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Annual Report 2009
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| Supervisory Board| The Supervisory Board supervises the policies of the executive management (the Board of Management) and the general course of affairs of Philips and advises the executive management thereon. The Supervisory Board, in the two-tier corporate structure under Dutch law, is a separate and independent body from the Board of Management. The Rules of Procedure of the Supervisory Board are published on the Company’s website. |
 | J-M. Hessels1942, Dutch** ***
Chairman Member of the Supervisory Board since 1999; third term expires in 2011 Former CEO of Royal Vendex KBB and currently Chairman of the Board of NYSE Euronext Inc, member of the Supervisory Board of Heineken and Chairman of the Central Planning Committee, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis |
|  | Sir Richard Greenbury1936, British**
Member of the Supervisory Board since 1998; third term expires in 2010 Former Chairman and CEO of Marks & Spencer and former Director of Lloyds TSB, British Gas, ICI, Zeneca and Electronics Boutique Plc |
|  | C.J.A. van Lede1942, Dutch**
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; second term expires in 2011 Former Chairman of the Board of Management of Akzo Nobel and currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heineken, member of the Boards of AirFrance/KLM, Sara Lee Corporation, Air Liquide, member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD and Senior Advisor JP Morgan Plc |
|  | J.M. Thompson1942, Canadian** ***
Vice-Chairman and Secretary Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; second term expires in 2011 Former Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBM, and director of Hertz and Robert Mondavi; currently Chairman of the Board of Toronto Dominion Bank and a Director of Thomson Reuters Corporation |
|  | C.A. Poon1952, American
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2009; first term expires in 2013 Former Vice Chairman of Johnson & Johnson’s Board of Directors and Worldwide Chairman of the Pharmaceuticals Group. Currently dean of Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business and member of the Board of Directors of Prudential |
|  | J.J. Schiro1946, American* ***
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2005; second term expires in 2013 Former CEO of Zurich Financial Services and Chairman of the Group Management Board. Also serves on various boards of private and listed companies including Goldman Sachs as member of the Supervisory Board and PepsiCo as Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Supervisory Board |
|  | E. Kist1944, Dutch*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2004; second term expires in 2012 Former Chairman of the Executive Board of ING Group and currently member of the Supervisory Boards of the Dutch Central Bank, DSM, Moody’s Investor Service and Stage Entertainment |
|  | J. van der Veer1947, Dutch*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2009; first term expires in 2013 Former Chief Executive and currently Non-executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell; Vice-Chairman and Senior Independent Director of Unilever and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ING |
|  | H. von Prondzynski1949, German*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2007; first term expires in 2011 Former member of the Corporate Executive Committee of the F. Hofmann-La Roche Group and former CEO of Roche Diagnostics, currently chairman of the Supervisory Board of HTL Strefa and member of the Supervisory Boards of various private and listed companies including Qiagen and Epigenomics |
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| For more details on the activities of the Supervisory Board, see the chapter Supervisory Board report. |
* Member of the Audit Committee
** Member of the Remuneration Committee
*** Member of the Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection Committee |
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Our Group performance
Pierre-Jean Sivignon, CFO
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This is an interactive electronic version of the Philips Annual Report 2009 and also contains certain information in summarized form. The contents of this version are qualified in their entirety by reference to the printed version of the Philips Annual Report 2009. The printed version is available as a PDF file on this website.
Information about: forward-looking statements, third-party market share data, fair value information, IFRS basis of presentation, use of non-GAAP information, statutory financial statements and management report, reclassifications and analysis of 2008 compared to 2007.
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