Board of Directors

Appointed to the Board as Deputy Chairman on 24 May 2006. He was Chairman and Chief Executive of Carrefour, the Paris-based retail group and world’s second largest retailer, from 1992 to 2005. Prior to Carrefour, he was Chief Operating Officer of METRO, Germany’s leading international retailer. He is President of Provestis, his own investment company and a Non-Executive Director of Alcatel Lucent and Capgemini. He is also President of the HEC Foundation in Paris. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of Compagnie de St Gobain until June 2006. Daniel Bernard will succeed Peter Jackson as Chairman of the Company at the conclusion of the Company’s AGM on 3 June 2009. Age 63.