| Mr Paul Adams
| Appointed a Director in March 2001 and Chief Executive in January 2004 & retired in 2011. He joined British American Tobacco in July 1991 and held senior appointments as Regional Director, Asia-Pacific and Regional Director, Europe prior to becoming Deputy Managing Director in June 2001 and Managing Director in January 2002. |
| Ms Karen de Segundo
| Ms Karen de Segundowas appointed a Director in 2007 and serves as Chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and as a member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She joined Shell in 1971 and gained valuable experience in senior executive roles in several countries before retiring as CEO of Shell International Renewables and President of Shell Hydrogen in 2005. Karen is currently a Non-Executive Director of Lonmin plc, Ensus Holdings Limited, E.ON AG, Poyry Oyj and Royal Ahold NV. She is a Council Member of the Anglo Netherlands Society. She also serves as Non Executive Director at British American Tobacco PLC. |
| Mr Nicandro Durante
| Mr Nicandro Durante is Chief Executive on 1 March 2011 having been Chief Executive Designate since 1 September 2010. Nicandro was appointed an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer in 2008 having previously been Regional Director for Africa and Middle East and a member of the Management Board since 2006. He has also held senior general management roles in Brazil (including President of Souza Cruz) and in the UK and Hong Kong. Nicandro holds degrees in finance, economics and business administration and, having joined British American Tobacco in 1981, has wide experience in senior international finance and management roles within the Group. Mr Nicandro Durante also serves as Board Member at Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC. |
| Mr Andrew Gray
| Mr Androw Gray is Marketing Manager at British American Tobacco PLC since September 2014, Andrew was appointed Director, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa on 1 January 2011 having joined the Management Board as Director, Africa and Middle East in January 2008. He joined British American Tobacco 24 years ago and has held a variety of senior marketing and general management roles in South America (including President of Souza Cruz) and also in Central America, the Caribbean and Malaysia. |
| Mr Anthony Ruys
| Anthony was appointed a Director in 2006 and serves as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and as a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of the Rijksmuseum and JANIVO Holdings BV (NL) and is a Director of Lottomatica S.p.A. (Italy). Anthony worked at Unilever for nearly 20 years before joining Heineken in 1993 as a member of its Executive Board, becoming Vice Chairman in 1996 and Chairman in 2002, before retiring in 2005. In 2009 he was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Groups Indian associate, ITC Limited, and, also in 2009, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NV Luchthaven Schiphol (NL). Anthony Ruys retired as Non-Executive Director at British American Tobacco PLC in 30 April 2014 |
| Mark Read
| Mark Read was appointed a director in March 2005. He has been WPPs director of strategy since 2002 and is also chief executive of WPP Digital. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of HighCo and a director of CHI&Partners. He worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK. He is a trustee of the Natural History Museum Development Trust. |
| Mr Colin Day
| Colin Day was appointed a non-executive director of WPP in July 2005. He is the Chief Executive of Filtrona plc and a non-executive director of Amec. He was the group finance director of Reckitt Benckiser plc until April 2011, having been appointed to its board in September 2000. Previously he has been group finance director of Aegis Group plc and held a number of senior finance positions with the ABB Group plc and De La Rue Group plc. He was a non-executive director of Vero Group plc until 1998, Bell Group plc until 2004, Imperial Tobacco plc until February 2007, easyJet plc until September 2005 and Cadbury plc until 2010. |
| Mr Leif Johansson
| Mr Leif Johansson was born 1951. Master of Science in Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. Board Chairman: European Round Table of Industrialists and the International Advisory Board of the Nobel Foundation. Board Member: Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise and Ecolean AB. Principal work experience and other information: President and CEO of AB Volvo 1997-2011. Executive Vice President of AB Electrolux 1988-1991, President 1991-1994 and President and CEO of AB Electrolux 1994-1997. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Holds honorary Doctorates at Blekinge Institute of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. Awarded the large gold medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2011. He also serves as Non-Executive Chairman at AstraZeneca PLC. |
| Mr David Manning
| Mr David Manning is Board Member at BG Group PLC. David L Manning, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer since February 2006; Senior Vice President of Development from April 1992 to February 2006.David provides the Board with insight into international relations, gained through his distinguished career as a senior diplomat, and plays an important role as Chairman of the Sustainability Committee.David was a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for 35 years, serving in Warsaw, New Delhi, Paris, Moscow, Tel Aviv and Brussels. He retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2008 after four years as British ambassador to the USA. |
