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66 Lenovo Group Limited 2014/15 Annual Report
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT
Board and Board Committees Meetings and Attendance
Details of directors’ attendance at the annual general meeting, Board and Board Committees meetings held during
the year ended March 31, 2015 are set out below:
Attendance/Meetings held in the year
Name of directors
Board
(Notes 1 & 2)
Audit
Committee
(Notes 1 & 4)
Compensation
Committee
(Note 1)
Nomination and
Governance
Committee
(Notes 1 & 7)
Annual
General
Meeting
(Notes 3 & 4)
Executive director
Mr. Yang Yuanqing (Chairman & CEO) 7/7 – – 2/2 1/1
Non-executive directors
Mr. Zhu Linan 6/7 –3/4 –0/1
Mr. Zhao John Huan 7/7 – – – 0/1
Independent non-executive directors
Mr. Ting Lee Sen 7/7 4/4 4/4 –0/1
Dr. Tian Suning 7/7 – – – 0/1
Mr. Nicholas C. Allen 7/7 4/4 – – 1/1
Mr. Nobuyuki Idei 7/7 – – 2/2 1/1
Mr. William O. Grabe (Lead Independent Director) 7/7 –4/4 2/2 1/1
Mr. William Tudor Brown (Note 5) 7/7 3/3 4/4 –0/1
Ms. Ma Xuezheng 7/7 4/4 4/4 –1/1
Mr. Yang Chih-Yuan Jerry (Note 6) 3/3 – – – N/A
Notes:
(1) The attendance figure represents actual attendance/the number of meetings a director is entitled to attend.
(2) The Board held four regular meetings and three strategic meetings during the year.
(3) The Company held the annual general meeting on July 2, 2014.
(4) Representatives of the external auditor participated in every Audit Committee meeting and the annual general meeting held during the year.
(5) Mr. William Tudor Brown was appointed as a member of the Audit Committee with effect from May 22, 2014.
(6) Mr. Yang Chih-Yuan Jerry was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from November 6, 2014.
(7) For corporate governance reasons, Mr. Yang Yuanqing was required to excuse himself from the agenda item relating to assessment of the
performance of the Chairman and CEO of the Nomination and Governance Committee meeting to avoid conflict of interest.
During the year, the Chairman held two executive sessions with non-executive directors (including independent non-
executive directors), the first one being a session attended by only human resources management to review the
organization human resources planning of the Company while the other was without the presence of management to
discuss other Board matters.
To enhance the corporate governance practices, the Lead Independent Director held executive session with
independent non-executive directors without the presence of executive director and management after each regular
Board meeting to discuss matters relating to any issue or other matters such persons would like to raise.