People: Unilever NV (UN_p.AS)

Mr. Dave Lewis serves as President - Personal Care at Unilever NV since May 2010. He has had a long career at the Company, starting in 1987 and moving through different roles in Europe, South America and Asia. He joined the Company in 1987, starting as a UCMDS trainee for Lever Brothers, based in Kingston, United Kingdom (UK). During his first nine years he held a variety of marketing (local/European) and customer management roles. He became Marketing Operations manager in 1993. In 1996, he moved to South America, to be Marketing Director of River Plate (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay). His next move was to Indonesia in 1999, where he was Managing Director of Unilever Indonesia’s personal care business and regional innovation leader for personal care South East Asia. He took the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University and then served as Senior Vice President for Home and Personal Care, Central and Eastern Europe for three years. He then returned to the UK and his Kingston roots in 2005 as Managing Director of the UK home and personal care business. In 2007 he became Chairman of Unilever UK and Ireland, as the company consolidated its three separate operating companies - foods, home and personal care and ice cream into a single business as part of its One Unilever program. He was appointed to the Unilever Executive as President for the Americas in 2010. In 2011 following reorganization of the Unilever Leadership Executive he became Global President for the Personal Care business. He is Non-Executive Director of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.