People: Etablissements Delhaize Freres et Cie le Lion SA (DEG)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Mats Jansson

 62 2012 Chairman of the Board of Directors

Pierre-Olivier Beckers

 53 1999 Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer, President, Executive Director

Pierre Bouchut

 57 2012 Chief Financial Office, Member of the Executive Committee and Executive Vice President

Maura Smith

 2013 Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, General Secretary

Nicolas Hollanders

 51 2007 Member of the Executive Committee, EVP of Human Resources and Organizational Development

Stefan Descheemaeker

 53 2012 Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer - Delhaize Europe

Kostas Macheras

 60 2010 Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer - Delhaize Southeastern Europe

Roland Smith

 59 2012 Executive Vice President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Delhaize America

Marcus Spurrell

 2012 Senior Vice President Digital

Hugh Farrington

 68 2013 Non-Executive Non-Independent Director

Didier Smits

 51 2009 Non-Executive Director

Claire Babrowski

 56 2006 Non-Executive Independent Director

Shari Ballard

 47 2012 Non-Executive Independent Director

Jacques de Vaucleroy

 52 2005 Non-Executive Independent Director

Jean-Pierre Hansen

 65 2011 Non-Executive Independent Director

William McEwan

 57 2011 Non-Executive Independent Director

Jack Stahl

 60 2008 Non-Executive Independent Director

Luc Vansteenkiste

 66 2005 Non-Executive Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Mats Jansson

 Mr. Mats Jansson is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 24, 2012. He currently also serves as Independent Board Member of Danske Bank and is Member of JPMorgan European Advisory Council. Mr. Jansson began his career with ICA, a 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 Chief Executive Officer (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 Director of Axfood, Mekonomen, Swedish Match and Hufvudstaden. Mr. Jansson studied Economical History and Sociology at the University of Orebro.

Pierre-Olivier Beckers

 Mr. Pierre-Olivier Beckers has been Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President and Executive Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since January 1, 1999. Mr. Beckers was first appointed to the Board of Directors in May 1995. He began working in the food retail industry in 1982 as store manager for a bakery chain in Belgium. Mr. Beckers joined the Company in 1983, to work initially three years in the United States operations as store manager. After his return to Belgium, he broadened his retail experience as 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 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 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 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 a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Pierre Bouchut

 Mr. Pierre Bouchut has served as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Member of the Executive Committee of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since March 19, 2012. Mr. Bouchut began his career in 1979 with Citibank Paris. He joined Bankers Trust France SA in 1987 to become Vice-President, Finance. In 1988, he joined McKinsey & Company as consultant in the Corporate Finance and Integrated Logistics practices. Between 1990 and 2005, Mr. Bouchut was with Group Casino, where he successively held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer responsible for both the French and international operations (USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Venezuela). Between 2005 and 2009, Mr. Bouchut served with Schneider Group as CFO, developing numerous initiatives in the field of structured finance, risk management and external growth. He joined Carrefour in 2009 as Chief Financial Officer and was most recently Executive Director Growth Markets of Carrefour, overlooking operations in Latin America (Brazil, Columbia and Argentina) and in Turkey, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. He was also overlooking Carrefour Personal Financial Services operations worldwide. Mr. Bouchut is graduated from HEC (1977) and holds a Master Degree in Applied Economics from Paris Dauphine University.

Maura Smith

 Ms. Maura J. Abeln Smith is Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and General Secretary of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 2, 2013. Ms. Smith was formerly Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel, and Secretary of PepsiCo. Ms. Smith brings more than 30 years of corporate legal experience to the Group. Prior to joining PepsiCo, she served International Paper as the company's Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and head of Global Government Relations. During her eight-year tenure there she was involved in the company's transformation into a company in the packaging and paper industry. She also spent five years at Owens Corning where she served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and from 2000, she was also appointed Chief Restructuring Officer and Member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Smith also worked at General Electric, in the GE Plastics Division, where she served as Vice President and General Counsel for nearly seven years. Prior to GE, she was Partner at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie. Ms. Smith graduated from Vassar College, in the United States, with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, earned with highest honors. She was also one of the first women awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, in the United Kingdom, where she earned an Master of Philosophy in Economics. She then earned her Juris Doctor with honors from University of Miami School of Law.

