People: Diageo PLC (DEO)

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24 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Franz Humer

66 2008 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Paul Walsh

58 2013 Executive Director

Deirdre Mahlan

50 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director

Nicholas Blazquez

51 2011 President, Diageo Africa

Nick Blazquez

51 2012 President, Diageo Africa, Russia & Turkey

Gilbert Ghostine

52 2009 President, Diageo Asia-Pacific

David Gosnell

55 2011 President - Global Supply and Global Procurement

John Kennedy

2012 President, Diageo Western Europe

Randolph Millian

59 2011 President, Diageo Latin America and Caribbean American

Andrew Morgan

56 2012 President - New Businesses

Larry Schwartz

59 2012 President, Diageo North America

Ivan Menezes

53 2013 Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director

Andrew Fennell

45 2008 Chief Marketing Officer

Timothy Proctor

63 2000 General Counsel

Gareth Williams

59 1999 Human Resources Director

James Grover

54 2011 Group Strategy Director

Ian Wright

54 Corporate Relations Director

Paul Tunnacliffe

50 2008 Company Secretary

KwonPing Ho

60 2012 Non-Executive Director

Peggy Bruzelius

63 2009 Non-Executive Independent Director

Laurence Danon

57 2006 Non-Executive Independent Director

Evan Davies

60 2011 Senior Non-Executive Independent Director

Betsy Holden

57 2009 Non-Executive Independent Director

Philip Scott

59 2007 Non-Executive Independent Director

H. Todd Stitzer

60 2004 Non-Executive Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Franz Humer

Dr. Franz B. Humer is Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Diageo PLC. Appointed chairman of Diageo plc in July 1, 2008, having been a non-executive director since April 2005. He is also chairman of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd in Switzerland and chairman of INSEAD’s board of directors. He was formerly chief operating director of Glaxo Holdings plc and has held a number of other non-executive directorships.

Paul Walsh

Mr. Paul Steven Walsh is no longer an Executive Director of Diageo PLC., effective September 2013. He will no longer serve Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective July 1, 2013. He has served in a number of management roles since joining GrandMet’s brewing division in 1982, including chief executive officer of The Pillsbury Company. He was appointed to the GrandMet board in October 1995 and to the Diageo plc board in December 1997. He is lead non-executive and deputy chair of the board of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, a non-executive director of Unilever PLC and a nonexecutive director of FedEx Corporation in the United States. He is also a member of the Business Advisory Group and chairman of the Scotch Whisky Association.

Deirdre Mahlan

Ms. Deirdre A. Mahlan is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed chief financial officer and a director of Diageo plc in October 2010, prior to which she was deputy chief financial officer, Diageo plc, and before that head of tax and treasury. She joined the company in 2001, having held various senior finance positions in Joseph E Seagram & Sons Inc since 1992, having formerly been a senior manager with Pricewaterhouse. She is also a member of the Main Committee of the 100 Group of Finance Directors.

Nicholas Blazquez

Mr. Nicholas B. Blazquez is President, Diageo Africa of Diageo PLC. Appointed president, having been managing director, Diageo Africa since August 2004, prior to which he was managing director, Diageo Asia Key Markets. He held various managerial positions in United Distillers between 1989 and 1998.

Nick Blazquez

Gilbert Ghostine

Mr. Gilbert Ghostine is President, Diageo Asia-Pacific of Diageo PLC. Appointed president, Diageo Asia Pacific in July 2009, having previously been managing director, Diageo Continental Europe, since July 2006. He was formerly managing director, Northern Europe, and president, U.S markets and held various senior managerial positions in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States, having joined International Distillers & Vintners in 1995.

David Gosnell

Mr. David Peter Gosnell is President - Global Supply and Global Procurement of Diageo PLC. Appointed president, having been managing director, Global Supply and Global Procurement, Diageo plc since July 2003. He joined Diageo in 1998 as European supply director, then headed up Guinness & European RTD supply, prior to which he spent 20 years in various roles with Heinz. He was previously a non-executive director of Brambles plc.

