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Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F50 The Board of Directors and the Group Executive Committee
Arun Sarin, non-executive director, aged 47, has been a member of the Board
of directors since June 1999 and was Chief Executive Officer for the United
States and Asia Pacific region until he resigned on 15 April 2000, when he
became a non-executive director. He is a member of the Audit Committee.
He was a director of AirTouch from July 1995 and was President and Chief
Operating Officer from February 1997 to June 1999. He is a director of
The Gap, Inc., The Charles Schwab Corporation and Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sir David Scholey CBE, aged 66, has been a member of the Board of directors
since March 1998. He is a member of the Nominations Committee,
Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee. He is Chairman of Close
Brothers Group plc, a director of Anglo American plc and Chubb Corporation,
USA and is an advisor to UBS Warburg, Mitsubishi Corporation and IBCA-Fitch.
Sir David was formerly a director of the Bank of England and J Sainsbury Plc and
a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Jürgen Schrempp, aged 57, has been a member of the Board of directors
since May 2000 and is a member of the Nominations Committee and
Remuneration Committee. He has been Chairman of the Board of Management
of DaimlerChrysler AG since 1998. From 1995 until 1998 he was Chairman of
the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG. He serves on the supervisory
boards of Allianz AG and HypoVereinsbank AG and is a member of the Board of
Directors of the New York Stock Exchange and Sasol Ltd. He was a member of
the Supervisory Board of Mannesmann AG until May 2000.
Senior Management
Members of the Group Executive Committee who are not also executive directors
are regarded as senior managers of the Company. As at, and for the year ended,
31 March 2002, the Group Executive Committee comprised the executive
directors, details of whom are shown above, and the senior managers listed
below. Further details of the Group Executive Committee can also be found under
“Directors and Organisation” below.
Brian Clark, Chief Executive, Pacific Region, aged 53, took up this position on
joining Vodafone in 1997. He is based in Australia and was previously Managing
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Telkom SA Ltd, South Africa. He is also a
director of National Australia Bank Limited.
Alan Harper, Group Strategy Director, aged 45, joined Vodafone in 1995 as
Group Commercial Director and he subsequently became Managing Director of
Vodafone Ltd, the UK network operating company. He was appointed Group
Strategy Director in July 2000. Prior to joining Vodafone he held the post of
Business Strategy Director with Mercury One2One and senior roles with Unitel
and STC Telecoms. He is also a member of the Group Policy Committee.
Tomas Isaksson, Chief Executive, Americas Region, aged 47, was appointed to
this position on 1 January 2002. Previously, from February 2000, he was
President, Global Platform and Internet Services. Prior to that appointment he
was Chief Executive of Europolitan Holdings AB, Vodafone’s Swedish operating
company. In his current position, he continues to have overall responsibility for
Vodafone’s Global Platform and Internet Services activity. He is a member of the
Board of Representatives of the Verizon Wireless partnership.
Bill Keever, Chief Executive, Asia Region, aged 56, has responsibility for the
Group’s businesses in the Asia Region. He joined the telecommunications
industry in 1965, holding positions in Pacific Bell and subsequently AirTouch,
where he was an Executive Vice President of AirTouch Communications and
President of AirTouch International.
Jurgen von Kuczkowski, Chief Executive, Central Europe Region, aged 61,
was appointed to this position on 1 April 2001. He joined Mannesmann
Mobilfunk GmbH in October 1990 as Director of Sales and Distribution and was
Chairman of the Board of Management.
Stephen Scott, Company Secretary and Group Legal Director, aged 48, was
appointed to this position in the Group in 1991, prior to which he was employed
in the Racal Group legal department, having moved into industry in 1980 from
private law practice in London. He is a director of the Group’s pension trustee
company and insurance company and is a member of the Group Policy
Committee.
Phil Williams, Group Human Resources Director, aged 51, was appointed to
this position in the Group in 1989. He is a director of several Group companies,
a director of the Group’s pension trustee company and the Vodafone Group
Charitable Trust and is a member of the Group Policy Committee. Prior to joining
Vodafone, he was Personnel Director with Costain and Burmah Castrol.
The Board of Directors and the Group Executive Committee continued