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Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2011 73
Governance
Benecial interests
The beneficial interests of directors and their connected persons in the ordinary shares of the Company, which includes interests in the Vodafone Share
Incentive Plan, but which excludes interests in the Vodafone Group share option schemes, and the Vodafone Group short-term or long-term incentives,
are shown below:
1 April 2010 or
16 May 2011 31 March 2011 date of appointment
Sir John Bond 370,677 370,677 357,584
John Buchanan 222,223 222,223 211,055
Vittorio Colao 2,307,663 2,307,663 1,575,567
Andy Halford 2,335,914 2,335,622 2,186,541
Michel Combes 670,589 670,297 392,223
Stephen Pusey 544,733 544,733 402,599
Renee James(1) 50,000 50,000 –
Alan Jebson 82,340 82,340 82,340
Samuel Jonah 55,350 55,350 –
Gerard Kleisterlee(1) –––
Nick Land 35,000 35,000 35,000
Anne Lauvergeon 28,936 28,936 28,936
Simon Murray (retired 27 July 2010) – – 246,250
Luc Vandevelde 89,030 89,030 72,829
Anthony Watson 115,000 115,000 115,000
Philip Yea 61,250 61,250 61,250
Note:
(1) Non-executive directors appointed to the Board as follows: Renee James 1 January 2011, Gerard Kleisterlee 1 April 2011.
At 31 March 2011 and during the period from 1 April 2011 to 16 May 2011, no director had any interest in the shares of any subsidiary company. Other than
those individuals included in the table above who were Board members at 31 March 2011, members of the Group’s Executive Committee at 31 March 2011
had an aggregate beneficial interest in 2,755,152 ordinary shares of the Company. At 16 May 2011 the directors had an aggregate beneficial interest
in 6,968,705 ordinary shares of the Company and the Executive Committee members had an aggregate beneficial interest in 2,755,736 ordinary shares
of the Company. None of the directors or the Executive Committee members had an individual beneficial interest amounting to greater than 1% of
the Company’s ordinary shares.
Interests in share options of the Company
At 16 May 2011 there had been no change to the directors’ interests in share options from 31 March 2011 (see page 71).
Other than those individuals included in the table above, at 16 May 2011, members of the Group’s Executive Committee held options for 2,620,271 ordinary
shares at prices ranging from 115.3 pence to 167.8 pence per ordinary share, with a weighted average exercise price of 161.9 pence per ordinary share
exercisable at dates ranging from July 2008 to July 2017.
Sir John Bond, John Buchanan, Alan Jebson, Renee James, Samuel Jonah, Gerard Kleisterlee, Nick Land, Anne Lauvergeon, Luc Vandevelde, Anthony
Watson and Philip Yea held no options at 16 May 2011.
Directors’ interests in contracts
None of the current directors had a material interest in any contract of significance to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries was a party during the
financial year.
Luc Vandevelde
On behalf of the Board