Vodafone Group Plc Annual Report 2012 60 Board of directors and Group management

Directors and senior management Our business is managed by our Board of directors (‘the Board’). Biographical details of the directors and senior management as at 22 May 2012 are as follows (with further information available at www..com/investor):

Chairman Chief Executive Gerard Kleisterlee Age: 65 Time on Board: 1 year 2 months Age: 50 Time on Board: 5 years 7 months Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Gerard has a proven track record as Member of Daimler AG Supervisory With demonstrated international Member of the International an international business leader with Board; non-executive director and business leadership skills, Vittorio has Advisory Board of Bocconi University, deep knowledge of the consumer member of the Audit Committee of deep telecoms experience having Italy; member of the Advisory Board electronics, healthcare and lifestyle ; Board of Directors worked in the sector for 20 years. of McKinsey & Company; member sectors; a wealth of experience of of . Career history: of the Advisory Council of Oxford operating in developed and emerging Committees: McKinsey & Company (1986 – 1996); Martin School. markets; and technology industry Nominations and Governance Omnitel Pronto Italia S.p.A. (which familiarity. (Chairman) became ) (1996 – 2004); Career history: Regional Chief Executive Officer, President/Chief Executive Officer and Southern for Vodafone Group Chairman of the Board of Management Plc (role later expanded to include of Koninklijke Electronics N.V. Middle East and Africa regions); from 2001 to 2011 following a career Chief Executive RCS MediaGroup with Philips spanning over 30 years. (2004 – 2006).

Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer,Europe region Andy Halford Michel Combes Age: 53 Time on Board: 6 years 10 months Age: 50 Time on Board: 2 years 11 months Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Skills and experience: member of the France Telecom Group A leading member of the finance Member of the Board of Representatives Michel is well-regarded for his breadth Strategic Committee; Chairman and profession, Andy has extensive of the Verizon Wireless partnership of experience across both fixed line Chief Executive Officer of TDF Group. experience as a finance director of UK, in the US; Chairman of the Hundred and mobile operations, with over Additional appointments: US and multinational companies. Group of Finance Directors in the UK. 25 years experience in the field of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Career history: telecommunications. Assystem SA in France; non-executive Group Finance Director at East Career history: director on the boards of ISS Equity Midlands Electricity Plc (1993 – 1998); France Telecom, External Networks A/S, ISS Holding A/S and ISS A/S. Financial Director, Vodafone Limited Division, later Industrial and International Michel will retire from the Board at the (the UK operating company) (1999 – Affairs Division; technical advisor to the conclusion of the Company’s AGM on 2001); Financial Director for Vodafone’s French Minister of Transport; Chairman 24 July 2012. Northern Europe, Middle East and and Chief Executive Officer of GlobeCast; Africa region (2001 – 2002); Chief Executive Vice President of Nouvelles Financial Officer of the Verizon Wireless Frontieres Group; Chief Executive partnership (2002 – 2005); Fellow of Officer of Assystem-Brime; Senior Vice the Institute of Chartered Accountants President of Group Finance and Chief in England and Wales. Financial Officer, France Telecom; Senior Executive Vice President, in charge of NExT Finance Balance & Value Creation;

Chief Technology Officer Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director Stephen Pusey Sir John Buchanan Age: 50 Time on Board: 2 years 11 months Age: 68 Time on Board: 9 years 1 month Skills and experience: Career history: Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Stephen has a wealth of international Executive Vice President and President, Sir John has many years of experience Chairman of Smith & Nephew plc; experience across both the wireline Nortel Networks Corporation’s EMEA and a track record of success gained Senior Independent Director of BHP and wireless industries and in business region; British Telecom. during a wide-ranging career at BP p.l.c. Billiton Plc; Chairman of ARM Holdings applications and solutions. spanning over 30 years. His financial plc; Chairman of the International and management skills in multinational Chamber of Commerce (UK); Chairman business provide further strength to of the Trustees for UK Christchurch the Board. Earthquake Appeal. Career history: Committees: Board of Directors and Chief Executive Nominations and Governance Officer of BP p.l.c. (1996 – 2002); Audit and Risk member of the Sir John will retire Accounting Standards Board; from the Board non-executive director of The Boots at the conclusion Company Plc (1997 – 2003); non- of the Company’s executive director of AstraZeneca PLC AGM on (2002 – 2010). 24 July 2012. Business review Performance Governance Financials Additional information 61 5 years 6 months 6 years 5 5 years 6 months 6 years 5 months 9 years 8

