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Vodafone Group Plc
Annual Report 2012
Board of directors and Group management (continued)
Executive Committee
Chaired by Vittorio Colao, this committee focuses on our strategy, nancial structure and planning, nancial and competitive performance,
succession planning, organisational development and Group-wide policies. The Executive Committee membership comprises the executive
directors, details of whom are shown onpage 60, 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.
Non-executive director
Anthony Watson cbe
Age: 67 Time on Board: 6 years 1 month
Skills and experience:
Tony’s depth of experience in the
City and in investment and asset
management are invaluable to
theBoard.
Career history:
Hermes Pensions Management Ltd:
Chief Investment Ofcer, later Chief
Executive. Managing Director of
AMP Asset Management plc; Chief
International Investment Ofcer,
Citicorp Investment Management;
Chairman of the Strategic Investment
Board in Northern Ireland; member
of the Advisory Board of Norges Bank
Investment Management; Chairman
of Marks & Spencer Pension Trust and
the Asian Infrastructure Fund; member
of the Financial Reporting Council. In
January 2009, Tony was awarded a
CBE for his services to the economic
redevelopment of Northern Ireland.
Additional appointments:
Senior Independent Director of
Hammerson plc and Witan Investment
Trust; non-executive director of Lloyds
Banking Group plc; member of the
Board of the Shareholder Executive.
Committees:
Nominations and Governance
Remuneration
Tony will step down from the
Remuneration Committee and join
the Audit and Risk Committee on
conclusion of the AGM on 24 July 2012.
Group Strategy and Business Development Director
Warren Finegold
Age: 55
Time on Executive Committee: 6 years 2 months
Career history:
Executive in the Corporate Finance department of Hill Samuel & Co. Limited
(1981–1985); Executive Director Goldman Sachs International (1985 – 1995)
holding positions in New York and London; Managing Director of UBS Investment
Bank and most recently head of its Technology team in Europe (1995 – 2006).
Group Chief Commercial Ofcer
Morten Lundal
Age: 47
Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 7 months
Career history:
Chief Executive Ofcer at Vodafone for the Africa and Central Europe region; various
senior positions with Nordic mobile operator, Telenor (1997 – 2004), including Chief
Executive Ofcer for the Internet Division and Telenor Business Solutions, as well
as the position of Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy; Chief Executive
Ofcer ofTelenor’s Malaysian subsidiary, DiGi Telecommunication (2004 – 2008).
Chief Executive Ofcer: Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacic region
Nick Read
Age: 47
Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 7 months
Career history:
Various senior roles in Vodafone Limited (the UK operating company),
includingChief Financial Ofcer, Chief Commercial Ofcer and Chief Executive
Ofcer (2002 – 2008); senior global nance positions with United Business Media
plc (1998 – 2002) and Federal Express Worldwide Inc. (1995 – 1998).
Group External Affairs Director
Matthew Kirk
Age: 51
Years on Executive Committee: 3 years 3 months
Career history:
Group Director of External Relationships, Vodafone Group Plc; member of the
BritishDiplomatic Service for more than 20years; British Ambassador to Finland
(2002 – 2006).
Group General Counsel and Company Secretary
Rosemary Martin
Age: 52
Time on Executive Committee: 2 years 3 months
Career history:
Chief Executive Ofcer of the Practical Law Group (2008); Reuters Group
Plc invariouscompany secretarial and legal roles, with the last ve years as
GroupGeneralCounsel and Company Secretary (1997 – 2008); partner with
Mayer,Brown, Rowe & Maw (1990 – 1997).
Group Human Resources Director
Ronald Schellekens
Age: 48
Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 5 months
Career history:
Executive Vice President Human Resources for Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s global
downstream business (2003 – 2008), various international senior human resources
roles at PepsiCo (1994 – 2003); human resources roles atAT&T Network Systems
inthe Netherlands and Poland.
Non-executive director
Philip Yea
Age: 57 Time on Board: 6 years 9 months
Skills and experience:
Philip brings to the Board his
considerable experience as a leader
of public and private businesses (as
Chief Financial Ofcer, Chief Executive
Ofcer and as Chairman) and, as a
private equity investor, deploying
his nancial and strategic skills. He
also has experience of business and
nancial turnarounds.
Career history:
Finance Director of Guinness PLC,
becoming Finance Director of Diageo
plc upon the merger of Guinness and
Grand Metropolitan Public Limited
Company in 1997 (1993 – 1999);
Managing Director at Investcorp (1999
– 2004); Chief Executive at 3i Group
plc (2005 – 2009); non-executive
directorships of HBOS plc and
Manchester United plc.
Additional appointments:
Advisor to HRH The Duke of York;
member of the Advisory Board to
PricewaterhouseCoopers in the
UK; member of the Advisory Board
of Bridges Ventures LLP; Chairman
of the Trustees of the British Heart
Foundation; independent director and
trustee on the Board of The Francis
Crick Institute; Chairman of The Rose
Partnership, Executive Search.
Committees:
Remuneration
Philip will join
the Nominations
and Governance
Committee on
conclusion of
the AGM on
24 July 2012.