John Kennedy

Mr. John Kennedy has been appointed as President, Diageo Western Europe of Diageo PLC effective November 9, 2012. He is responsibile for all countries and functions in Western Europe. John brings a experience to his position having held senior staff and general management positions in Australia, the United States, Canada and Ireland and most recently as Chief Operating Officer, Western Europe.

Randolph Millian

Mr. Randolph John Millian is President, Diageo Latin America and Caribbean American of Diageo PLC. Appointed president, having been managing director, Diageo Latin America and Caribbean since 2005, having joined United Distillers & Vintners Brazil in 1995 as its managing director. Prior to joining Diageo, he held senior management positions with American Express, Schering- Plough, Personal Care Group USA and Pepsi in a number of territories, including Latin America, Europe, Asia and the USA.

Andrew Morgan

Mr. Andrew Morgan has been appointed as President - New Businesses of Diageo PLC., effective November 9, 2012. He was appointed president, Diageo Europe in October 2004, and was President, Venture Markets since July 2002 until October 2004. He joined United Distillers in 1987 and held various senior management positions with Guinness and then Diageo, including group chief information officer and president, New Business Ventures for Guinness United Distillers & Vintners and director, global strategy and innovation for United Distillers & Vintners.

Larry Schwartz

Mr. Larry Schwartz is President, Diageo North America of Diageo PLC. Appointed president, Diageo North America in 2012 having been president, Diageo USA since September 2008. He joined the company in 2001, as president of Joseph E Seagram & Sons, having held a variety of senior management positions with Seagram.

Ivan Menezes

Mr. Ivan M. Menezes serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director of Diageo PLC. He has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective July 1, 2013. He has been appointed as Executive Director of the Company effective 2 July 2012 and has been Chief Operating Officer since 1 March 2012. In that role he leads Diageo's operating businesses globally with responsibility for operations in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America and Caribbean. Mr. Menezes has held a series of senior appointments in Diageo and was most recently President of Diageo North America and Chairman of Diageo's businesses in both the Asia Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean regions. Formerly he held various senior management positions with Guinness and then Diageo and worked across a variety of sales, marketing and strategy roles with Nestlé in Asia, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc in North America and Whirlpool in Europe. He is also a non-executive director of Coach Inc., in the USA.

Andrew Fennell

Mr. Andrew Fennell is Chief Marketing Officer of Diageo PLC. Appointed chief marketing officer of Diageo plc in September 2008. He held a number of marketing roles in the UK and internationally with Guinness and Diageo, prior to which he worked in various sales and marketing roles with Britvic and Bass plc.

Timothy Proctor

Mr. Timothy D. Proctor is General Counsel of Diageo PLC. Appointed general counsel of Diageo plc in January 2000. Formerly he was director, worldwide human resources of Glaxo Wellcome and senior vice president, human resources, general counsel and secretary for Glaxo’s U.S operating company. He has over 25 years’ international legal experience, including 13 years with Merck and six years with Glaxo Wellcome.

Gareth Williams

Mr. Gareth Williams is Human Resources Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed human resources director in January 1999. Formerly he held a number of senior personnel management positions with GrandMet and then United Distillers & Vintners and spent ten years with Ford of Britain in a number of personnel and employee relations positions.

James Grover

Mr. James N. D. Grover is Group Strategy Director of Diageo PLC. He was having been global business support director since February 2004. Formerly he held a number of senior strategy positions in GrandMet and worked as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc and OC&C Strategy Consultants.

Ian Wright

Mr. Ian Wright is Corporate Relations Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed corporate relations director of Diageo plc in July 2004, having previously held positions with a number of public relations consultancies and The Boots Company.

Paul Tunnacliffe

Mr. Paul D. Tunnacliffe is Company Secretary of Diageo PLC. Appointed company secretary of Diageo plc in January 2008. He was formerly company secretary of Hanson PLC.

