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Georges Jacobs
Georges Jacobs has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delhaize Group since January 1, 2005. He started his career as an economist with the IMF in Washington in 1966. He joined the UCB Group (a biopharmaceutical group based in Belgium) in 1970 and has been Chairman of its Executive Committee from 1987 until the end of 2004. Mr. Jacobs serves on the Board of Directors of Belgacom and Brussels Airlines. He has been President of BUSINESSEUROPE (formerly UNICE, Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) between 1998 and 2003. He is member of the Management Committee and Honorary Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies. Mr. Jacobs is a Doctor at Laws (UCL, Belgium), holds a Master's degree in Economic Sciences (UCL, Belgium), and a Master's degree in Economics (University of California, Berkeley, US).

Pierre-Olivier Beckers
Pierre-Olivier Beckers has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Delhaize Group since January 1, 1999. Mr. Beckers earned a Master’s degree in applied economics at I.A.G., Louvain-La-Neuve and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began working in the food retail industry in 1982 as a store manager for a bakery chain in Belgium. Mr. Beckers joined Delhaize Group in 1983, to work initially for three years in the U.S. operations of Delhaize Group as a store manager. After his return to Belgium, he broadened his retail experience as a buyer, director of purchasing, member of the Executive Committee and Executive Vice President in charge of international activities. In January 2000, Mr. Beckers was named Manager of the Year by the leading Belgian business magazine Trends/Tendances. He is on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute and of CIES – The Food Business Forum (an international food business network serving as interface between more than 400 retailers and suppliers from 50 countries). In 2002-2004, he served as Chairman of CIES, and will again serve as Chairman of CIES in 2008-2010. In December 2004, he was elected to a four-year term as President of the BOIC (Belgian Olympic Committee). Mr. Beckers is also Board member of Guberna and The Belgian Corporate Governance Committee.

Claire Babrowski Claire Babrowski
Claire Babrowski is, since June 2007, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Toys "R" Us, a specialty toy retailer operating more than 1,500 stores throughout the world. She started her career spending 30 years at McDonald's Corporation, where her last position was Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Restaurant Operations Officer. From 2005 to 2006, she worked for RadioShack, serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and then President, Chief Operating Officer and acting Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Babrowski holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina. In 1998, she received the Emerging Leader Award from the U.S. Women's Service Forum. She is a member of the "Committee of 200", a professional U.S. organization of preeminent women entrepreneurs and corporate leaders

François Cornélis François Cornélis
Mr. Cornélis (58) has been Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of Total and President of its chemicals division since 2003. He joined PetroFina in 1973 and was appointed CEO and Managing Director of PetroFina in 1990. He became Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee first of Totalfina after the merger of Total with PetroFina in 1999, and in 2000 of TotalFinaElf (renamed Total in 2003) after the merger with Elf. Mr. Cornélis is Chairman of the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) and the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium and a member of the Global Advisory Council of The Conference Board and Chairman of its European Steering Committee. He is also Director of Sofina. Mr. Cornélis holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.

Arnoud de Pret Roose de Calesberg
Arnoud de Pret Roose de Calesberg was from 1991 to 2000 a member of the Executive Committee and Chief Financial Officer of the Belgian metals company Umicore. Previously he was a member of the Executive Committee and Chief Financial Officer of the Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB. Currently, Arnoud de Pret is, among others, member of the Board of Directors of the brewery company Inbev, Umicore, SIBELCO and UCB. Arnoud de Pret holds a Commercial Engineer's degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.


Jacques de Vaucleroy
Jacques de Vaucleroy is member of the Executive Board of ING Group and CEO of ING Insurance Europe. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector. Jacques de Vaucleroy obtained a law degree (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and a Master in Business Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium).





Hugh Farrington
After a retail management career starting in 1968 at Hannaford, a U.S. subsidiary of Delhaize Group, Mr. Farrington served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hannaford from 1992 to 2001. In 2000, he was appointed as Vice Chairman of Delhaize America, and in 2001, he became Executive Vice President of Delhaize Group and member of its Board of Directors. In 2003, Mr. Farrington left the Board of Directors and resigned from his executive functions within the Group. Mr. Farrington holds a Bachelors degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of New Hampshire.  

Richard Goblet d'Alviella
 Richard Goblet d'Alviella has been the Chief Executive Officer of Sofina S.A., a Belgian financial holding company, since 1989. Mr. Goblet d'Alviella is a member of the board of directors of Sofina as well as a number of the companies in which Sofina has interests or is affiliated, such as Suez, Eurazeo, Danone and Caledonia Investments. Prior to joining Sofina, Mr. Goblet d'Alviella was a Managing Director of the Paine Webber Group and he has a 15-year background in international investment banking in London and New York. Mr. Goblet d'Alviella holds a Commercial Engineer's degree from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, and a Master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. Mr. Goblet d'Alviella was elected to the Board of Directors of Delhaize Group in 2001.

Robert J. Murray
Robert J. Murray has been Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of New England Business Service, Inc. from 1995 to 2004. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Murray was a member of the Board of Directors of Hannaford. Mr. Murray retired from The Gillette Company in 1995, having been with Gillette for more than 34 years. From 1991 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Murray was Executive Vice President, North Atlantic Group of Gillette. Mr. Murray is a director of LoJack Corporation, The Hannover Insurance Group, Tupperware Brands and the IDEXX Corp. Mr. Murray is a graduate of Boston College and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University. Mr. Murray was elected to the Board of Directors of Delhaize Group in 2001. 

William Roper
 William Roper is Dean of the UNC (University of North Carolina) School of Medicine and CEO of the UNC Health Care System. Until March 2004, he was Dean of the UNC School of Public Health at Chapel Hill. He is also a professor of health policy and administration in the School of Public Health, and a professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine at UNC-CH. Before joining UNC-CH in 1997, Dr. Roper was senior vice president of Prudential HealthCare. Prior to that, he was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and served on the senior White House staff. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and his Masters in Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical Center.

Didier Smits
Didier Smits received a Master's degree in economic and financial sciences at I.C.H.E.C. in Brussels. In 1996, he was elected Director of Delhaize Group and he still serves as a non-executive director of Delhaize Group. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Smits was a Manager at Advanced Technics Company. In 1991, Mr. Smits became Managing Director of Papeteries Aubry SPRL. 


 

Jack Stahl
Mr. Stahl (1953) last served in the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of cosmetics company Revlon from 2002 until his retirement in September 2006. Prior to joining Revlon, Mr. Stahl had a 22-year career as an executive with the Coca Cola Company culminating in the role of President and Chief Operating Officer. He also served as Chief Financial Officer and Group President of Coca Cola North America. Mr. Stahl started his professional career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Stahl currently serves on the Boards of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough and the soft drinks company Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. He is also a Board member of several non-profit organizations such as The Boys and Girls Clubs of America and The United Negro College Fund.



Luc Vansteenkiste
Luc Vansteenkiste is Chief Executive Officer of the Belgian foam production company Recticel. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Belgian photo-finishing company Spector Photo Group and of Telindus Group and member of the Board of the Belgian companies Sioen, Ter Beke Vleeswaren, Compagnie du Bois Sauvage and Fortis Bank. Mr. Vansteenkiste is Board member of Guberna. Mr. Vansteenkiste earned his degree in civil engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.



 
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