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Governance |57
Financial Director Designate
Andy Halford, Financial Director Designate, aged 46, will become the Financial
Director of the Company on conclusion of the AGM on 26 July 2005. He joined
Vodafone in 1999 as Financial Director for Vodafone Limited, the UK operating
company, and in 2001, he became Financial Director for Vodafone’s Northern Europe,
Middle East and Africa Region. In 2002, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of
Verizon Wireless in the US. Prior to joining Vodafone he was Group Finance Director at
East Midlands Electricity Plc.
Integration and Operations Committee
On 1 January 2005, a new Integration and Operations Committee came into effect.
Chaired by Arun Sarin, the Committee is responsible for setting operational plans,
budgets and forecasts, product and service development, customer segmentation,
managing delivery of multi-market propositions and managing shared resources. The
Committee comprises the members of the Executive Committee plus:
Fritz Joussen, Chief Operating Officer Germany, aged 42, was appointed to this
position in November 2003. He started his career at Tektronix in the US and went on
to join Mannesmann in 1988 and Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH (now Vodafone D2
GmbH) in 1990. In 1997, he was appointed Vice President of Marketing and Product
Management as a Management Board member of Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH.
From December 2000 until November 2003, he was Vodafone’s Director of Global
Product Management. He is a member of the Management Board of Vodafone D2
GmbH.