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Non-executive director Non-executive director Anthony Watson cbe Philip Yea Age: 67 Time on Board: 6 years 1 month Age: 57 Time on Board: 6 years 9 months Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Skills and experience: Additional appointments: Tony’s depth of experience in the Senior Independent Director of Philip brings to the Board his Advisor to HRH The Duke of York; City and in investment and asset Hammerson plc and Witan Investment considerable experience as a leader member of the Advisory Board to management are invaluable to Trust; non-executive director of Lloyds of public and private businesses (as PricewaterhouseCoopers in the the Board. Banking Group plc; member of the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive UK; member of the Advisory Board Career history: Board of the Shareholder Executive. Officer and as Chairman) and, as a of Bridges Ventures LLP; Chairman Hermes Pensions Management Ltd: Committees: investor, deploying of the Trustees of the British Heart Chief Investment Officer, later Chief Nominations and Governance his financial and strategic skills. He Foundation; independent director and Executive. Managing Director of Remuneration also has experience of business and trustee on the Board of The Francis AMP Asset Management plc; Chief financial turnarounds. Crick Institute; Chairman of The Rose Tony will step down from the Partnership, Executive Search. International Investment Officer, Remuneration Committee and join Career history: Citicorp Investment Management; the Audit and Risk Committee on Finance Director of Guinness PLC, Committees: Chairman of the Strategic Investment conclusion of the AGM on 24 July 2012. becoming Finance Director of Remuneration Board in Northern Ireland; member plc upon the merger of Guinness and Philip will join of the Advisory Board of Norges Bank Grand Metropolitan Public Limited the Nominations Investment Management; Chairman Company in 1997 (1993 – 1999); and Governance of Marks & Spencer Pension Trust and Managing Director at (1999 Committee on the Asian Infrastructure Fund; member – 2004); Chief Executive at Group conclusion of of the Financial Reporting Council. In plc (2005 – 2009); non-executive the AGM on January 2009, Tony was awarded a directorships of HBOS plc and 24 July 2012. CBE for his services to the economic Manchester United plc. redevelopment of Northern Ireland.

Executive Committee Chaired by Vittorio Colao, this committee focuses on our strategy, financial structure and planning, financial and competitive performance, succession planning, organisational development and Group-wide policies. The Executive Committee membership comprises the executive directors, details of whom are shown on page 60, and the senior managers who are listed below. Senior management Members of the Executive Committee who are not also executive directors are regarded as senior managers of the Company. Group Strategy and Business Development Director Group External Affairs Director Warren Finegold Matthew Kirk Age: 55 Age: 51 Time on Executive Committee: 6 years 2 months Years on Executive Committee: 3 years 3 months Career history: Career history: Executive in the Corporate Finance department of Hill Samuel & Co. Limited Group Director of External Relationships, Vodafone Group Plc; member of the (1981 – 1985); Executive Director Goldman Sachs International (1985 – 1995) British Diplomatic Service for more than 20 years; British Ambassador to Finland holding positions in New York and ; Managing Director of UBS Investment (2002 – 2006). Bank and most recently head of its Technology team in Europe (1995 – 2006).

Group Chief Commercial Officer Group General Counsel and Company Secretary Morten Lundal Rosemary Martin Age: 47 Age: 52 Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 7 months Time on Executive Committee: 2 years 3 months Career history: Career history: Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone for the Africa and Central Europe region; various Chief Executive Officer of the Practical Law Group (2008); Reuters Group senior positions with Nordic mobile operator, Telenor (1997 – 2004), including Chief Plc in various company secretarial and legal roles, with the last five years as Executive Officer for the Internet Division and Telenor Business Solutions, as well Group General Counsel and Company Secretary (1997 – 2008); partner with as the position of Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy; Chief Executive Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw (1990 – 1997). Officer of Telenor’s Malaysian subsidiary, DiGi Telecommunication (2004 – 2008).

Chief Executive Officer:Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific region Group Human Resources Director Ronald Schellekens Age: 47 Age: 48 Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 7 months Time on Executive Committee: 3 years 5 months Career history: Career history: Various senior roles in Vodafone Limited (the UK operating company), Executive Vice President Human Resources for Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s global including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Executive downstream business (2003 – 2008), various international senior human resources Officer (2002 – 2008); senior global finance positions with United Business Media roles at PepsiCo (1994 – 2003); human resources roles at AT&T Network Systems plc (1998 – 2002) and Federal Express Worldwide Inc. (1995 – 1998). in the Netherlands and Poland.