 2002. He has considerable experience
as a Director of listed companies, is currently the
Chairman of Tullett Prebon and Alterian and was
Chairman of Luminar and Moss Bros. He is also a
Director of Collins Stewart and has previously
been a Director of Electrocomponents and
Cadmus Communications Corp. He was Finance
Director of WH Smith, Forte and United Distillers
and a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also
chairs the board of the University of Nottingham.
10 Robert Rothenberg
Non Executive Director
Bob (1950), was appointed to the Board on
1 August 2009. He is Senior Partner in the
London-based accountancyrm of Blick
Rothenberg. Bob is a Governor of Highgate School
and a Trustee of The Prince’s Foundation for the
Built Environment. He was made an MBE in the
2007 New Year’s Honours List for services to
business and to the community in London.
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The following Directors resigned during the year:
Dawn Airey (resigned 31 December 2008)
Sir Colin Chandler (resigned 1 July 2009)
Jeff Carr (resigned 25 September 2009)