Our Supervisory Board
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Antony Burgmans
(1947, Dutch)
Chairman
Initial appointment: 2006
Current term of office: 2014-2018
Member of the Supervisory Board of Jumbo Group Holding B.V.;
Former Chairman and CEO of Unilever N.V. and plc.;
Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of TNT Express N.V.;
Former non-executive Director BP plc.;
Former member of the Supervisory Board of SHV Holdings N.V.
Peggy Bruzelius
(1949, Swedish)
Initial appointment: 2007
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Non-executive Director of Lundin Petroleum AB, Skandia Mutual Life Insurance and Diageo plc.;
Chairman of Lancelot Asset Management AB
Former CEO of ABB Financial Services;
Former Executive Vice-President of SEB;
Former non-executive Director of Axfood A.B.
Sue Clark*
(1964, British)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Non-executive Director of Britvic plc.;
Non-executive Director of Bakkavor Group plc.;
Non-executive Director of Tulchan Communications LLP;
Former Managing Director Europe SABMiller plc.;
Former Director Corporate Affairs Railtrack plc. and Scottish Power plc.
Byron E. Grote
(1948, American and British)
Initial appointment: 2014
Current term of office: 2014-2018
Non-Executive Director of Anglo-American plc., Standard Chartered plc. and Tesco plc;
Former non-executive Director of Unilever N.V. and plc.;
Former Board member BP plc.
Louis Hughes
(1949, American)
Initial appointment: 2006
Current term of office: 2014–2018
Member of the Boards of Directors of ABB Group and Nokia Corporation;
Executive Advisor of Wind Point Partners;
Chairman of InZeroSystems LLC;
Former President and COO of Lockheed Martin;
Former Executive Vice-President of General Motors.
Michiel Jaski*
(1959, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Member of the Supervisory Board of Synbra Holding B.V.;
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UNICA Group B.V.;
Former CEO of OFFICEFIRST Immobilien A.G.;
Former CEO of Grontmij N.V.;
Former member of the Executive Board of ARCADIS N.V.;
Former VP at Shell.
Pamela Kirby
(1953, British)
Initial appointment: 2016
Current term of office: 2016-2020
Non-executive Director at Reckitt Benckiser plc.;
Non-executive Director at Hikma Pharmaceuticals plc.;
Non-executive Director at DCC plc.;
Senior Independent Director Victrex plc.
Dick Sluimers
(1953, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2015
Current term of office: 2015-2019
Member of the Supervisory Boards of Atradius N.V., NIBC Bank N.V., and Euronext N.V.;
Member of the Board of Directors of FWD Group Limited;
Trustee of the Erasmus University Trust;
Member of the Board of Governors of the State Academy of Finance and Economics;
Former CEO of APG Group.
Patrick Thomas*
(1957, British)
Initial appointment: 2017
Current term of office: 2017-2021
Chairman and CEO of Covestro A.G.;
Former Chairman and CEO of Bayer MaterialScience A.G.;
Former non-executive Director of BG Group plc.;
Former President of Specialties, Huntsman International LLC;
Former CEO Polyurethanes division of ICI plc.
Ben Verwaayen
(1952, Dutch)
Initial appointment: 2012
Current term of office: 2016-2020
Non-executive Director of Akamai Technologies Inc. and Bharti Airtel Ltd.;
Non-executive Director of Ofcom;
Former CEO Alcatel-Lucent;
Former Chief Executive/Chairman of the Board’s Operating Committee of BT Group.
Sari Baldauf (1955, Finnish); initial appointment 2012; term of office 2016-2017; resigned December 1, 2017