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64 Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2007
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. Sir John Bond became Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc in July 2006
having previously served as a non-executive director of the Board, and is
Chairman of the Nominations and Governance Committee. Sir John is a
non-executive director of Ford Motor Company, USA and a director of Shui
On Land Limited (Hong Kong SAR). He retired from the position of Group
Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc in 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.
Executive Directors
2. Arun Sarin, Chief Executive, 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 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.
3. Vittorio Colao, Deputy Chief Executive, joined the Board in October 2006.
He spent the early part of his career as a Partner in the Milan office of
McKinsey & Co working on media, telecommunications and industrial goods
and was responsible for recruitment. In 1996, he joined Omnitel Pronto
Italia, which subsequently became Vodafone Italy, and he was appointed
Chief Executive in 1999. He was then appointed Regional Chief Executive
Officer, Southern Europe for Vodafone Group Plc in 2001, became a
member of the Board in 2002 and was appointed to the role of Regional
Chief Executive Officer for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa for
Vodafone in 2003. In 2004, he left Vodafone to join RCS MediaGroup, the
leading Italian publishing company, where he was Chief Executive until he
rejoined Vodafone.
4. Andy Halford, Chief Financial Officer, 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.
Board of Directors and Group Management
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