Supervisory Board

Mr R. Zwartendijk (1939)
Dutch
Chairman
Appointed: 29 January 1999
Reappointed at the AGM of 26 April 2007 for a third and last term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2011

Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Blokker Holding B.V. and SNS Reaal N.V. and member of the Supervisory Board of Randstad Holding N.V.

Mr R. Zwartendijk studied Economics at the University of Manchester in the UK. He was a member of the Executive Board of Ahold from 1981 until his retirement in 1999. Also, he was the CEO of Ahold USA from 1989 to 1999.
Mr R. Zwartendijk worked with Unilever from 1963 to 1968 (Marketing), Polaroid International from 1968 to 1970 (Marketing) and Mölnlycke from 1970 to 1977 (General Manager in the Netherlands and France) and joined Ahold in 1977 as Division Manager.


Mr J.M. de Jong (1945)
Dutch
Vice-chairman
Appointed: 28 August 2003
Reappointed at the AGM of 26 April 2007 for a second term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2011

Among other positions Vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Heineken N.V., member of the Supervisory Boards of Aon Groep Nederland B.V., KBC N.V. (Belgium), Cement Roadstone Holdings plc (Ireland) and Kredietbank S.A. Luxembourgeoise (Luxembourg).

Mr J.M. de Jong studied Economics in Amsterdam and obtained an MBA degree from INSEAD. He started his career in 1970 at ABN N.V., subsequently ABN Amro Bank N.V., where he joined the Managing Board in 1989 till the end of 2001.

Mr Y. Barbieux (1938)
French
Appointed: 24 June 1998
Reappointed at the AGM of 18 May 2006 for a third and last term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2010

Chairman of the Board of Elsa Consultants S.A. (Switzerland), member of the Boards of Micro Consulting (Switzerland), ARC International (France), Claranor (France) and Voluntis S.A. (France).

Mr Y. Barbieux graduated as an engineer from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He held various management functions with Nestlé.


Mr R.J. Frohn (1960)
Dutch
Appointed: 21 April 2009 for a first term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2013

Member of the Board of Management of AkzoNobel N.V.

Mr R.J. Frohn obtained a Master’s degree in Business Economics from the Groningen University. He joined the Executive Board of AkzoNobel as Chief Financial Officer in 2004. Since 1 May 2008 Mr R.J. Frohn is the Executive Board member responsible for the Specialty Chemicals business.


Mr A. Puri (1953)
American
Appointed: 21 April 2009 for a first term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2013

Independent Non-Executive Director of Britannia Industries Ltd. (India)

Mr A. Puri studied at the University of Maryland, where he obtained a PhD in Food Science, and at the Crummer Business School, Rollins College, in the USA, where he obtained an MBA in Marketing. He joined the Coca-Cola Company in 1981, where he assumed various management positions until 2003. From 2003 till 2007 he was a member of the Executive Board of Koninklijke Numico N.V. as President R&D and Product Integrity (Food Safety and Quality). During that period he was a Non-Executive Board member of PT Sari Husada Tbk (Indonesia) from 2004 till 2007.


Mr J.A.J. Vink (1947)
Dutch
Appointed: 19 May 2005
Reappointed at the AGM of 21 April 2009 for a second term of four years, expiring at the AGM of 2013

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Aegon Nederland N.V., Vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of Vion N.V., member of the Supervisory Board of Cargill B.V. and Chairman of the Stichting Preferente Aandelen of Macintosh Retail Group N.V.

Mr J.A.J. Vink studied Organic Chemistry at the Leiden University and in 1972 obtained a PhD in Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In 1974 he joined the Wessanen food company and moved to CSM in 1983. On 1 May 2005, after a career of 22 years with CSM, he left this food company, where he was Chairman of the Executive Board from 1997 to 2005.

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