| Mr David Hallal
| Mr David Hallal is Chief Executive Officer of Alexion. Prior to becoming CEO,Mr David L. Hallal has been Senior Vice President, Global Commercial Operations since May 2010. From November 2008 to May 2010, he was Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations Americas, and from June 2006 until November 2008 he served as Senior Vice President, US Commercial Operations. Before joining Alexion, Mr. Hallal served as Vice President, Sales at OSI Eyetech from April 2004 until June 2006, where he led the U.S. launch of a first-in-class anti-VEGF therapy for age-related macular degeneration. Prior to OSI Eyetech, from 1992 until 2004, Mr. Hallal held various sales and marketing leadership positions at Amgen and Biogen Idec, where he was involved in multiple product launches in the areas of hematology, oncology, nephrology and immunology. Mr. Hallal received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Hampshire. |
| Mr Philip Yea
| Mr Philip Yea serves as a non-Executive director at Vodafone Group Plc since September 1, 2005. He has held a number of roles in the private equity industry, most notably at 3i Group plc where he was Chief Executive from 2004 until January 2009, and prior to 3i at Investcorp, where his main focus was on the turnaround and performance of portfolio investments. He is a former Finance Director of Diageo plc, the global drinks group, where as Finance Director of Guinness PLC he was closely involved in the creation of Diageo through Guinness's merger with GrandMet in 1997. Philip holds a number of advisory roles, including to HRH The Duke of York in his role as the UK's Special Representative for International Trade & Investment, as well as to PricewaterhouseCoopers in the UK and Bridges Ventures. He is also Chairman of the trustees of the British Heart Foundation and an independent director and trustee on the Board of the Francis Crick Institute. He has previously held non-executive roles at HBOS. Manchester United and The Rose Partnership, Executive Search. He is a Chairman at Mondi PLC. |
| Vittorio Amedeo Colao
| Mr. Vittorio Amedeo Colao was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Unilever in July 2015. He is also a member of Unilever's Compensation Committee and was also appointed as Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc after the AGM on 29 July 2008. He joined the Board in October 2006 as Chief Executive, Europe and Deputy Chief Executive. The early part of his career was spent in the Milan office of McKinsey & Company working on media, telecommunications and industrial goods, with additional responsibility for recruitment. In 1996 he joined Omnitel Pronto Italia, which subsequently became Vodafone Italy, and he was appointed Chief Executive in 1999. He was then appointed regional Chief Executive Officer, Southern Europe for Vodafone Group Plc in 2001, became a Member of the Board in 2002 and was also appointed to the role of Regional Chief Executive Officer for Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa for Vodafone in 2003. In 2004 he left Vodafone to join RCS MediaGroup, the leading Italian publishing company, where he was Chief Executive until he rejoined Vodafone as CEO, Europe. He sits on the International Advisory Board of Bocconi University, Italy and is a Member of the Steering Committee of the European Round Table of Industrialists. Mr. Colao received a Business Degree from Bocconi University, Italy and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. |
| Mr Samuel Jonah
| Samuel Jonah, aged 63, was appointed as Board member on 1 April 2009 at Vodafone Group PLC. He is Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital (Pty) Limited, an investment holding company in South Africa and serves on the boards of various public and private companies, including Range Resources Limited. He is also Chairman of Metropolitan Insurance Group Limited. Sam is an adviser to the Presidents of Nigeria and Togo and previously served as advisor to the Presidents of South Africa and Ghana. Sam was a non-executive director of the Standard Bank of South Africa from 2006-2012. He previously worked for Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited, becoming Chief Executive Officer in 1986, and was formerly Executive President of AngloGold Ashanti Limited, a director of Lonmin Plc and a member of the Advisory Council of the President of the African Development Bank. An Honorary Knighthood was conferred on him by Her Majesty the Queen in 2003 and in 2006 he was awarded Ghanas highest national award, the Companion of the Order of the Star. |
| Mr Luc Vandevelde
| Mr. Luc Vandevelde, aged 62, joined the Board in September 2003 and became senior independent director in July 2012. He is also Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. He is a director of Societe Generale and the Founder and Managing Director of Change Capital Partners LLP, a private equity fund. He was formerly Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carrefour SA, Chairman of Marks & Spencer Group p.l.and chairman of Majid Al Futtaim Ventures LLC and Chief Executive Officer of Promodes, and has held senior European and international roles with Kraft General Foods. |
| Mr Nicholas Read
