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Corporate governance Biographical details (continued)
Unilever Annual Report and Accounts 2006 47
Report of the Directors (continued)
Unilever Executive (UEx)*
Patrick Cescau
Group Chief Executive
(see previous details on page 46)
Vindi Banga
President Foods
Nationality: Indian. Aged 52. Appointed President Foods April 2005.
Joined Unilever 1977. Previous posts include: Business Group President
Home and Personal Care Asia 2004 in addition to Non-Executive
Chairman, Hindustan Lever 2004-2005. Chairman and Managing
Director Hindustan Lever 2000-2004.
Kees van der Graaf
President Europe
(see previous details on page 46)
Ralph Kugler
President Home and Personal Care
(see previous details on page 46)
Harish Manwani
President Asia Africa
Nationality: Indian. Aged 53. Appointed President Asia Africa April
2005. Joined Unilever 1976. He is also Non-Executive Chairman,
Hindustan Lever. Previous posts include: Business Group President,
Home and Personal Care, North America 2004. Business Group
President, Home and Personal Care, Latin America 2001 and Senior
Vice President, Hair Care and Oral Care 2000.
Rudy Markham
Chief Financial Officer
(see previous details on page 46)
Sandy Ogg
Chief Human Resources Officer
Nationality: American. Aged 53. Appointed Chief HR Officer April
2005. Joined Unilever 2003. Previous posts include: SVP Human
Resources, Foods 2003. Prior to joining Unilever he worked for
Motorola in Change Management/Organisation Effectiveness to
assist in the transformation of all Communications businesses.
John Rice**
President The Americas
Nationality: American. Aged 55. Appointed President The Americas
April 2005. Joined Unilever 1981. Previous posts include: Business
Group President, Unilever Foods, North America 2002 and Unilever
Bestfoods Latin America 2000.
*UEx members are treated as executive officers and senior management for US purposes and key management personnel for IFRS
purposes. Although Unilever intends to offer revised service agreements to members of UEx, the agreements are currently under
negotiation with these individuals. All members of the UEx have existing agreements with varying terms, however, all agreements
include a notice period of twelve months. Details of the remuneration paid and share awards are shown in aggregate in note 31
on page 122.
**Unilever announced on 19 December 2006 that John Rice had decided to retire from Unilever in March 2007. He will be replaced
on the Unilever Executive Team and as President, The Americas by Michael Polk. Michael is currently Group Vice President and
President Unilever United States. Michael joined Unilever in 2003 after 16 years at Kraft.