KwonPing Ho

Mr. Ho KwonPing has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of Diageo PLC., with effect from 1 October 2012. He has also been appointed as member of the Audit, the Nomination and the Remuneration Committees. Mr. Ho is Executive Chairman and founder of Banyan Tree Holdings, Ltd. Listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, the group develops, owns and operates lifestyle facilities including 30 hotels and resorts, over 60 spas and 80 retail galleries as well as two golf courses in close to 30 countries worldwide. Mr. Ho is also an advisor to the global investment bank Moelis & Co. Previously, Mr. Ho has served as a non-executive director at Singapore Airlines Ltd and Standard Chartered Plc as well as Chairman of MediaCorp Pte Ltd and Singapore Power Ltd. He was educated in Tunghai University, Taiwan; Stanford University, California and the University of Singapore. He worked as a journalist and was the Economics Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. In May 2000, Mr Ho was conferred an honorary doctorate by Johnson & Wales University, and later received the London Business School 2005 Entrepreneurship Award. In 2008, he was named CEO of the Year at the Singapore Corporate Awards. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Hospitality Lifetime Achievement Award at the China Hotel Investment Summit in Shanghai. As Chairman of Singapore Management University (SMU), Mr Ho was awarded the Singapore Government's Meritorious Service Medal for his contribution in the founding of SMU. In 2010, he became the first Asian to receive the ACA (American Creativity Association) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his creativity and innovation in various spheres of endeavour. In 2011, he was voted top Thinker in Singapore in the Yahoo! Singapore 9 Awards, a testament to his business innovations and leadership in civic causes.

Peggy Bruzelius

Dr. Peggy B. Bruzelius is Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in April 2009. She is chairman of Lancelot Asset Management and vice chairman of Electrolux AB, both in Sweden, and sits on the boards of Akzo Nobel NV in the Netherlands, Syngenta AG in Switzerland and Axfood AB and Husqvarna AB in Sweden. She was formerly managing director of ABB Financial Services AB and headed the asset management arm of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB. She was also a nonexecutive director of Scania AB.

Laurence Danon

Madam Laurence M. Danon is Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in January 2006. She is chairman of the executive board of Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance and a non-executive director of Groupe BPCE, Rhodia SA and TF1, all in France. Formerly she served with the French Ministry of Industry and Energy, held a number of senior management posts with Total Fina Elf and was chairman and chief executive officer of France Printemps. She was also a non-executive director of Experian Group Limited, Plastic Omnium SA and Rhodia SA.

Evan Davies

Lord Evan Mervyn Davies of Abersoch has been appointed as Senior Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC with effect from 19 October 2011. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in September 2010. Lord Davies is a partner of Corsair Capital, non executive chairman of Pinebridge Investments Limited, a non-executive director of Bharti Airtel Limited and chair of the advisory board of Moelis & Co. He is also a trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts and chair of the Council, University of Wales Bangor. Previously he was Minister for Trade, Investment and Small Business for the UK Government between January 2009 and May 2010. Prior to this role, Lord Davies was Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC.

Betsy Holden

Ms. Betsy D. Holden is Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in September 2009. She is a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company and holds non-executive directorships of MediaBank LLC, Tribune Company and Western Union Company, all in the United States. She is a member of the board of trustees at Duke University and a member of the Dean’s advisory board at the Kellogg School of Management. She was formerly president, global marketing and category development and co-chief executive officer of Kraft Foods, Inc.

Philip Scott

Mr. Philip G. Scott is Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc and chairman of the Audit Committee in October 2007. He is the president elect of the Council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and is a non-executive director of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc. He was previously chief financial officer of Aviva plc.

H. Todd Stitzer

Mr. H. Todd Stitzer is Non-Executive Independent Director of Diageo PLC. Appointed a non-executive director of Diageo plc in June 2004. He is a non-executive director of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is also a member of the advisory board of Hamlin Capital Management, LLC, a New York based investment advisory firm, and a member of the advisory committee of Virgin Group Holdings Limited. He was previously chief executive of Cadbury plc.
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