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17
Our Management Board and Executive Officers:
Our Management Board currently consists of our four executive officers, and we are asking our shareholders to
elect Wilhelm G.A. Jacobs, our Senior Vice President, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, as a fifth member of our
Management Board at this annual meeting. Mr. Jacobs is not an executive officer of Vistaprint. All members of our
Management Board serve for four-year terms.
ROBERT S. KEANE, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Management Board
Mr. Keane, age 51, has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since he founded Vistaprint in January
1995. Mr. Keane served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors from January 1995 to August 2009 and was
appointed Chairman of the Management Board in September 2009. From 1988 to 1994, Mr. Keane was an executive
at Flex-Key Corporation, an OEM manufacturer of keyboards, displays and retail kiosks used for desktop publishing.
Mr. Keane earned his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard College in 1985 and his Masters of Business
Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France in 1994. Mr. Keane’s term as a member of our Management
Board will expire at our 2017 annual general meeting.
KATRYN “TRYNKA” S. BLAKE (née Shineman), Executive Vice President and President, Vistaprint
Business Unit
Ms. Blake, age 40, has served as Executive Vice President and President, Vistaprint Business Unit since July
2014. Ms. Blake previously served as our Executive Vice President, Global Marketing from July 2012 to June 2014,
Chief Customer Officer from June 2011 to June 2014, President of Vistaprint’s North American business unit from
November 2010 to June 2012, Chief Marketing Officer of Vistaprint's North American business unit from April 2008
to November 2010, and in a variety of marketing positions since joining Vistaprint in March 2004 as Director,
Marketing. Before joining Vistaprint, she served as a director and senior manager for PreVision Marketing since
1996. Ms. Blake holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Cornell University and a Masters of Business
Administration degree from Columbia Business School. Ms. Blake’s term as a member of our Management Board
will expire at our 2015 annual general meeting.
DONALD R. NELSON, Executive Vice President and President, Mass Customization Platform
Mr. Nelson, age 46, has served as our Executive Vice President and President, Mass Customization Platform
since June 2014. Mr. Nelson previously served as our Executive Vice President, Capabilities from July 2012 to June
2014, Chief Information Officer from May 2008 to June 2014, and Senior Vice President of Capabilities
Development from July 2006 to May 2008. Before joining Vistaprint, Mr. Nelson served as Chief Information Officer
at Sapient, where he started in 1993 as a software engineer, then later as vice president before assuming the role
of Chief Information Officer in 2001. Mr. Nelson received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Gordon
College. Mr. Nelson’s term as a member of our Management Board will expire at our 2015 annual general meeting.
ERNST J. TEUNISSEN, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Teunissen, age 48, has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since
March 2011. From October 2009 through February 2011, Mr. Teunissen served as our Vice President of
Strategy. Before joining Vistaprint, Mr. Teunissen was a founder and director of two corporate finance and
management consulting firms: Manifold Partners from May 2007 through September 2009 and ThreeStone
Ventures Limited from June 2003 through September 2009. From August 1999 to February 2003, Mr. Teunissen
served as an executive director in Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Division in London. Mr. Teunissen holds a
Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Business Administration
from Nijenrode University, The Netherlands School of Business. Mr. Teunissen’s term as a member of our
Management Board will expire at our 2015 annual general meeting.
There are no family relationships among any of the supervisory directors and executive officers of Vistaprint. No
arrangements or understandings exist between any supervisory director or any person nominated for appointment
as a supervisory director and any other person pursuant to which such person is to be selected as a supervisory
director or nominee for appointment as a supervisory director.
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