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Board composition
Executive
46%
Non-executive
54%
Male
69%
Female
31%
Board experience
Retail
92%
Consumer
100%
Finance
31%
E-commerce
23%
International
Board tenure
0-1 years
23%
2-3 years
31%
4-5 years
23%
6-10 years
23%
Miranda Curtis
Non-executive
director
Vindi Banga
Non-executive
director
Martha Lane Fox
Non-executive
director
Jan du Plessis
Senior Independent
Director
Overview Strategic review Financial review Governance Financial statements and other information
Governance Marks and Spencer Group plc Annual report and financial statements 2012 41
Appointed in June 2007. Martha’s considerable
expertise in e-commerce and experience in the
successful operation of online and consumer-facing
businesses is helping to develop and challenge
our multi-channel strategy. Martha is the UK’s
Digital Champion and Chair of Go ON UK. She
chairs the Government’s Digital Advisory Board
and is a non-executive director of MyDeco.com.
She was a non-executive director of Channel 4
Television until January 2012. Martha is well-known
as one of the co-founders of lastminute.com, which
she took public in 2000. She is the founder and
Chair of LuckyVoice.com and of her own
grant-giving foundation, Antigone.org.
Member of the Audit and Nomination Committees
Independent
Appointed as a non-executive director in
November 2008 and Senior Independent Director
on 1 March 2012. Jan has considerable business
and brand experience, having sat on the boards
of a number of leading companies across a variety
of industries. Jan is Chairman of Rio Tinto plc.
He was formerly Chairman of British American
Tobacco plc and RHM plc and a non-executive
director of Lloyds Banking Group. He was also
Group Finance Director of the Swiss luxury goods
group Richemont until 2004.
Member of the Audit, Nomination and
Remuneration Committees
Independent
Appointed on 1 February 2012. Miranda has
considerable experience within the international
consumer and technology sectors and extensive
experience of the global broadband cable industry.
In her 20-year career with Liberty, Miranda led the
company’s investments in digital distribution and
content operations across Continental Europe
and Asia-Pacific, most notably in Japan. Miranda
is Chairman of Waterstones, a non-executive
director of Liberty Global Inc and was a non-
executive director of National Express Group plc
until 11 May 2012.
Member of the Nomination and
Remuneration Committees
Independent
Appointed on 1 September 2011. Vindi has
extensive consumer brand knowledge and global
business experience, acquired over 30 years in
a number of senior roles within the consumer
goods industry at Unilever plc, including President
of the Global Foods, Home and Personal Care
businesses, and as a member of the Unilever
Executive Board. Vindi is a partner at private
equity investment firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice
and a non-executive director of Thomson Reuters
and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
Member of the Nomination and Remuneration
Committees
Independent
Amanda Mellor
Group Secretary and Head of Corporate
Governance
Appointed in July 2009. Amanda was appointed
a non-executive director of Kier Group on
1 December 2011.
Board diversity