Nicolas Hollanders

 Mr. Nicolas Hollanders has been Executive Vice President of Human Resources, IT and Sustainability and Member of the Executive Committee of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA. He was appointed on January 17, 2007. He started his career as a lawyer. In 1989, he joined Delvaux, a Brussels-based manufacturer and distributor of leather goods and accessories, first as General Manager, and from 1993 as Managing Director. In 1995, Mr. Hollanders joined the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, where he served successively as consultant, principal and partner. Mr. Hollanders is founding member and Chairman of Child Planet, a foundation aimed at improving conditions in children’s hospitals and also serves on the board of Face Children. Mr. Hollanders holds a Master’s degrees in Law and Notary Law and a Post Graduate degree in Economics from the University of Leuven.

Stefan Descheemaeker

 Mr. Stefan Descheemaeker has been Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer - Delhaize Europe of Etablissemenets Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since January 2012. Before he was Chief Financial Officer of the Company since 2009. He started his career with Cobepa, at that time the Benelux investment company of BNP-Paribas. He later joined the holding company Defi as Chief Executive Officer of its financial subsidiary Definance. In 1996, he joined the Belgian brewer Interbrew, where he became head of Strategy & External Growth, managing its M&A operations, culminating with the merger of Interbrew and AmBev in 2004. At that point in time, he transitioned to operational management, in charge of respectively the brewer’s operations in the United States and Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe, and, eventually, Western Europe. In 2008, Mr. Descheemaeker ended his operational responsibilities at Anheuser-Busch InBev and joined its Board as Non-Executive Director. Mr. Descheemaeker holds a Masters’ degree as Commercial Engineer, Solvay Business School, Brussels, Belgium.

Kostas Macheras

 Mr. Kostas Macheras has been Member of the Executive Committee, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Southeastern Europe of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since January 15, 2010. Mr. Macheras is Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos and Mega Image. Mr. Macheras joined Delhaize Group in 1997 as General Manager of Alfa-Beta Vassilopoulos. Mr. Macheras started his professional career in retailing in the United States, as purchasing manager at the Quality Super Market Company in Chicago. Mr. Macheras worked for 14 years for Mars Inc. In 1982, he was in charge of sales, marketing and exports in The Netherlands, and later became General Manager for Greece and Italy. From 1996 to 1997 he served as General Manager of Chipita International in Greece. Mr. Macheras has been Board Member of EEDE (Hellenic Management Association) for nine years. He has been Member of the Board of Directors at EASE (Association of Greek Executive Officers) since 2008, and is also currently Board Member of SEET (Association of Greek Food Enterprises). In 2005, he was named Officer in the Order of Leopold II by King Albert II of Belgium. Mr. Macheras holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of Piraeus and a Masters of Business Administration from the Roosevelt University of Chicago in Business Administration & Marketing.

Roland Smith

 Mr. Roland Smith has been Executive Vice President, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Delhaize America of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since August 30, 2012. Mr. Smith served as an officer in the United States Army for seven years. Mr. Smith held senior management positions at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pepsi Cola International, Schering-Plough and Procter & Gamble before joining in 1994 Arby's Inc, predecessor to Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. He was promoted to President and CEO of Arby’s Inc. in February 1997, serving in that capacity until 1999. From April 1999 until January 2003, Mr. Smith was CEO of AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc. Between February 2003 and November 2005, Mr. Smith served as CEO of American Golf Corporation. In April 2006, Mr. Smith returned to Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. where he served as CEO until September 2008. In September 2008, Triarc Companies Inc. the parent company of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. merged with Wendy’s International Inc. to form Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. where Mr. Smith served as President and CEO until July 2011. After the sale of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. in July 2011, he served as President and CEO of The Wendy’s Company until September 2011. Mr. Smith is currently Director of The Wendy’s Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Carmike Cinemas, Inc., a national trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a national executive board member of the Boy Scouts of America and Member of the World Presidents' Organization International. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Marcus Spurrell

 Mr. Marcus Spurrell serves as Senior Vice President Digital of Delhaize Group since September 11, 2012. He joined the Company from adidas where he was responsible for the Global Center of Excellence for all eCommerce activities of the Group. In parallel, he was responsible for the line management of eCommerce Operations in Europe. Mr. Spurrell joined adidas in 2005 as Digital Marketing Manager for Asia, based in Hong Kong. In 2008 he was promoted to Global Head of Digital Marketing & eCommerce for Reebok International, based in Boston, United States.

