Our Supervisory Board
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Antony Burgmans
(1947, Dutch)
Chairman
Initial appointment: 2006
Current term of office: 2014-2018
Former Chairman and CEO of Unilever N.V. and plc;
Non-executive director of BP plc;
Member of the Supervisory Boards of SHV Holdings N.V. and Jumbo Group Holding B.V.;
Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of TNT Express N.V.
- Chairman of the Nomination Committee as of May 1, 2014
- Member of the Remuneration Committee
Sari Baldauf
(1955, Finnish)
Initial appointment: 2012
Current term of office 2012-2016
Former member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Oyj;
Former non-executive Director of F-Secure Oyj;
Chairman of the Board of Fortun Oyj;
Supervisory Board member of Daimler AG and Deutsche Telekom.
- Chairman of the Remuneration Committee as of May 1, 2014
- Member of the Nomination Committee
Peggy Bruzelius
(1949, Swedish)
Initial appointment: 2007
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Former CEO of ABB Financial Services;
Former Executive Vice-President of SEB;
Non-executive Director of Axfood AB, Lundin Petroleum AB, Skandia Mutual Life Insurance and Diageo plc.;
Chairman of Lancelot Asset Management AB.
- Member of the Audit Committee
Byron E. Grote
(1948, American and British)
Initial appointment: 2014
Current term of office: 2014-2018
Non-Executive Director of Unilever N.V. and plc.;
Non-Executive Director of Anglo-American plc.;
Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered plc.;
Former Board member BP plc.
- Chairman of the Audit Committee as of April 22, 2015
Louis Hughes
(1949, American)
Initial appointment: 2006
Current term of office: 2014–2018
Former President and COO of Lockheed Martin;
Former Executive Vice-President of General Motors;
Chairman of InZeroSystems LLC;
Member of the Boards of Directors of ABB group and Alcatel-Lucent SA;
Executive Advisor of Wind Point Partners.
- Member of the Audit Committee
Dick Sluimers
(1953, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2015
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Extraordinary Councillor of State;
Member of the Supervisory Board of Atradius N.V. and NIBC Bank N.V.;
Trustee of the IFRS Foundation and Erasmus University Trust;
Board member of the Amsterdam Concert Hall Fund.
- Member of the Audit Committee
Ben Verwaayen
(1952, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2012
Current term of office: 2012–2016
Former CEO Alcatel-Lucent;
Former Chief Executive/Chairman of the Board’s Operating Committee of BT group;
Non-executive Director of Akamai Technologies Inc. and Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- Member of the Remuneration Committee
- Member of the Nomination Committee