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Directors and Senior Management
The business of the Company is managed by its board of directors (“the Board”).
Biographical details of the directors and senior management at the date of this report
are as follows:
Directors
Chairman
1. Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth, DL,aged 69, joined the Board in January 1997 and
became 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 and a member of the Supervisory Board of Heineken NV. Lord MacLaurin will
retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Company’s AGM on 25 July 2006. Upon his
retirement Lord MacLaurin will become an advisor to the Company and Chairman of The
Vodafone Group Foundation.
Deputy Chairman and senior independent director
2. Paul Hazen, aged 64, has been a member of the Board since June 1999 and became
Deputy Chairman and senior independent director in May 2000. He is a member of the
Nominations and Governance Committee. Paul Hazen became a director of AirTouch
Communications Inc. 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. He is
Chairman of KKR Financial Corp and Accel-KKR and is also a director of Safeway, Inc.,
Willis Group Holdings Limited and Xstrata AG. Paul Hazen will retire from the Board after
the Company’s AGM on 25 July 2006.
Executive Directors
3. Arun Sarin, Chief Executive, aged 51, became a member of the Board in June 1999.
He was appointed Chief Executive in July 2003 and 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 Communications Inc. 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 is a non-executive director of
the Court of the Bank of England.
4. Sir Julian Horn-Smith, Deputy Chief Executive, aged 57, has been a member of the
Board since June 1996. Previously the Group Chief Operating Officer, Sir Julian was
appointed Deputy Chief Executive in January 2005. Since then, he has been 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, Smiths Group plc and Sage Group PLC. Sir
Julian will retire from the Board at the conclusion of the AGM on 25 July 2006 and he
will become Chairman of Sage Group PLC on 1 August 2006.
5. Thomas Geitner, Chief Executive Officer, New Businesses, aged 51, was appointed to
this role on 1 May 2006. New Businesses will focus on the delivery of new revenue
streams beyond pure mobile. He was appointed to the Board in May 2000 during which
time he established and managed Global Products and Services. He was responsible for
the single Vodafone brand, Vodafone live! and Vodafone Wireless Office and the partner
networks franchise. In July 2003, he was appointed Chief Technology Officer responsible
for the rollout of 3G, the consolidation of data centres and service platform operations
and the establishment of the Global Supply Chain organisation. Prior to joining the
Group, he was a member of the Management Board of RWE AG.
6. Andy Halford, Chief Financial Officer, aged 47, joined the Board in July 2005. Andy
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 and is currently a member of the Board of Representatives of
The Verizon Wireless partnership. Prior to joining Vodafone, he was Group Finance
Director at East Midlands Electricity Plc. Andy holds a bachelors degree in Industrial
Economics from Nottingham University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales.
Non-executive directors
7. Sir John Bond, aged 64, was appointed to the Board in January 2005 and is a
member of the Nominations and Governance and Remuneration Committees. Sir John
Bond is a non-executive director of Ford Motor Company. He retired from the position of
Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 26 May 2006, after 45 years of service. Other
previous roles include Chairman of HSBC Bank plc and director of The Hong Kong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation and HSBC North America Holdings Inc. Previous non-
executive directorships include the London Stock Exchange, Orange plc, British Steel plc
and the Court of the Bank of England. Sir John will succeed Lord MacLaurin as Chairman
of the Company on conclusion of the AGM on 25 July 2006.
8. Dr Michael Boskin, aged 60, became a member of the Board in June 1999 on
completion of the merger with AirTouch Communications Inc. and is Chairman of the
Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Dr Boskin was a
director of AirTouch Communications Inc. 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. 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.
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