G4S Annual Report and Accounts 2011

Overview Strategic review Performance
Governance
Board of directors continued
Mark Seligman
Non-executive director
Deputy chairman
Chairman – Audit Committee
Member – Remuneration Committee
Key strengths and specific G4S role:
Extensive financial and management experience
having worked in the financial services sector, with
a particular focus on investment banking. Takes
a particular interest in the financial performance
of the company, including its financing and
transactional activity.
Joined G4S board: January 2006
Previous experience: Qualified as a chartered
accountant with Price Waterhouse. Senior roles
at SG Warburg & Co Ltd and Barclays de Zoete
Wedd; Head of UK Investment Banking at CSFB;
Chairman of UK Investment Banking at Credit
Suisse; member of the Credit Suisse Global
Investment Banking Executive Board and senior
advisor to Credit Suisse Europe.
Current external commitments: Alternate
member of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers;
chairman of the Industrial Development Advisory
Board; member of the Regional Growth Fund
Advisory Panel; non-executive director of
BG Group plc and senior independent director
of Kingfisher plc.
Lord Condon
Non-executive director
Senior independent director
Chairman – Remuneration Committee
Member – Audit and Nomination Committees
Key strengths and specific G4S role:
Extensive experience of high profile security
issues, the workings of the public sector and law
making. Has broad involvement with the UK
businesses within the group, particularly those
serving public sector customers. Has particular
focus on the group’s involvement with sporting
events. Leads the Nomination Committee’s
exercise for the recruitment of a new chairman
of the board.
Joined G4S board: May 2004
Previous experience: Senior appointments in
the police force, including Chief Constable of Kent
and Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, as
well as at the British Security Industry Association
and the International Cricket Council’s anticorruption
unit.
Current external commitments: Cross
bench member of the House of Lords; advisor
to international sports governing bodies; member
of the Advisory Board of Vidient Systems Inc;
and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Kent.
Mark Elliott
Non-executive director
Chairman – CSR Committee
Member – Nomination and Remuneration
Committees
Key strengths and specific G4S role:
Extensive international board and executive
experience, having held a number of senior
management positions in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa with responsibility for operations
in more than 110 countries. Has particular
involvement with the group’s businesses in
the Americas region.
Joined G4S board: September 2006
Previous experience: General manager
IBM Global Solutions; managing director of
IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa; member of
the board of IBAX, a hospital software company
jointly owned by IBM and Baxter Healthcare;
chairman of the Dean’s Advisory council of the
Kelly School of Business, Indiana University.
Current external commitments: Nonexecutive
chairman of QinetiQ Group plc;
non-executive director of Reed Elsevier PLC
and chairman of Reed Elsevier’s remuneration
committee.
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