| Mr Nick Read is Chief Financial Officer was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Vodafone Group PLC Board on 1 April 2014. Since joining Vodafone in 2001, Nick has held a variety of senior roles including CFO, CCO and CEO of Vodafone Limited, the UK operating company. In his role immediately prior to Group CFO, he was the Regional CEO for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific for five years and was a Board member of the listed companies of Vodacom, Safaricom, and Vodafone Qatar, our subsidiaries in India and Egypt, and our joint ventures, VHA in Australia and Indus Towers in India. Prior to joining Vodafone, he held senior global finance positions with United Business Media Plc and Federal Express Worldwide. Nick is a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Global Management Accountant, with a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance. |
| Mr Nicholas Land
| Nick Land, aged 65, joined as a board member at Vodafone Group PLC in 2006 and is Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee. Solely for the purposes of relevant legislation, he is the Board's appointed financial expert on the Audit and Risk Committee. In June 2006 he retired as Chairman of Ernst & Young LLP after a distinguished career spanning 36 years with the firm. He became an audit partner in 1978 and held a number of management appointments before becoming Managing Partner in 1992. He was appointed Chairman and joined the Global Executive Board of Ernst & Young Global LLP in 1995. He is a non-executive director of Alliance Boots GmbH, BBA Aviation plc and the Ashmore Group plc, and was appointed as a non-executive director of the Financial Reporting Council on 1 April 2011. He is an advisor to the board of SNR Denton LLP, a member of the Advisory Board of Alsbridge plc, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Farnham Castle, and is a member of the Finance and Audit Committees of the National Gallery. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Vodafone Foundation. |
| Ms Pauline van der Meer
| Ms Pauline Van der Meer Mohr is Board member at HSBC Holdings PLC since September 2015 . She was appointed to the Supervisory Board in March 2009. As of January 1, 2010, Ms. Van der Meer Mohr serves as President of the Executive Board of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Prior thereto she was managing partner of the Amstelbridge Group, Senior Executive Vice President at ABN AMRO Bank, Head of Group Human Resources at TNT N.V., and held several senior executive roles at the Royal/Dutch Shell Group of Companies in various areas. Currently, Ms. Van der Meer Mohr is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Royal DSM N.V. and Duisenberg School of Finance. |
| Ms Kathleen Casey
| Ms Kathleen Casey is Board Member at HSBC Holdings PLC. Ms Kathleen Casey was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2014. She has extensive financial regulatory policy experience. Between 2006 and 2011 she served as a Commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), acting as its principal representative in dialogues with the G20 Financial Stability Board and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions. Effective March 13, 2012, the Board appointed Kathleen Casey to serve as member of the Company’s Board. Ms. Casey has served as a Senior Advisor to Potomak Global Partners in Washington, D.C. since February 2012. Previously, Ms. Casey served as a Commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, completing her five-year term in August 2011. Prior to being appointed Commissioner, she spent 13 years on Capitol Hill. From 2003 to 2006, she served as Staff Director and Counsel of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. From 1996 to 2003, Ms. Casey served in a series of senior advisory roles to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), first as Legislative Director and then Chief of Staff. From 1994 to 1996, Ms. Casey served as Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief on the Senate Banking Committee and as Legislative Assistant from 1993 to 1994, during which she was responsible for handling tax, budget, and finance policy matters. Ms. Casey is a member of the State of Virginia and District of Columbia bars, is an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and a member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Advisory Council and the Federal Bar Association Securities Law Section Executive Council. |
| Ms Pamela Kirby
| Pamela Kirby, Appointed Non-Executive Director in March 2002 and Chairman of Ethics and Compliance Committee in April 2011. Pamela has extensive commercial and product development experience within the international pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. Her last executive position was Chief Executive of Quintiles Transnational Corp in the USA, having previously held senior positions in various pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca and F. Hoffmann- La Roche. She is now a Non-Executive Director of a number of international companies. Other Directorships: Non-Executive Chairman of Scynexis Inc.; Non-Executive Director of Informa plc; Non-Executive Director of Victrex plc; Non-Executive Member of the Board of Simmons & Simmons LLP. |
| Mr Malcolm Leslie Rifkind
| Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind, Nationality: British. Appointed May 2010. A Queen's Counsel. Served in Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, last position being that of Foreign Secretary. Non-Executive Director, Adam Smith International and Continental Farmers Group plc. |
