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Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2003
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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Directors and Senior Management
The business of the Company is managed by its Board of directors. The
Company’s Articles of Association provide that, until otherwise determined by
ordinary resolution, the number of directors will not be less than three.
Biographical details of the directors and senior management are as follows:
Directors
Chairman
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth, DL, aged 66, has been a member of the Board
of directors since January 1997. He is Chairman of the Nominations Committee
and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He was Chairman of Tesco Plc
from 1985 to 1997, and has been a director of Enterprise Oil Plc, Guinness Plc,
National Westminster Bank Plc and Whitbread Plc. Lord MacLaurin is a member
of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone Holding GmbH.
Deputy Chairman
Paul Hazen, aged 61, has been a member of the Board of directors since June
1999 and became Deputy Chairman and the Board’s nominated senior non-
executive director in May 2000. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a
member of the Nominations Committee. He became a director of AirTouch in
April 1993. In 2001, he retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wells
Fargo & Company and its principal subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Mr Hazen is
also a director of Safeway Inc., Phelps Dodge Corporation, Xstrata AG and
E.piphany and he is Chairman of Accel-KKR.
Executive directors
Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive, aged 55, has been a member of the
Board of directors since August 1985 and the Chief Executive of the Company
since January 1997. He is a member of the Nominations Committee. He was the
Managing Director of Vodafone Limited, the UK network operator, from January
1985 to December 1996. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone
Holding GmbH, a member of the Board of Representatives of the Verizon Wireless
partnership, and a non-executive director of China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited.
Sir Christopher will retire as Chief Executive after the Annual General Meeting on
30 July 2003.
Arun Sarin, Chief Executive Designate, aged 48, has been a member of the
Board of directors since June 1999 and was Chief Executive Officer for the
United States and Asia Pacific region until 15 April 2000, when he became a
non-executive director. He was a director of AirTouch from July 1995 and was
President and Chief Operating Officer from February 1997 to June 1999. He is
presently a director of The Gap, Inc., The Charles Schwab Corporation and Cisco
Systems, Inc. but will relinquish these directorships before the end of 2003.
Arun Sarin joined the Executive Committee on 1 April 2003 and will succeed
Sir Christopher Gent as Chief Executive after the Annual General Meeting on
30 July 2003.
Julian Horn-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer, aged 54, has been a
member of the Board of directors since June 1996. He was appointed Group
Chief Operating Officer on 1 April 2001, having been Chief Executive of
Vodafone’s Continental Europe businesses and a director of several of the
Group’s overseas operating companies. He is the Chairman of the Management
Board of Vodafone Holding GmbH. He is also a non-executive director of Smiths
Group Plc.
Peter Bamford, Chief Executive, Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region,
aged 49, has been a member of the Board of directors since April 1998. He has
responsibility for the Group’s Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa businesses.
He was Managing Director of Vodafone UK Limited until April 2001. Before joining
Vodafone in 1997, Mr Bamford was a director of WH Smith Group Plc.
Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Southern Europe Region, aged 41, joined the
Board of directors on 1 April 2002. He has had responsibility for the Group’s
businesses in Southern Europe since April 2001. He spent the early part of his
career at McKinsey & Co, where he was a Partner, before joining Omnitel Pronto
Italia SpA as its Chief Operating Officer. In 1999, he became the Chief Executive
Officer of Omnitel Pronto Italia SpA (now operating as Vodafone). He is currently
a member of the Aspen Institute and a non-executive director of RAS Insurance
in Italy.
Thomas Geitner, Chief Executive, Global Products and Services, aged 48, has
been a member of the Board of directors since May 2000. He is responsible for
Vodafone’s initiatives on brand, global products, multinational accounts,
technology, supply chain and the achievement of revenue and cost synergies
between the operating companies. Prior to joining the Group, he was a member
of the Management Board of RWE AG. He is Deputy Chairman of the
Management Board of Vodafone Holding GmbH and a non-executive board
member of Singulus Technologies AG.
Ken Hydon, Financial Director, aged 58, has been a member of the Board of
directors since 1985. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the
Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a director of several subsidiaries of the
Company, a member of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone Holding GmbH and a
member of the Board of Representatives of the Verizon Wireless partnership in
the United States.
Non executive directors
Dr Michael Boskin, aged 57, has been a member of the Board of directors
since June 1999 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit
Committee. He was a director of AirTouch from August 1996 to June 1999. He
has been a Professor of Economics at Stanford University since 1971 and was
Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from February 1989
until January 1993. He is also a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation, First Health
Group Corp. and Oracle Corporation.
Professor Sir Alec Broers, aged 64, is the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
University and President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He first joined the
Board of directors in January 1998. He is a member of the Nominations
Committee and chairs the Vodafone Group Foundation and the Company’s UK
pension trustee company. He spent many years with IBM and is a Fellow of the
Royal Society, the Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Physics. He
is also a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Dr John Buchanan, aged 60, joined the Board on 1 April 2003. He is a
member of the Audit Committee. He retired from the Board of BP plc in
November 2002 after a long career with BP culminating in his appointment, in
1996, as Group Chief Financial Officer. He was a member of the United Kingdom
Accounting Standards Board from 1997 to 2001 and is an independent director
of AstraZeneca plc, BHP Billiton and Boots Group PLC.
Penny Hughes, aged 43, has been a member of the Board of directors since
September 1998, and is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Mrs
Hughes has held posts with The Coca-Cola Company, Next Plc and Body Shop
Plc and is currently a non-executive director of Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken
AB, Trinity Mirror plc, The Gap, Inc. and Chairman of Web-Angel plc.