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Albert KaufmannGeneral CounselSwiss, age 61Appointed to the Group’s Management Committee 2000Mr Kaufmann holds a degree from the Faculty of Lawof the University of Geneva and has been admitted to theGeneva Bar. He joined Cartier in 1974 to lead its legaldepartment and has since been responsible for the legalaffairs of the Group’s luxury goods companies. He wasa member of the board of Cartier International and adirector of Vendôme Luxury Group. He was appointedto his current position as Group General Counsel in 1999.Mr Kaufmann is a member of the board of the Federationof the Swiss Watch Industry.Thomas LindemannGroup Human Resources DirectorGerman, age 45Appointed to the Group’s Management Committee 2005Mr Lindemann is a graduate in economics from MannheimUniversity. From 1989, he held a variety of humanresources and commercial roles in the consumer productscompany, Wella Group, before joining Montblanc in 1998as Human Resources Director. He assumed the role ofDirector of Human Resources for Richemont NorthernEurope in 2002 and was appointed Group HumanResources Director in April 2005.Eloy MichotteCorporate Finance DirectorBelgian, age 61Appointed to the Group’s Management Committee 1988Mr Michotte graduated in engineering from the Universityof Louvain in Belgium and holds an MBA from theUniversity of Chicago. He has had an extensive career ininternational business and finance, having worked withFord, McKinsey & Co and Bankers Trust Company priorto joining Richemont at the time of its formation in 1988.As Head of Corporate Finance, he has responsibility, inparticular, for mergers and acquisitions and serves on theboards of a number of companies in which the Grouphas an interest, including Net-à-Porter Limited.In addition to his role within Richemont, he is an ExecutiveDirector of the management companies of both ReinetInvestments S.C.A. and its subsidiary Reinet Fund S.C.A.F.I.S. (together ‘Reinet’). Reinet was established in October2008 to hold the non-luxury goods interests of Richemont.Frederick MostertLead Counsel and Chief IntellectualProperty CounselSouth African, age 49Appointed to the Group’s Management Committee 1994Dr Mostert holds a masters degree from ColumbiaUniversity School of Law in New York City and adoctorate from the University of Johannesburg. He isa member of the New York Bar, a solicitor of Englandand Wales, and practised corporate law at Shearmanand Sterling and international intellectual propertylaw at Fross, Zelnick, Lehrman & Zissu in New York.He joined Richemont in 1990.Dr Mostert is a past President of the InternationalTrademark Association, serves on the Advisory Councilof the McCarthy Center for Intellectual Property andTechnology Law, is a guest professor at Peking Universityand a Fellow of the London School of Economics. He isa Director of Freedom Under Law, Laureus World SportsAwards Limited, Walpole, Bespoke Innovations Sàrl andColumbus VC Limited, a subsidiary of Reinet.Richemont Annual Report and Accounts 2009 49Corporate governance