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Directors and Senior Management
The business of the Company is managed by its Board of directors. Biographical
details of the directors and senior management are as follows:
Directors
Chairman
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth, DL,aged 68, joined the Board in January 1997 and
was made Chairman in July 1998. He is Chairman of the Nominations and
Governance Committee. Lord MacLaurin 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. He is also a non-executive director of the investment
bank, The Evolution Group Plc.
Deputy Chairman
Paul Hazen, aged 63, has been a member of the Board of directors since June 1999
and became Deputy Chairman and the Board’s nominated senior independent director
in May 2000. He is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the
Nominations and Governance Committee. In 2001, he retired as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Wells Fargo & Company and its principal subsidiary, Wells Fargo
Bank, NA. Paul Hazen is Chairman of Accel-KKR and KKR Financial Corp. and is also a
director of Safeway, Inc., Willis Group Holdings Limited and Xstrata AG.
Executive directors
Arun Sarin, Chief Executive, aged 50, became a member of the Board in June 1999.
He was appointed Chief Executive in July 2003 and he is a member of the Nominations
and Governance Committee. Arun Sarin joined Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco
in 1984 and has served in many executive positions in his 20 year career in
telecommunications. He was a director of AirTouch from July 1995 and was President
and Chief Operating Officer from February 1997 to June 1999. He was Chief
Executive Officer for the Vodafone United States and Asia Pacific region until 15 April
2000, when he became a non-executive director. He has served as a director of The
Gap, Inc., The Charles Schwab Corporation and Cisco Systems, Inc. and has recently
been appointed as a non-executive director of the Court of the Bank of England.
Sir Julian Horn-Smith, Deputy Chief Executive, aged 56, has been a member of the
Board of directors since June 1996. Previously the Group Chief Operating Officer, he
was appointed Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2005. He is responsible for
Business Development, which includes delivering Vodafone’s product and services
portfolio to Vodafone’s affiliates and Partner Networks and expanding and consolidating
Vodafone’s footprint. He is a director of China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited and several
of the Group’s overseas operating companies, including Chairman of the Supervisory
Boards of Vodafone Deutschland GmbH and Vodafone D2 GmbH. Sir Julian is also a
non-executive director of Lloyds TSB Group plc and Smiths Group plc.
Peter Bamford, Chief Marketing Officer, aged 51, joined the Board in April 1998 and
was appointed to his present position in 2003. He is responsible for the full range of
marketing and commercial activities including brand, global product development and
content management, accountability for serving Vodafone’s global corporate customers
and management and procurement of the global handset portfolio. Previously, he was
Chief Executive, Northern Europe, Middle East & Africa Region and Managing Director
of Vodafone UK. Before joining Vodafone in 1997, Peter Bamford held senior positions
with Kingfisher plc and Tesco PLC and was a director of WH Smith PLC.
Thomas Geitner, Chief Technology Officer, aged 50, was appointed to the Board in
May 2000 and is responsible for Group Technology. Prior to joining the Group, he was
a member of the Management Board of RWE AG. Thomas Geitner is a director of
several of the Group’s overseas subsidiaries including Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Arcor AG & Co.KG, a member of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone D2 GmbH
and a member of the Management Boards of Vodafone Holding GmbH and Vodafone
Deutschland GmbH. He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of Singulus
Technologies AG.
Ken Hydon, Financial Director, aged 60, has been a member of the Board 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 and is a member of the Board of
Representatives of the Verizon Wireless partnership in the United States. Ken Hydon is
also a non-executive director of Reckitt Benckiser plc and Tesco PLC. He will retire
from the Board on conclusion of the AGM on 26 July 2005.
Non-executive directors
Sir John Bond, aged 63, was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2005 and became
a member of the Remuneration Committee from 1 April 2005. He is the Group
Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc and a non-executive director of Ford Motor Company
and The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He joined HSBC in
1961. Sir John’s previous roles include Chairman of HSBC Bank plc and the Institute
of International Finance (Washington) and he has been a non-executive director of the
London Stock Exchange, Orange plc, British Steel plc and the Court of the Bank of
England.
Dr. Michael Boskin, aged 59, became a member of the Board of directors in June
1999 on completion of the merger with AirTouch Communications Inc. and he is a
member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee. 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.
Dr Boskin is President and CEO of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company,
and is also a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Shinsei Bank Limited and Oracle
Corporation.
Lord Broers, aged 66, joined the Board in January 1998 and is a member of the Audit
Committee and the Nominations and Governance Committee. He is President of the
Royal Academy of Engineering and a former Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.
He spent many years with IBM, in senior roles within the research and development
function, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Electrical Engineers and
the Institute of Physics. Lord Broers is also a Foreign Associate of the US National
Academy of Engineering, a trustee of the British Museum and Chairman of the House
of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee. He chairs the Vodafone Group
Foundation and the Company’s UK pension trustee company.
John Buchanan, aged 61, has been a member of the Board of directors since April
2003. He is a member of the Audit Committee and, solely for the purposes of relevant
legislation, is the Board’s appointed financial expert on that Committee. He retired from
the Board of BP p.l.c. in 2002 after six years as Group Chief Financial Officer and
executive director following a wide-ranging career with the company. He was a
member of the United Kingdom Accounting Standards Board from 1997 to 2001. He
is the Deputy Chairman of Smith & Nephew plc and a non-executive director of
AstraZeneca PLC and BHP Billiton.
Penny Hughes, aged 45, has been a member of the Board since September 1998
and is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. She has particular expertise in
marketing and has developed experience in many human resource areas, including
leadership development, motivation and retention. She is President of the Advertising
Association, a member of the advisory committee of Bridgepoint Capital Limited and a
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