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Board of Directors
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Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson is Chairman of our Board of Directors since May 24, 2012. He currently also serves as an independent board member of Danske Bank and is member of JPMorgan European Advisory Council. Mr. Jansson began his career with ICA, a leading Swedish food retailer, holding positions of increasing responsibility over a period of more than 20 years and serving as President of ICA Detaljhandel and Deputy CEO and Chairman of the Group from 1990 to 1994. He then served as CEO of Catena/Bilia (1994 to 1999) and Karl Fazor Oy (1999 to 2000). From 2000 to 2005 Mr. Jansson held the position of CEO with Axfood, a publicly-traded Swedish food retailer. From 2005 to 2006 Mr. Jansson served as President and CEO of Axel Johnson AB, a family owned conglomerate of distribution and services companies. Mr. Jansson was President and CEO of SAS, the Scandinavian airline company, from 2006 to 2010. He also previously has served as a director of Axfood, Mekonomen, Swedish Match and Hufvudstaden. Mr. Jansson studied economical history and sociology at the University of Örebro. |
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Pierre-Olivier Beckers
Mr. Beckers has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Delhaize Group since January 1, 1999. He began working in the food retail industry in 1982 as a store manager for a bakery chain in Belgium. Mr. Beckers joined us in 1983, to work initially three years in our U.S. operations 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 Director 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. In 2009, he was named Belgium’s BEL 20 CEO of the year by the Belgian newspapers Le Soir and De Standaard. Until June 2010, he was Co-Chairman of the Consumer Good Forum, a global association of leading consumer goods retailers and manufacturers. Previously, Mr. Beckers served as chairman of the CIES, the Food Business Forum, from 2002 to 2004 and again from July 2008 until its merger and transformation into the Consumer Goods Forum. Mr. Beckers serves on the Board of Directors of The Consumer Goods Forum. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute and is Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of FEB/VBO, the Belgian Employers Federation. He is a member of Guberna and, until 2010, the Belgian Commission on Corporate Governance. He is President of the BOIC (Belgian Olympic Interfederal Committee) since December 2004, with a current term expiring in 2013. He also was elected to the International Olympic Committee in July 2012. Mr. Beckers earned a Master’s degree in applied economics at I.A.G., Louvain-La-Neuve and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
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Claire Babrowski
Ms. Babrowski serves on the Board of Directors of Pier 1 Imports, Inc. since March 2011. She is a retired retail executive. 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. From 2007 until 2010, Ms. Babrowski was the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Toys “R” Us, a specialty toy retailer operating more than 1,500 stores throughout the world. In 1998, she received the Emerging Leader Award from the U.S. Women’s Service Forum. Ms. Babrowski holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina. |
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Bill McEwan
Mr. McEwan is a Canadian grocery and consumer packaged goods executive. He began his career at Ferreo’s Ltd, Super Valu Stores at the age of 15, spending 13 years with the company. . Between 1989 and 2000, Mr. McEwan held a variety of progressively senior marketing and merchandising roles in the consumer packaged goods industry with Coca-Cola Limited and in grocery retail with The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) both in Canada and in the United States. He served as President of A&P’s Canadian operations before his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company’s US Atlantic Region, the position he held immediately prior to joining Sobeys Inc. He served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of its parent company, Empire Company Limited until June 2012. In November, 2005 Mr. McEwan was presented the Golden Pencil Award, The Food Industry Association of Canada’s highest distinction. In May 2006, the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors presented Mr. McEwan with the Robert Beaudry Award of Excellence for leadership in the grocery industry. In June 2012, Mr. McEwan was honoured by the Retail Counsil of Canada with its Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing a career of outstanding leadership, business success and community service. |
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Jean-Pierre Hansen
Mr. Hansen is member of the Executive Committee of GDF Suez and Chairman of its Energy Policy Committee. From 1992 to March 1999 and from January 2005 to April 2010, Mr. Hansen served as Chief Executive Officer of Electrabel and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Electrabel from 1999 till 2004. Mr. Hansen was Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Suez Group from 2003 till 2008. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Electrabel, Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille, KBC and SNCB Logistics. He was Vice-President of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) and a Member of the Council of Regency of the National Bank of Belgium. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and lectures in economics at the Université Catholique Louvain and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is a Visiting Scholar at MIT (Cambridge, US). Mr. Hansen holds a degree in Civil Engineering (Liège), a Ph. D. in Engineering (Paris VI) and a Master’s degree in Economics (Paris II). |
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Jacques de Vaucleroy
Mr. de Vaucleroy is CEO of the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe business unit of AXA since March 2010. He is also in charge of AXA Bank Europe. Since April 2010, he has been a member of the AXA Management Committee. On January 1, 2011, he assumed global responsibility for the Group’s AXA Life and Savings and Health businesses. Jacques de Vaucleroy has made most of his career within the ING Group, where he was a member of the Executive Board of ING Group and CEO of ING Insurance and Investment Management Europe. He has extensive experience in the banking and insurance and asset management business, both in Europe and in the U.S. Jacques de Vaucleroy holds a law degree (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and a Master in Business Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium). |
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Hugh G. Farrington
Following 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 our Executive Vice President and member of our Board of Directors. In 2003, Mr. Farrington left the Board of Directors and resigned from his executive functions within our company. He rejoined the Board as a director in 2005. Mr. Farrington holds a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and a Master of Arts in teaching from the University of New Hampshire. |
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Shari L. Ballard
Ms. Ballard has been President, International - Enterprise Executive Vice President of Best Buy Co., Inc. since January 2012. Ms. Ballard began her career with Best Buy in 1993 as an assistant store manager, and in 1997 joined its Retail Change Implementation Team. She then moved to Best Buy’s human resources department, ultimately assuming the role of Executive Vice president of Human Resources and Legal in 2004. She also served as Executive Vice President, Retail Channel Management of Best Buy from 2007 until 2010 and as Co-President of the Americas and Executive Vice President from 2010 until January 2012. Ms. Ballard graduated from the University of Michigan - Flint with a Bachelors Degree in Social Work. |
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Didier Smits
Didier Smits received a Master's degree in economic and financial sciences ( I.C.H.E.C., 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. |
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Jack L. Stahl
Mr. Stahl 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 Group President of Coca-Cola Americas and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Stahl started his professional career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Stahl served on the Board of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough until December 2009 and currently serves on the Board of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Sacks, Coty and as a member of the US Board of Advisors of CVC Capital Partners Advisory Inc. He is also a Board member of The Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Mr. Stahl received his undergraduate degree from Emory University and holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Baron Vansteenkiste
Baron Vansteenkiste is President of the Board of the Belgian company Sioen and Vice President of the Board of Recticel. Baron Vansteenkiste is also a member of the Board of the Belgian company Spector Photo Group. Baron Vansteenkiste is Honorary Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies. Baron Vansteekiste was Chief Executive Officer of Recticel until April 1, 2010. Baron Vansteenkiste earned his degree in civil engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. |
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