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The Board of Directors and the Group Executive Committee Vodafone Group Plc 49Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F
Directors and Senior Management
The business of the Company is managed by its Board of directors. The
Company’s Articles of Association provide that, until otherwise determined by
ordinary resolution, the number of directors will not be less than three.
Biographical details of the directors and senior management are as follows:
Directors
Non-Executive Chairman
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth, DL, aged 65, has been a member of the
Board of directors since January 1997. He is Chairman of the Nominations
Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He was Chairman of
Tesco Plc from 1985 to 1997, and has been a director of Enterprise Oil Plc,
Guinness Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc and Whitbread Plc. Lord MacLaurin
is Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board and of Health Clinic Plc and
is a member of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone AG.
Non-Executive Deputy Chairman
Paul Hazen, aged 60, has been a member of the Board of directors since June
1999 and became Deputy Chairman and the Board’s nominated senior non-
executive director in May 2000. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee.
He became a director of AirTouch in April 1993. In 2001, he retired as Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Wells Fargo & Company and its principal
subsidiary, Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Mr Hazen is also a director of Safeway Inc.,
Phelps Dodge Corporation, Xstrata AG and E.piphany and he is Chairman of
Accel-KKR.
Executive directors
Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive, aged 54, has been a member of the
Board of directors since August 1985 and the Chief Executive of the Company
since January 1997. He is a member of the Nominations Committee. He was the
Managing Director of Vodafone Limited, the UK network operator, from January
1985 to December 1996. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone
AG, a member of the Board of Representatives of the Verizon Wireless
partnership, and a non-executive director of China Mobile (Hong Kong) Limited.
Julian Horn-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer, aged 53, has been a
member of the Board of directors since June 1996. He was appointed Group
Chief Operating Officer on 1 April 2001, having been Chief Executive of
Vodafone’s Continental Europe businesses and a director of several of the
Group’s overseas operating companies. He is the Chairman of the Management
Board of Vodafone AG. He is also a non-executive director of Smiths Group Plc.
Peter Bamford, Chief Executive Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region,
aged 48, has been a member of the Board of directors since April 1998. He has
responsibility for the Group’s Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa businesses.
He was Managing Director of Vodafone UK Limited until April 2001. Before joining
Vodafone in 1997, Mr Bamford was a director of WH Smith Group Plc.
Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive, Southern Europe Region, aged 40, joined the
Board of directors on 1 April 2002. He has had responsibility for the Group’s
businesses in Southern Europe since April 2001. He spent the early part of his
career at McKinsey & Co, where he was a Partner, before joining Omnitel Pronto
Italia SpA as its Chief Operating Officer. In 1999, he became the Chief Executive
Officer of Omnitel Pronto Italia SpA (now operating as Omnitel Vodafone). He is
currently a member of the Aspen Institute.
Thomas Geitner, Chief Executive, Global Products and Services, aged 47, has
been a member of the Board of directors since May 2000. He is responsible for
Vodafone’s initiatives on brand, global products and global accounts and the
achievement of revenue and cost synergies between the operating companies.
Prior to joining Vodafone, he was a member of the Management Board of RWE
AG. He is Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Vodafone AG and a
non-executive board member of Singulus Technologies AG.
Ken Hydon, Financial Director, aged 57, has been a member of the Board of
directors since 1985. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management
Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the
Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a director of several subsidiaries
of the Company, including Vodafone International Holdings BV. Mr Hydon is
a member of the Supervisory Board of Vodafone AG and is a member of
the Board of Representatives of the Verizon Wireless partnership in the
United States.
Non-executive directors
Dr. Michael Boskin, aged 56, has been a member of the Board of directors
since June 1999 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit
Committee. He was a director of AirTouch from August 1996 to June 1999.
He has been a Professor of Economics at Stanford University since 1971 and
was Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from February
1989 until January 1993. He is also a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation,
First Health Group Corp. and Oracle Corporation.
Professor Sir Alec Broers, aged 63, is the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
University and President of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He first joined
the Board of directors in January 1998. He is a member of the Nominations
Committee and chairs the Group’s Charitable Trust. He spent many years with
IBM and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Electrical Engineers and
the Institute of Physics. He is also a Foreign Associate of the US National
Academy of Engineering.
Penny Hughes, aged 42, has been a member of the Board of directors since
September 1998, and took the chair of the Remuneration Committee in August
2001. She also chairs the Company’s pension trustee company. Mrs Hughes
has held posts with The Coca-Cola Company, Next Plc and Body Shop Plc and
is currently a non-executive director of Scandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB,
Trinity Mirror plc and Chairman of Web-Angel plc.
The Board of Directors and the Group Executive Committee