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The profiles of the directors up for re-election appear in this notice of annual general meeting:
Till Streichert (42)
Chief Financial Officer and executive director of Vodacom Group
Member of the Vodacom Group Executive Committee
Non-executive director of Vodacom South Africa
(Dr. Phil (University of Hanover, Germany))
Till was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Vodacom Group in August 2015, having previously held the role of Executive
Director Finance: Vodacom South Africa, from February 2014. Prior to joining Vodacom, Till was the CFO at Vodafone Romania and
held a number of senior finance and commercial roles in Romania, including Director of Channel Marketing, Logistics and Sales
Operations, Director of Financial Planning, Reporting and Finance Operations. Till started his career working for the CEO of T-Mobile
Germany before undertaking various senior roles at T-Mobile UK. He has also served as a strategy consultant at The Boston
Consulting Group.
Marten Pieters (62)
Non-executive director
(LLM and postgraduate course in Economics)
Marten is the former CEO and managing director of Vodafone India, a role he held from April 2009 until April 2015. He is also a
member of the Board of Directors of Oi, the Brazilian operator and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Investment Fund for Health
in Africa B.V. Marten was also the Chairman of the board of the Cellular Operators in India. He is the former non-executive director of
Millicom International Cellular (2008 to 2009) and was CEO of Celtel International B.V., the pan-African operator from 2003 until
2007. Prior to this, Marten held various senior roles at KPN, the incumbent operator in The Netherlands, as CEO of KPN Business
Solutions. Before he joined KPN, he was director of finance and strategic planning at Royal Smilde Foods and had been CEO of some
of its Dutch subsidiaries. He is currently a non-executive director for Vodafone India, Chairman of the Board of Indus, the biggest
tower company in the world and the Chairman of the Social Investor Foundation for Africa. He is also a member of the Supervisory
Board of the Investment Fund for Health in Africa. Marten was appointed to the Vodacom Group Board in October 2015.
Serpil Timuray (47)
Non-executive director
Member of the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee
(Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University)
Serpil is Executive Committee member of Vodafone Group and as Regional CEO of Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific as of
January 2014. Timuray is an independent director to Danone Group since April 2015 and sits on the Board of Trustees at
Koç University. Timuray also serves as non-executive director to the Board of Vodacom Group, since September 2012,
Vodafone India, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Safaricom Kenya since November 2013 and Vodafone Qatar since June 2014.
Timuray joined Vodafone as CEO Turkey in January 2009. Prior to this role, she was the CEO of Danone Turkey from 2002 to 2008.
She began her career in marketing in 1991 at Procter & Gamble where she was later on appointed to the Executive Committee of
P&G Turkey. Timuray was ranked 15th amongst the Fortune’s ‘Most powerful women of Europe, Middle East and Africa’ in 2015 and
2014, 79th amongst the ‘World’s 125 Women of Impact’ by Newsweek in 2013 and selected as a ‘Young Global Leader’ by World
Economic Forum in 2009. She was elected as ‘The Professional of the Year’ in Turkey for 2013, 2011 and 2010. A graduate of
Bogazici University in Business Administration.
Phillip Jabulani Moleketi (Jabu) (58)
Independent non-executive director
Chairman of the Social and Ethics Committee
Member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee
(Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Principles (London), AMP (Harvard), MSc (London))
Jabu is non-executive chairman of Brait SA and the Development Bank of South Africa. He is a former Deputy Minister of Finance
(2004 to 2008) and former MEC of Financial and Economic Affairs in the Gauteng Provincial Government (1994 to 2004). He is a
director of several companies listed on the JSE Limited. Jabu was appointed to the Vodacom Group Board in November 2009.