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10 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 details on the
activities of the Supervisory Board, see chapter 11,
Supervisory Board report, of this Annual Report.
J-M. Hessels
1942, Dutch** ***
Chairman
Member of the Supervisory Board since 1999;
third term expires in 2011. Chairman of
Corporate Governance and Nomination &
Selection Committee
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.
E. Kist
1944, Dutch*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2004;
second term expires in 2012. Chairman of
Audit Committee
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
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 and
Regeneron
J.M. Thompson
1942, Canadian** ***
Vice-Chairman and Secretary
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003;
second term expires in 2011
Former Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of
Directors of IBM, and director of Hertz and Robert
Mondavi; currently member of the Boards of
Directors of Toronto Dominion Bank and Thomson
Reuters Corporation
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 Chairman of
the audit committee, PepsiCo as presiding director
of the Supervisory Board and Reva Medical as
member of the Supervisory Board and audit
committee
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. Member of the Supervisory Board of
Concertgebouw N.V.
C.J.A. van Lede
1942, Dutch**
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003;
second term expires in 2011. Chairman of
Remuneration Committee
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 and Senior Advisor JP Morgan Plc.
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 Boards of HTL Strefa
and Nobel Biocare Holding. Member of the
Supervisory Boards of various private and listed
companies including Qiagen and Hospira
* Member of the Audit Committee
** Member of the Remuneration
Committee
*** Member of the Corporate Governance
and Nomination & Selection Committee