Vodafone Group is getting a chairman, Gerard Kleisterlee who is currently president and CEO of Dutch electronics giant Philips. Superseding Sir John Bond to the role, Mr. Kleisterlee will be retiring from Philips on March 31st, 2011 and will be appointed as a non-executive director of Vodafone the following day.
Sir John Bond, who himself was the chairman for 5 years, said that the announcement is the “culmination of a succession planning process which the board initiated in February 2010.”
Kleisterlee has spent his entire career at Philips which he joined in 1974, becoming president and CEO in April 2001. In addition Philips, Kleisterlee has been a member of the Daimler AG Supervisory Board since April 2009, a non-executive director at Royal Dutch Shell since November 2010, and a member of the board at Dell since December 2010. He was named European Businessman of the year in 2007 by Fortune magazine…
[Via: MobileBusinessBriefing]