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35
Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2000 Report of the Directors
Corporate governance
Tex Gunning, East Asia Pacific Aged 50. Joined Unilever 1982.
Appointed Business President 2000. Previous position: Business
Group President East Asia Pacific. Also represents the region on
the Foods Executive.
Bruno Lemagne, China (until August 2001) Aged 54. Joined
Unilever 1972. Appointed Business President 1998. Previous
position: Chairman, Unilever (China) Limited.
Harish M anwani, Latin America Aged 47. Joined Unilever 1976.
Business President from 1 April 2001. Previous position: Senior Vice-
President, Home & Personal Care Category Group.
Global Businesses
Çetin Yüceulu ˘g, DiverseyLever Aged 55. Joined Unilever 1973.
Appointed Business President 1996. Previous position: CEO, Lever
Industrial International.
Function
Simon Clift, M arketing Aged 43. Joined Unilever 1982. Appointed
Business President 1 January 2001. Previous position: Chairman
Personal Care Category Group, Latin America.
Corporate Officers
Jos Westerburgen, Joint Secretary Aged 58. Appointed 4 May
1988. Years of service on 31 December 2000: 17.
Stephen Williams, Joint Secretary and General Counsel Aged 53.
Appointed 1 December 1986. Years of service on 31 December
2000: 14.
Jeffrey Allgrove, Controller Aged 48. Appointed 4 May 1999.
Years of service on 31 December 2000: 23.
Jan Haars, Treasurer Aged 49. Appointed 1 August 1997.
Years of service on 31 December 2000: 3.
Board changes
Keki Dadiseth, Andrébaron van Heemstra and Charles
Strauss w ere elected as directors and Jan Peelen and Bob
Phillips retired as directors at the Annual General M eetings
on 3 M ay 2000. All other directors held office throughout
the year.
Following their election as directors, Keki Dadiseth and
Andrébaron van Heemstra became members of the Executive
Committee. Rudy Markham w as appointed as Financial
Director on 4 August 2000. On 1 January 2001, Patrick
Cescau was appointed as Foods Director, responsible for
Unilever’s Foods business w orldw ide, Keki Dadiseth was
appointed as Home & Personal Care Director, responsible for
HPC worldwide, including DiverseyLever, and Clive Butler
was appointed as Corporate Development Director.
In accordance with the Articles of Association of NV and
PLC, all existing directors will retire from office at the
Annual General Meetings on 9 M ay 2001 and, with the
exceptions of Roy Brow n and Alexander Kemner, who w ill
be retiring and not seeking re-election, will offer themselves
for re-election. Jos Westerburgen will be retiring from the
office of Joint Secretary on 1 July 2001. Their colleagues
wish to record their appreciation of the retiring directors’
and Joint Secretary’s substantial contributions to Unilever
over long and distinguished careers.
Details of Directors’ service contracts are given on page 41.
Advisory Directors’ changes
The Rt Hon The Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC w as
appointed as an Advisory Director with effect from 1 May
2000 until the Annual General M eetings in 2003. The
Lord Simon of Highbury CBE was appointed as an Advisory
Director with effect from 9 M ay 2000 until the Annual
General M eetings in 2003.
The Boards have resolved to re-appoint Baroness Chalker of
Wallasey, Claudio X Gonzalez and Hilmar Kopper as Advisory
Directors, until the Annual General M eetings in 2004.
Charles R Shoemate w as appointed as Advisory Director
with effect from 1 February 2001 until the Annual General
Meetings in 2004. Mr Shoemate was the former Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Bestfoods prior to its
acquisition by Unilever.
The Boards have also resolved to appoint Professor Wim Dik
as an Advisory Director from 9 M ay 2001 until the Annual
General M eetings in 2004. Professor Wim Dik, aged 62,
is a professor at the Delft University of Technology and
former Chairman and CEO of Koninkliijke KPN NV, Royal
Dutch Telecom. He w ill serve on the Nomination and
Remuneration Committees.
Sir Derek Birkin retired as an Advisory Director with effect
from the Annual General M eetings in 2000.
It is w ith great regret that the directors record the death on
4 July 2000 of The Rt Hon The Lord Leverhulme KG TD, the
grandson of William Lever, the founder of Lever Brothers.
Lord Leverhulme had been an Honorary Advisory Director
since 1985, having been previously an Advisory Director
since 1949.