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8.3 Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board supervises the policies of the
executive management (the Board of Management) and
the general course of affairs of Philips and advises the
executive management thereon. The Supervisory Board,
in the two-tier corporate structure under Dutch law, is a
separate and independent body from the Board of
Management. The Rules of Procedure of the Supervisory
Board are published on the Company’s website.
For more details on the activities of the Supervisory
Board, see the chapter Supervisory Board report.
J-M. Hessels
1942, Dutch** ***
Chairman
Member of the Supervisory Board since 1999;
third term expires in 2011
Former CEO of Royal Vendex KBB and currently
Chairman of the Board of NYSE Euronext Inc,
member of the Supervisory Board of Heineken and
Chairman of the Central Planning Committee,
Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
Sir Richard Greenbury
1936, British**
Member of the Supervisory Board since 1998;
third term expires in 2010
Former Chairman and CEO of Marks & Spencer and
former Director of Lloyds TSB, British Gas, ICI,
Zeneca and Electronics Boutique Plc
C.J.A. van Lede
1942, Dutch**
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003;
second term expires in 2011
Former Chairman of the Board of Management of
Akzo Nobel and currently Chairman of the
Supervisory Board of Heineken, member of the
Boards of AirFrance/KLM, Sara Lee Corporation, Air
Liquide, member of the Board of Directors of
INSEAD and Senior Advisor JP Morgan Plc
J.M. Thompson
1942, Canadian** ***
Vice-Chairman and Secretary
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003;
second term expires in 2011
Former Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of
IBM, and director of Hertz and Robert Mondavi;
currently Chairman of the Board of Toronto
Dominion Bank and a Director of Thomson Reuters
Corporation
C.A. Poon
1952, American
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2009;
first term expires in 2013
Former Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s Board
of Directors and Worldwide Chairman of the
Pharmaceuticals Group. Currently dean of Ohio
State University’s Fisher College of Business and
member of the Board of Directors of Prudential
J.J. Schiro
1946, American* ***
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2005;
second term expires in 2013
Former CEO of Zurich Financial Services and
Chairman of the Group Management Board. Also
serves on various boards of private and listed
companies including Goldman Sachs as member of
the Supervisory Board and PepsiCo as Chairman of
the Audit Committee and member of the
Supervisory Board
E. Kist
1944, Dutch*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2004;
second term expires in 2012
Former Chairman of the Executive Board of ING
Group and currently member of the Supervisory
Boards of the Dutch Central Bank, DSM, Moody’s
Investor Service and Stage Entertainment
J. van der Veer
1947, Dutch*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2009;
first term expires in 2013
Former Chief Executive and currently Non-
executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell; Vice-
Chairman and Senior Independent Director of
Unilever and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of ING
H. von Prondzynski
1949, German*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2007;
first term expires in 2011
Former member of the Corporate Executive
Committee of the F. Hofmann-La Roche Group and
former CEO of Roche Diagnostics, currently
chairman of the Supervisory Board of HTL Strefa and
member of the Supervisory Boards of various private
and listed companies including Qiagen and
Epigenomics
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* Member of the Audit Committee
** Member of the Remuneration Committee
*** Member of the Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection Committee