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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. For details on the activities of the Supervisory Board, see Supervisory Board report.
* Member of the Audit Committee
** Member of the Remuneration Committee
*** Member of the Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection Committee

J-M. Hessels

1942, Dutch** ***

Chairman
Member of the Supervisory Board since 1999; third term expires in 2011. Chairman of Corporate Governance and Nomination & Selection Committee
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.
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E. Kist

1944, Dutch*

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2004; second term expires in 2012. Chairman of Audit Committee
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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C.A. Poon

1952, 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 and Regeneron
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J.M. Thompson

1942, Canadian** ***

Vice-Chairman and Secretary
Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; second term expires in 2011
Former Executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of IBM, and director of Hertz and Robert Mondavi; currently member of the Boards of Directors of Toronto Dominion Bank and Thomson Reuters Corporation
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J.J. Schiro

1946, 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 Chairman of the audit committee, PepsiCo as presiding director of the Supervisory Board and Reva Medical as member of the Supervisory Board and audit committee
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J. van der Veer

1947, 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. Member of the Supervisory Board of Concertgebouw N.V.
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C.J.A. van Lede

1942, Dutch**

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003; second term expires in 2011. Chairman of Remuneration Committee
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 and Senior Advisor JP Morgan Plc.
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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 Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of HTL Strefa and Nobel Biocare Holding. Member of the Supervisory Boards of various private and listed companies including Qiagen and Hospira
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This is an interactive electronic version of the Philips Annual Report 2010 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 full Philips Annual Report 2010. This 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 2009 compared to 2008.