People: Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (PHG)

Mr. Gerard J. Kleisterlee has been President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Management, Chairman of the Group Management Committee of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV since April 30, 2001, Member of the Board of Management since April 2000 and Member of the Group Management Committee since January 1999. Mr. Kleisterlee joined Philips’ Medical Systems division in 1974 and has held numerous positions in the Company ever since. He became President of Philips Taiwan and Regional Manager for Philips Components in Asia-Pacific in 1996. From September 1997 to June 1998 he was also responsible for all activities of the Philips Group in China. Mr. Kleisterlee returned to Europe in 1999 as CEO of Philips’ Components division and was appointed Member of the Group Management Committee since January 1, 1999, and Executive Vice-President of Philips and Member of the Board of Management since April 1, 2000. Mr. Kleisterlee, attended Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering. He received an honorary Doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 2005. He is Member of the European Table of Industrialists since 2001 and Member of its Executive Committee since 2007, chairing also its Competitiveness Working Group. He is also Member of the Asia Business Council, Member of the Dutch Innovation Platform, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Eindhoven University of Technology(since July 2001). In November 2007 Mr. Kleisterlee joined the Executive Committee of the IMD in Lausanne, of which he became Chairman in September 2008. Mr Kleisterlee is Member of the Supervisory Board of De Nederlandsche Bank NV (July 2006) Chairman of the Foundation of the Cancer Centre Amsterdam and Member of the Supervisory Board of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.