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Board of Directors and Group Management continued
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The Gap, Inc. Penny Hughes was President, Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland, and
has been a non-executive director of Next Plc, Trinity Mirror Plc and The Body Shop Plc.
Sir David Scholey CBE, aged 69, was appointed to the Board in March 1998. He is a
member of the Nominations and Governance Committee and the Audit Committee. He
is Chairman of Close Brothers Group plc and the Chubb Corporation, USA and is an
adviser to UBS AG, Mitsubishi Corporation and IBCA-Fitch and Chairman of the Trustees
of the National Portrait Gallery. Sir David was formerly a non-executive director of the
Court of the Bank of England and a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
He will retire from the Board after the AGM on 26 July 2005.
Professor Jürgen Schrempp, aged 60, has been a member of the Board of directors
since May 2000 and is a member of the Nominations and Governance Committee and
Remuneration Committee. He has been Chairman of the Board of Management of
DaimlerChrysler AG since 1998. From 1995 until 1998 he was Chairman of the Board
of Management of Daimler-Benz AG. He was one of the principal architects of the
successful merger of Daimler-Benz with the Chrysler Corporation – a move that
created DaimlerChrysler. He was a member of the Supervisory Board of Mannesmann
AG until May 2000. Professor Schrempp is a member of the Board of directors of
Compagnie Financière Richemont SA and Sasol Limited. Additional engagements
include the Advisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG, the European Advisory Board of
Harvard Business School and the German Council of INSEAD.
Luc Vandevelde, aged 54, joined the Board in September 2003 and is a member of
the Remuneration Committee. He became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
Carrefour SA in February 2005. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Change
Capital Partners LLP, a private equity fund. Luc Vandevelde was formerly Chairman of
Marks & Spencer Group Plc and Chief Executive Officer of Promodes, and he has held
senior European and international roles with Kraft General Foods.
Senior Management
Members of the Executive Committee who are not also executive directors are
regarded as senior managers of the Company. Chaired by Arun Sarin, this committee
focuses on the Group’s strategy, financial structure and planning, succession planning,
organisational development and Group-wide policies. The Executive Committee
comprises the executive directors, details of whom are shown above, and the senior
managers listed below:
Brian Clark, Group Human Resources Director, aged 56, was appointed to this position
in 2005. He joined Vodafone in 1997 and, before his current position, was Chief
Executive, Asia Pacific Region. Prior to joining Vodafone, he was Managing Director
and Chief Executive Officer of Telkom SA Limited, South Africa.
Paul Donovan, Chief Executive, Other Vodafone Subsidiaries, aged 46, was appointed
to this position in January 2005. He joined Vodafone in 1999 as Managing Director –
Commercial, and was appointed Chief Executive of Vodafone Ireland in 2001. He has
over fifteen years experience in the telecommunications and IT industries and has held
senior roles at BT, One2One and Optus Communications and, prior to that, marketing
roles at the Mars Group, Coca Cola and Schweppes Beverages.
Pietro Guindani, Chief Executive Italy, aged 47, was appointed to this position in July
2004. He has been a member of Vodafone Italy’s board of directors since 2002 and
held the post of Chief Financial Officer for the Vodafone Group’s Southern Europe and
Middle East Region from 2001. He previously held a number of senior financial
appointments, including Chief Financial Officer of Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy) since its
start-up in 1995, International Finance Director with the Olivetti Group and Relationship
Banker with Citibank N.A.
Alan Harper, Group Strategy and Business Integration Director, aged 48, joined
Vodafone in 1995 as Group Commercial Director and he subsequently became
Managing Director of Vodafone UK. He was appointed to his current position in July
2000. Prior to joining the Group he held the post of Business Strategy Director with
Mercury One2One and senior roles with Unitel and STC Telecoms. He is also a
member of the Vodafone D2 GmbH Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Vodafone
UK Foundation.
Simon Lewis, Group Corporate Affairs Director, aged 46, joined Vodafone in November
2004. He was previously Group Director of Communications and Public Policy for
Centrica Plc, Director of Corporate Affairs at NatWest Group and the Head of Public
Relations at SG Warburg plc. He was President of the Institute of Public Relations in
1997 and is a Visiting Professor at the Cardiff School of Journalism. In 1998, he was
seconded to Buckingham Palace for two years as the first Communications Secretary
to The Queen. He is also a trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation.
Tim Miles, Chief Executive UK, aged 47, was appointed to this position in April 2005.
He joined Vodafone in August 2001 as Director of Business Markets for Vodafone New
Zealand and became Managing Director of Vodafone New Zealand in January 2002.
He has over twenty years experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry. Prior
to joining Vodafone, he was Vice President for Global Industries, Unisys Corporation,
USA and before that, held executive positions with Data General and IBM.
Bill Morrow, President Vodafone K.K. (Japan), aged 45, was appointed to this position
in April 2005 after ten years with the Vodafone Group in various positions, including
Chief Executive of Vodafone UK. He has twenty-five years of experience in the
telecommunications industry, holding senior leadership roles in the USA, Asia and
Europe, including management positions at Pacific Bell, director of AirTouch and Chief
Technical Officer and then Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at
Proximus (Belgium).
Stephen Scott, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, aged 51, was
appointed to this position in the Group in 1991, prior to which he was employed in the
Racal Group legal department, having moved into industry in 1980 from private law
practice in London. He is a director of the Company’s UK pension trustee company
and is a director and trustee of the Solicitors Pro Bono Group.
Shiro Tsuda, Executive Chairman and Chairman of the board of Vodafone K.K. (Japan),
aged 59, was appointed to this position in April 2005, having joined Vodafone in 2004.
He joined Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Public Corporation (now NTT) in 1970,
helping to establish the mobile phone project that later became NTT DoCoMo. In
1996, he became a board member of NTT DoCoMo.
Jürgen von Kuczkowski, Chief Executive of Vodafone D2 GmbH (Germany), aged 64,
was appointed to this position in June 1994. He joined Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH
(now Vodafone D2 GmbH) in October 1990, initially as Director of Sales and
Distribution. He was previously the Chief Executive, Central Europe Region and Chief
Executive, Northern Europe Region.
Phil Williams, aged 54, is a director of several Group companies and is the senior
Vodafone nominated director on the Board of Vodacom Group Pty Limited, the Group’s
South African associated company. He was Group Human Resources Director from
1989 to 2005, having previously been Personnel Director of Costain plc. He is a
trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation and a director of the UK pension trustee
companies. He will retire in July 2005.