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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position
Lader, Philip 63 2001 Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Sorrell, Martin 64 1986 Group Chief Executive, Executive Director
Richardson, Paul 51 Group Finance Director, Executive Director
Capes, Marie Company Secretary
Read, Mark 42 2005 Strategy Director, Chief Executive Officer of WPP Digital; Executive Director
Quelch, John 57 1988 Non-Executive Director
Naganuma, Koichiro 64 2004 Non-Executive Director
Spencer, Paul 59 2004 Non-Executive Independent Director
Rosen, Jeffrey 61 2004 Non-Executive Independent Director
Olayan, Lubna 53 2005 Non-Executive Independent Director
Morten, Stanley 65 2007 Senior Non-Executive Independent Director
Dyson, Esther 57 1999 Non-Executive Independent Director
Gadiesh, Orit 58 2004 Non-Executive Independent Director
Day, Colin 54 2005 Non-Executive Independent Director
Shriver, Timothy 49 2007 Non-Executive Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description
Lader, Philip Mr. Philip Lader was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of WPP PLC in 2001. The US Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from 1997 to 2001, he previously served in several senior executive roles in the US Government, including as a Member of the President’s Cabinet and as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Before entering government service, he was executive vice president of the company managing the late Sir James Goldsmith’s US holdings and president of both a prominent American real estate company and universities in the US and Australia. A lawyer, he is also a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, a director of Lloyd’s of London, a director of RAND, Marathon Oil, Rusal, AES Corporations and Songbird Estates plc (Canary Wharf), a trustee of the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the Atlantic Council and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sorrell, Martin Sir Martin Sorrell joined WPP PLC in 1986 as a Executive Director, becoming Group Chief Executive in the same year. He is a non-executive director of Formula One.
Richardson, Paul Mr. Paul W.G. Richardson serves as Group Finance Director, Executive Director of WPP PLC. He became Group finance director of WPP in 1996 after four years with the Company as director of treasury. He is responsible for the Group’s worldwide functions in finance, information technology, procurement, property, treasury, taxation, internal audit and corporate responsibility. He is also the Country Manager for Italy. He is a chartered accountant and fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a non-executive director of CEVA Group plc, Chime Communications PLC and STW Communications Group Limited in Australia, the last two being companies associated with the Group
Capes, Marie
Read, Mark Mr. Mark Read serves as Strategy Director, Chief Executive Officer of WPP Digital; Executive Director of WPP PLC. He was appointed a director in March 2005. He has been WPP’s director of strategy since 2002 and is also chief executive of WPP Digital. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of HighCo and a director of CHI & Partners. He worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and operating company roles. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK.
Quelch, John Mr. John Quelch was appointed a Non-Executive Director of WPP PLC in 1988. He is Senior Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Between 1998 and 2001 he was Dean of the London Business School. He also serves as chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Professor Quelch’s writings focus on global business practice in emerging as well as developed markets, international marketing and the role of the multinational corporation and the nation state. He is a non-executive director of Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. and Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. He served previously on the boards of Blue Circle Industries plc, easyJet plc, Pentland Group plc and Reebok International Limited.
Naganuma, Koichiro Mr. Koichiro Naganuma was appointed a Non-Executive Director of WPP PLC in February 2004. He is president and group chief executive officer of Asatsu-DK, also known as ADK. Joining the agency in 1981, he began his career with the account service of global clients in the agency. His mandate thereafter expanded to the total operation of the group. He replaced ADK chairman Masao Inagaki on the Board. ADK is Japan’s third largest advertising and communications company and ninth largest in the world.
Spencer, Paul Mr. Paul Spencer was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in April 2004. He is a financier, with 20 years’ experience in the financial management of a number of blue chip companies, including British Leyland PLC, Rolls-Royce PLC, Hanson PLC and Royal & Sun Alliance PLC. He served as UK chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance PLC between 1999 and 2002 and the chairman of State Street Managed Pension Funds Ltd. He is also chairman of the Association of Corporate Treasurers’ Advisory Board, NS&I (National Savings), the UK government-owned retail savings institution, and Sovereign Reversions Group plc. He is also a non-executive director of TR Property Investment Trust plc and Nipponkoa Insurance (Europe) Limited and Independent Trustee of the Rolls Royce Group and BAT Group pension funds. Paul is a governor of Motability, a UK charity for the disabled.
