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94 Annual Report 2011
9Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board supervises the policies of the
executive 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
corporate body.
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 10,
Supervisory Board report, of this Annual Report.
J. van der Veer
Chairman
Chairman of Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection
Committee
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2009; first term expires in 2013.
Former Chief Executive and currently Non-executive Director of Royal
Dutch Shell and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ING Group.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Concertgebouw N.V.
Born 1947, Dutch** ***
J.M. Thompson •
Vice-Chairman and Secretary
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; third term expires in 2015
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
Born 1942, Canadian ** ***
C.J.A. van Lede
Chairman of Remuneration Committee
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; third term expires in 2015.
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.
Born 1942, Dutch**
E. Kist
Chairman of Audit Committee
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
Born 1944, Dutch*
J.J. Schiro
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 member of the
audit committee and Reva Medical as member of the Supervisory Board
and audit committee
Born 1946, American** ***
H. von Prondzynski
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2007; second term expires in 2015
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. Member of the
Supervisory Boards of various private and listed companies including
Qiagen and Hospira
Born 1949, German*
C.A. Poon
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
Born 1952, American*
J. Tai
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2011; first term expires in 2015
Former vice-chairman and CEO of DBS Group and DBS Bank Ltd and
former managing director at J.P. Morgan &Co. Incorporated. Currently a
member of the Board of Directors at NYSE Euronext, The Bank of China
Limited, Singapore Airlines and MasterCard incorporated. Also non-
executive chairman of privately-held Brookstone, Inc., and director of
privately-held Cassis International Pte.
Born 1950, American*
*member of the Audit Committee
** member of the Remuneration Committee
*** member of the Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection
Committee
•Mr Thompson has expressed his wish to relinquish his position as a member
of the Supervisory Board as of the closing of the 2012 General Meeting of
Shareholders.