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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.
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J-M. Hessels
1942, Dutch** ***
ChairmanMember 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
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Sir Richard Greenbury
1936, 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
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Prof. K.A.L.M. van Miert
1942, Belgian*
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2000; third term expires in 2012
Former Vice-President of the European Commission and former President of Nyenrode University, member of the Supervisory Boards
of RWE, Agfa Gevaert, De Persgroep, Munich Re, Anglo American, Vivendi Universal, Sibelco and Solvay and member of the Advisory
Board of Goldman Sachs, Uni-Credito and Eli Lilly
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C.J.A. van Lede
1942, 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
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J.M. Thompson
1942, Canadian** ***
Vice-Chairman and SecretaryMember 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
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E. Kist
1944, 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
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J.J. Schiro
1946, American* ***
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2005; first term expires in 2009
CEO of Zurich Financial Services and Chairman of the Group Management Board. Also serves on various boards of private and
listed companies including PepsiCo as Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Supervisory Board
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Wong Ngit Liong
1941, Singaporean
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2005; first term expires in 2009
Chairman and CEO of the Venture Group of companies. Also a board member of DBS Bank and DBS Group Holdings Ltd, Chairman of
the National University of Singapore Board of Trustee, and a member of the Research Innovation and Enterprise Council
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H. von Prondzynski
1949, 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
member of the Supervisory Board of Qiagen and Epigenomic and chairman of BB Medtech AG
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| For more details on the activities of the Supervisory Board, see the chapter Supervisory Board report of this Annual Report. |
* Member of the Audit Committee
** Member of the Remuneration Committee
*** Member of the Corporate Governancee and Nomination & Selection Committee |
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This is an interactive electronic version of the Philips Annual Report 2008 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 2008. 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, US GAAP basis of presentation, use of non-US GAAP information, statutory financial statements and management report, revision and reclassifications and analysis of 2007 compared to 2006.
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