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RBS Group • Annual Report and Accounts 2006
Governance
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10. Bill Friedrich* (age 58)
A
Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Bill Friedrich
is currently deputy chief executive of BG Group
plc. He previously served as general counsel for
British Gas plc and is a former partner of Shearman
& Sterling where he practised as a general corporate
lawyer working for several of the world's leading
financial institutions.
13. Janis Kong* (age 56) OBE, DUniv
R
Appointed to the Board in January 2006, Janis Kong
was formerly executive chairman of Heathrow
Airport Limited, chairman of Heathrow Express
Limited and a director of BAA plc. She is currently
a non-executive director of Kingfisher plc and
Portmeirion Group plc. She is also chairman of
Forum for the Future and a member of the board of
Visit Britain.
16. Bob Scott* (age 65) CBE, FCIBS
C, N, R (Chairman)
Appointed to the Board in January 2001, Bob Scott
is an Australian national. He is the senior independent
director. He has many years’ experience in the
international insurance business and played a
leading role in the consolidation of the UK insurance
industry. He is a former group chief executive of
CGNU plc (now Aviva plc) and former chairman of
the board of the Association of British Insurers. He
is chairman of Yell Group plc and a non-executive
director of Swiss Reinsurance Company (Zurich)
and Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. He is also
a trustee of the Crimestoppers Trust, an adviser to
Duke Street Capital Private Equity and a board
member of Pension Insurance Corporation
Holdings LLP.
11. Archie Hunter* (age 63)
A (Chairman), C, N
Appointed to the Board in September 2004, Archie
Hunter is a Chartered Accountant. He was Scottish
senior partner of KPMG between 1992 and 1999
and President of The Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Scotland in 1997/1998. He has
extensive professional experience in the UK and
North and South America. He is currently chairman
of Macfarlane Group plc, a director of Edinburgh
US Tracker Trust plc, Convenor of Court at the
University of Strathclyde and a governor of the
Beatson Cancer Research Institute.
14. Joe MacHale* (age 55)
A
Appointed to the Board in September 2004, Joe
MacHale is currently the senior independent
director and chairman of the audit committee of
Morgan Crucible plc, a non-executive director and
chairman of the remuneration committee of Brit
Insurance Holdings plc, and a trustee of MacMillan
Cancer Support. He held a number of senior
executive positions with J P Morgan between 1979
and 2001 and was latterly chief executive of J P
Morgan Europe, Middle East and Africa Region.
17. Peter Sutherland* (age 60) KCMG
C, N, R
Appointed to the Board in January 2001, Peter
Sutherland is an Irish national. He is a former
attorney general of Ireland and from 1985 to 1989
was the European Commissioner responsible for
competition policy. He is chairman of BP p.l.c. and
Goldman Sachs International. He was formerly
chairman of Allied Irish Bank and director general of
GATT and its successor, the World Trade Organisation.
12. Charles ‘Bud’ Koch (age 60)
Appointed to the Board in September 2004, Bud
Koch is an American national. He has extensive
professional experience in the USA and is currently
chairman of the board of John Carroll University
and a trustee of Case Western Reserve University.
He was chairman, president and chief executive
officer of Charter One Financial, Inc. and its wholly
owned subsidiary, Charter One Bank, N.A. between
1973 and 2004. He is also a director of Assurant, Inc.
15. Sir Steve Robson* (age 63)
A
Appointed to the Board in July 2001, Sir Steve
is a former senior UK civil servant, who had
responsibility for a wide variety of Treasury matters.
His early career included the post of private
secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and
secondment to ICFC (now 3i). He was also a
second permanent secretary of HM Treasury,
where he was managing director of the Finance
and Regulation Directorate. He is a non-executive
director of JP Morgan Cazenove Holdings, Xstrata
Plc and Partnerships UK plc, and a member of the
Chairman’s Advisory Committee of KPMG.
Group Secretary and General Counsel
18. Miller McLean (age 57) FCIBS
C
Miller McLean was appointed Group Secretary in
August 1994. He is a trustee of the Industry and
Parliament Trust, non-executive chairman of The
Whitehall and Industry Group and director of
The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange.
Amember of the Audit Committee
Cmember of the Chairman’s Advisory Group
Nmember of the Nominations Committee
Rmember of the Remuneration Committee
*independent non-executive director