InBev Board of Directors
InBev's board structure is composed of four members nominated by EPS SCA, a Luxembourg company that represents Interbrew's founding families; four members nominated by BRC S.à.r.l., a Luxembourg company that represents AmBev's founders; and four independent directors.
Peter Harf
Independent Board Member (Chairman)
Mr. Harf, born in 1946, is a German citizen and Chairman of Coty, a global cosmetics group; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Joh. A. Benckiser SE; and Deputy Chairman of the Reckitt Benckiser Group plc , the world’s number one producer of household cleaning products.
Jean-Luc Dehaene
Independent Board Member
Mr. Dehaene, born in 1940, has served on our Board since 2001. He is an eminent Belgian politician, and member of the European Parliament. He is also a Board member of Umicore, Trombogenics and Lotus Bakeries (Belgium).
Mark Winkelman
Independent Board Member
Mr. Winkelman, born in 1946, is a citizen of the Netherlands. He served as a Management Committee member of Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1988 to 1994, where he is now a Senior Director. Mr. Winkelman is also an Operating Partner at J. C. Flowers & Co, a private equity firm in New York City. He holds a degree in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a Trustee. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1978, he served at the World Bank for four years as a Senior Investment Officer.
Kees J. Storm
Independent Board Member
Mr. Storm, born in 1942, is a Dutch citizen, and is the retired Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors of AEGON, one of the world's largest insurance groups. He is also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KLM, the airline carrier of the Netherlands,Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PON Holdings and member of the Supervisory Board of Aegon, Baxter Intl (meber of the Audit Committee) and Unilever (Chairman Audit Committee) .
Arnoud de Pret Roose de Calesberg
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by EPS
Mr. de Pret, born in 1944, graduated as a commercial engineer from the University of Leuven (Belgium), and has been a Director of our company since 1990. He first joined the Board of Brasseries Artois S.A. as "Commissaire" in the late seventies, but resigned when the Belgian law, concerning the presence of "commissaires" who represent the shareholders at the Board, was changed. From 1972 until 1978 Mr. de Pret served as Corporate Account Manager at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, and from 1978 until 1981 he was Treasurer at the Cockerill-Sambre steel company (Belgium). Between 1981 and 1990 he held various finance positions with UCB (Belgium), first as Treasurer and then as Chief Financial Manager and Member of the Executive Committee.
In 1990, Mr. de Pret joined Société Générale de Belgique as the Corporate Finance Officer. From 1991 to 2000 he was a member of the Executive Committee of Union Minière (the company is now known as Umicore) (Belgium), as well as Corporate Vice-President Finance, and in 1992 he became Chief Financial Officer.
Today, Mr. de Pret holds several Boards and committees mandates: Delhaize Group, (Board and audit Committee), Umicore (Board and audit Committee), Sibelco (Board and Audit Committee), L’Integrale (Board and Finance Committee), Euronext (Supervisory Board), Lesaffre & Cie (Board and Finance Committee) and Sebastien Holding (Chairman of the Board).
Grégoire de Spoelberch
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by EPS
Mr. de Spoelberch, born in 1966, is a Belgian citizen, and an active private equity shareholder. Recent activities include shared CEO responsibilities for Lunch Garden, the leading Belgian self-service restaurant chain. He is a Board Member of several family-owned companies, such as EPS (InBev), Verlinvest, Amantelia (Restel), Orpar (Remy Cointreau) and Cobehold (Cobepa). He holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, Fontainebleau France, focusing on corporate finance.
Alexandre Van Damme
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by EPS
Mr. Van Damme, born in 1962, has been a Director of our company since 1992. Until 1991 he held various operational positions within InBev, including Head of Corporate Planning and Strategy. He has managed several private venture holding companies and currently is a Director of Patri SA (Luxembourg). Mr. Van Damme holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Brussels (Belgium).
Jorge Paulo Lemann
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by BRC
Jorge Paulo Lemann was born in Brazil in 1939, and graduated from Harvard University, A.B. 1961. He founded and was senior partner of Banco de Investimentos Garantia S.A. in Brazil from 1971 to June 1998, when it was sold to Credit Suisse First Boston. Until early 2005 he was a Director of The Gillette Company in Boston, Swiss Re in Zurich, Chairman of the Latin American Advisory Committee of the NYSE, and Director of Lojas Americanas, a Brazilian retailer. He resigned from these Boards to concentrate on his beer investments at InBev. In 2004 Mr. Lemann aligned his AmBev beer interests with those of Interbrew of Belgium to help create InBev. He is also a board member of Fundação Estudar, provider of scholarships for Brazilians, and a member of the Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors.
Carlos Alberto da Veiga Sicupira
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by BRC
Mr. Sicupira, born in 1948, has been Chairman of Lojas Americanas since 1981, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 1992. He has been a Board member of AmBev since 1990, a Board member of Quilmes since 2002, and a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors of Harvard Business School since 1998.
Roberto Moses Thompson Motta
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by BRC
Mr. Thompson Motta, a Brazilian citizen born in 1957, has been a director of our company since 2004. Mr. Thompson Motta is a founder and Board member of GP Investments Ltd. (Bermuda) and is also a Board member of Lojas Americanas S.A. and São Carlos S.A. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Marcel Herrmann Telles
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by BRC
Mr. Telles, born in 1950, is a member of the Board of Directors of AmBev since 2000. Mr. Telles has a degree in economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and attended the Owners/Presidents Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Stéfan Descheemaeker
Representative of the Main Shareholders - Nominated by EPS
Born in 1960, Stéfan joined Interbrew in 1996. He began his professional career with the Belgian Ministry of Finance, from where he moved on to Banque Paribas. A Belgian citizen, Stéfan holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from Solvay Business School, Brussels. At Interbrew, he led Business Development and External Growth Strategy from 1996 to 2004. He was appointed Zone President US & Latin America in September 2003. In January 2005, Stéfan became Zone President Central & Eastern Europe. In December 2005, his responsibilities shifted to the Western European Zone and was also appointed Member of the Convergence Committee.
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