Rosen, Jeffrey Mr. Jeffrey Rosen was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in December 2004. He is a deputy chairman and managing director of Lazard. He has over 30 years’ experience in international investment banking and corporate finance. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is President of the Board of Trustees of the International Center of Photography in New York.
Olayan, Lubna Ms. Lubna Olayan was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in March 2005. Ms. Olayan is the deputy chairman and chief executive officer of the Olayan Financing Company, a subsidiary and the holding entity for the Olayan Group’s operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Ms. Olayan is a Board Member of Saudi Hollandi Bank, a publicly listed company in Saudi Arabia. She is on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD and a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University and KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science & Technology). Ms. Olayan joined the International Advisory Board of Rolls-Royce in October 2006.
Morten, Stanley Mr. Stanley Morten was appointed a Senior Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in 1991. He is a consultant and private investor. He is currently the Independent Consultant to Citigroup/Smith Barney with responsibility for its independent research requirements and is one of the five public members of the Investment Advisory Council of the State of Connecticut. Previously he was the chief operating officer of Punk, Ziegel & Co, a New York investment banking firm with a focus on the healthcare and technology industries. Before that he was the managing director of the equity division of Wertheim Schroder & Co, Inc. in New York. He is a former non-executive director of Register.com, which was sold to a private equity firm in November 2005. He is also a non-executive director of The Motley Fool, Inc., a private company.
Dyson, Esther Ms. Esther Dyson was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in 1999. In 2004 she sold her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks, the US-based interactive media company. She left CNET at the end of 2006 and now operates as an independent investor and writer, again under the name of EDventure. She has been highly influential for the past 20 years on the basis of her insights into online/information technology markets and their social impact worldwide, including the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. An active investor as well as an analyst/observer, she participated in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo! and of Medstory to Microsoft. She sits on the boards of non-listed start-ups including Boxbe (US), Evernote (US), 23andMe (US), Airship Ventures (US), Eventful.com (US), Meetup Inc. (US), NewspaperDirect (Canada), CVO Group (Hungary), Voxiva (US) and Yandex (Russia). She sat on the consumer advisory board of Orbitz until its sale to Cendant. She is also active in public affairs and was founding chairman of ICANN, the domain name policy agency, from 1998 to 2000. She currently sits on the board of the Sunlight Foundation, which advocates transparency in government.
Gadiesh, Orit Mr. Orit Gadiesh was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in April 2004. She is chairman of Bain & Company, Inc. and a world-renowned expert on management and corporate strategy. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a Baker Scholar. She is a member of the International Advisory Board at Haute Ecole Commerciale in France, as well as a member of the Foundation Board for the World Economic Forum and the Board of Directors of The Peres Institute for Peace. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee for Eisenhower Fellowships and a member of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Day, Colin Mr. Colin Day was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in July 2005. He is group finance director of Reckitt Benckiser plc, having been appointed to its board in September 2000 and became a non-executive director of Cadbury plc in December 2008. Prior to joining Reckitt Benckiser, he was group finance director of Aegis Group plc and previously held a number of senior finance positions with ABB Group plc and De La Rue Group plc. He was a non-executive director of Imperial Tobacco plc until February 2007 and of easyJet plc until 30 September 2005.
Shriver, Timothy Mr. Timothy Shriver was appointed a Non-Executive Independent Director of WPP PLC in August 2007. He is Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics, serving over three million Special Olympic athletes and their families in 180 countries. In recent years, he has produced films for Disney, Dream Works, Fox Searchlight and Hallmark Hall of Fame. Since January 2007 he has been writing a column for The Washington Post/Newsweek.com. He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and currently chairs the CASEL Board. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is also a non-executive director of Malaria No More, Neogenix Oncology, and he is the founder and President of the Center for Interface Action on Global Poverty. He serves on the advisory committee of Main Street Advisors and Leeds Equity.

Basic Compensation

Name Fiscal Year Total
Lader, Philip 313,000
Sorrell, Martin 3,544,000
Richardson, Paul 1,800,000
Capes, Marie --
Read, Mark 706,000
Quelch, John --
Naganuma, Koichiro --
Spencer, Paul --
Rosen, Jeffrey --
Olayan, Lubna --
Morten, Stanley --
Dyson, Esther --
Gadiesh, Orit --
Day, Colin --
Shriver, Timothy --
As Of 30 Dec 2008

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