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50 Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2010
Board of directors and Group management continued
Executive Committee
Chaired by Vittorio Colao, this committee focuses on the Group’s strategy, financial
structure and planning, succession planning, organisational development and
Group-wide policies. The Executive Committee membership comprises the executive
directors, details of whom are shown on pages 48 and 49 above, and the senior
managers who are listed below.
Senior management
Members of the Executive Committee who are not also executive directors are
regarded as senior managers of the Company.
Wendy Becker, aged 44, Chief Marketing Officer, was appointed to this position and
joined the Executive Committee in September 2009. She was previously Managing
Director of Talk Talk, a subsidiary of the Carphone Warehouse. Prior to this role she
was a partner at McKinsey & Company with responsibility for the UK consumer
practice, which specialises in strategic marketing and brand roles at Procter &
Gamble. She is a non-executive director of Whitbread plc.
Warren Finegold, aged 53, Group Strategy and Business Development Director,
joined the Executive Committee in April 2006 as Chief Executive, Global Business
Development with responsibility for mergers and acquisitions, business development
and partner markets. He assumed his current position in August 2009 when his role
was expanded to include Group Strategy. He started his career with Hill Samuel & Co.
Limited as an Executive in the Corporate Finance department, advising clients on
mergers and acquisitions. He then moved to Goldman Sachs International in 1986
where he held positions in New York and London. Prior to joining Vodafone he was a
Managing Director of UBS Investment Bank where he held a number of senior
positions, most recently as head of its technology team in Europe.
Matthew Kirk, aged 49, Group External Affairs Director, was appointed to his current
position and joined the Executive Committee in March 2009. Matthew joined
Vodafone in 2006 as Group Director of External Relationships. Prior to that he was a
member of the British Diplomatic Service for more than 20 years and before joining
Vodafone served as British Ambassador to Finland.
Terry Kramer, aged 50, Regional President – Vodafone Americas, joined Vodafone
in January 2005 as Chief of Staff. Before moving to his present role he also served as
Group Human Resources Director and Group Strategy and Business Improvement
Director. He is a Board member of Verizon Wireless and the mobile industry
association, GSMA, Chairman of Vodafone Ventures Limited and Chairman of the
Vodafone Americas Foundation. Prior to joining Vodafone he was Chief Executive
Officer of Q Comm International Inc., a publicly traded provider of transaction
processing services for the telecommunications industry. He also worked for 12
years at PacTel/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles including President
AirTouch Paging, Vice President Human Resources-AirTouch Communications, Vice
President Business Development-AirTouch Europe and Vice President & General
Manager-AirTouch Cellular Southwest Market. Prior to that he was an Associate with
Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc, a management consulting firm.
Morten Lundal, aged 45, Chief Executive Officer, Africa and Central Europe Region,
was appointed to his current position and joined the Executive Committee in
November 2008. He joined Nordic mobile operator, Telenor, in 1997 and held several
Chief Executive Officer positions including for the Internet Division and Telenor
Business Solutions as well as the position of Executive Vice President for Corporate
Strategy before becoming the Chief Executive Officer of Telenor’s Malaysian
subsidiary, DiGi Telecommunications.
Rosemary Martin, aged 50, was appointed Group General Counsel and Company
Secretary in March 2010. She previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the
Practical Law Group prior to which she previously spent 11 years with Reuters Group
Plc. in various company secretary and legal roles with the last five years as Group
General Counsel and Company Secretary. Before joining Reuters she was a partner
with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. She is a non-executive director of HSBC Bank Plc
(the European arm of HSBC Group) and a member of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of England and Wales Corporate Governance Committee.
Nick Read, aged 45, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific and Middle East Region, was
appointed to this position and joined the Executive Committee in November 2008.
He joined Vodafone in 2002 and has held a variety of senior roles including Chief
Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer of Vodafone Limited, the UK operating
company, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Limited in early
2006. Prior to joining Vodafone he held senior global finance positions with United
Business Media plc and Federal Express Worldwide.
Ronald Schellekens, aged 46, Group Human Resources Director, joined Vodafone
and the Executive Committee in January 2009. Prior to joining Vodafone he was
Executive Vice President Human Resources for Royal Dutch Shell plc’s global
downstream business (refining, retail, commercial, lubricants, chemicals and
Canadian Oil Sands) responsible for approximately 81,000 employees in 120
countries. Prior to working for Shell he spent nine years working for PepsiCo in various
international senior human resources roles including assignments in Switzerland,
Spain, South Africa, the UK and Poland. In his last role he was responsible for the
Europe, Middle East and Africa region for PepsiCo Foods International. Prior to
PepsiCo he worked for nine years for AT&T Network Systems in human resources
roles in the Netherlands and Poland.
Other Board and Executive Committee members
The following members also served on the Board or the E xecutive Committee during
the 2010 financial year:
Stephen Scott was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary and a member
of the Executive Committee until his retirement on 30 March 2010. Frank Rovekamp
was Group Chief Marketing Officer and a member of the Executive Committee until
18 September 2009.