Hugh Farrington

 Mr. Hugh G. Farrington is Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA. He was appointed on May 26, 2005. He is Chairman of the Company's Remuneration and Nomination Committee since May 24, 2012. After a retail management career starting in 1968 at Hannaford, a United States of America subsidiary of Delhaize Group, Mr. Farrington served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hannaford from 1992 to 2001. In 2000, he was appointed 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 Company. He rejoined the Board as Director in 2005. Mr. Farrington holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in History from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire and a Master of Arts of Education from the University of New Hampshire.

Didier Smits

 Mr. Didier Smits is Non-Executive Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 28, 2009. He received a Master's degree in Economic and Financial Sciences ( ICHEC Brussels Management School). In 1996, he was elected Director of the Company and he still serves as Non-Executive Director of the Company. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Smits was a Manager at Advanced Technics Company. In 1991, Mr. Smits became Managing Director of Papeteries Aubry SPRL.

Claire Babrowski

 Ms. Claire H. Babrowski is Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA. She was appointed on May 24, 2006. She is Member of the Company's Audit Committee. She 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 Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of Toys “R” Us. In 1998, she received the Emerging Leader Award from the United States Women’s Service Forum. Ms. Babrowski holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina.

Shari Ballard

 Ms. Shari L. Ballard has been Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 25, 2012. She has been President, International and 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 took on positions of increasing responsibility before being named Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Legal in 2004. Ms. Ballard then served as Executive Vice President, Retail Channel Management of Best Buy, responsible for the Best Buy stores across the United States. In 2010, she assumed the role of Co-President of the Americas and Executive Vice President, heading Best Buy's operations throughout North America. Ms. Ballard graduated from the University of Michigan - Flint with a Bachelors Degree in Social Work.

Jacques de Vaucleroy

 Mr. Jacques M. de Vaucleroy is Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA. He was appointed on May 26, 2005. He is Chief Executive Officer (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 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. Mr. de Vaucleroy has made most of his career within the ING Group, where he was Member of the Executive Board of ING Group and CEO of ING Insurance and Investment Management Europe. He has experience in the banking and insurance and asset management business, both in Europe and in the United States. Mr. de Vaucleroy holds a Bachelors degree in Law (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and a Master in Business Law (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium). Mr. de Vaucleroy is Member of the Company Remuneration and Nomination Committee.

Jean-Pierre Hansen

 Mr. Jean-Pierre Hansen has been Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 26, 2011. He 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 Member of the Board of Directors of Electrabel, Compagnie Nationale a 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 Universite Catholique Louvain and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He is a Visiting Scholar at MIT (Cambridge, United States). Mr. Hansen holds a degree in Civil Engineering from Universite de Liege (1971), a Doctorate in Philosophy in Engineering from Universite Paris VIPierre et Marie Curie (1974) and a Master's degree in Economics from Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris II). He is Member of the Company's Audit Committee.

William McEwan

 Mr. William (Bill) G. McEwan has been Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA since May 26, 2011. He is Member of the Company's Remuneration and Nomination Committee. He is a Canadian grocery and consumer packaged goods executive. He began his career at Ferreo’s Ltd, Super Valu Stores, spending 13 years with the company. Between 1989 and 2000, Mr. McEwan held a variety of 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 United States Atlantic Region, the position he held immediately prior to joining Sobeys Inc. He served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Sobeys Inc. and Member of the Board of Directors of its parent company, Empire Company Limited until June 2012.

Jack Stahl

 Mr. Jack L. Stahl serves as Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA as per August 4, 2008. He 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. He served on the Boards of pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough until December 2009 and currently serves at Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, as well as Member of the United States Board of Advisors of CVC Capital Partners Advisory Inc. 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. Mr. Stahl received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Emory University and holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee.

Luc Vansteenkiste

 Bn. Luc Vansteenkiste has been Non-Executive Independent Director of Etablissements Delhaize Freres Et Cie Le Lion SA. He was appointed on May 26, 2005. He is President of the Board of the Belgian company Sioen and Vice President of the Board of Recticel. Bn. Vansteenkiste is also Member of the Board of the Belgian company Spector Photo Group. He is Honorary Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Companies. Bn. Vansteekiste was Chief Executive Officer of Recticel until April 1, 2010. He earned his degree in Civil Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is Member of the Company's Audit Committee.

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