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KPN nominates new members for the Supervisory Board
Den Haag, 24-2-09
The Supervisory Board of KPN nominates Mr. R.J. (Rob) Routs (62) and Mr. D.J. (Derk) Haank (55) for appointment as members of the Supervisory Board. These nominations will be put on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 7th, 2009. This fills in the vacancy that arose after Mr. Eustace stepped down from the Supervisory Board last year and expands the size of the Supervisory Board by one member.
From 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Mr. Routs was an Executive Board Member of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, where he was responsible for the downstream business. Before that he has held various (senior) management positions at this company in the USA, Canada and the Netherlands. Mr. Routs holds a number of supervisory and advisory positions, including membership of the Supervisory Board of AEGON and the Economic Development Board of Singapore International Advisory Council and member of the Board of Directors of Canadian Utilities and of the business school INSEAD. Mr. Routs took his PhD in Technical Sciences at the Technical University in Eindhoven after graduating in Chemical Engineering at the same university.
Mr. Haank is currently CEO of Springer Science+Business Media (Springer), which is a world-wide operating scientific and medical journal publisher with 5,000 employees. Before his appointment at Springer in 2004, Mr. Haank was the CEO of Elsevier Science and Executive Board Member of Reed Elsevier PLC. Mr. Haank is a member of the non-executive boards of Seetickets B.V. and NUON and the Supervisory Board of the Dutch broadcast association TROS. Mr. Haank received a master degree in economics and business administration at the University of Amsterdam.
The Supervisory Board also nominates its chairman Mr. A.H.J. Risseeuw and member Mrs. M.E. Van Lier Lels, who have both served on the Board for the last four years, for appointment for a subsequent term.
