Notes to the Financial Statements (cont'd) - Kenya Airways

8 Kenya Airways Annual Report & AccountsBiographies of the Board of Directors (cont’d)Mr. Peter F. Hartman (cont’d)Mr. Hartman joined KLM as a work analyst for the Controllers Department of Engineering &Maintenance on October 29, 1973. He was appointed Controller - Work for Third Parties atEngineering & Maintenance in 1975. In the years that followed he held various positions ascontroller in the Netherlands and abroad. In 1984, he was appointed Director - TechnicalContract Services responsible for sales of KLM technical maintenance services to otherairlines. In 1987 he was appointed Project Manager - Schiphol 2000. On January 1, 1989, hebecame Vice President - KLM Ground Services Schiphol. In this capacity he was responsiblefor all handling processes at Schiphol and all KLM outstations. Mr. Hartman became SeniorVice President - Customer Services on October 1, 1990, and on April 15, 1994, he was appointedExecutive Vice President - Personnel & Organization. On January 1, 1996, Mr. Hartman took upthe post of Executive Vice President - Engineering & Maintenance followed by his appointmenton August 6, 1997 to the KLM Board of Managing Directors. On the 1st of April, 2007, he becamethe President and CEO of KLM.Mr. Ron Schipper ; Non-Executive Director (65)Mr. Ron Schipper was born in 1945 in Bussum in the Netherlands. He joined KLM in 1969,flew for 3 years as a cabin attendant and was then transferred to cabin crew managementwhere he worked in various management positions until 1977. He was appointed Manager ofthe Cabin Crew Training Department at Schiphol in the same year. He left the Netherlandsin 1980 for his first posting abroad as Manager Cabin Crew seconded to Nigeria Airways inLagos. In 1982 he was appointed Sales Manager, Kenya based in Nairobi after which he wastransferred to the UK in 1984 as District Manager, Northern England based in Manchester. In1986 Mr. Schipper was appointed General Manager Ghana and in 1989 he spent a brief periodin France as interim General Manager based in Paris before returning to the Netherlands totake up the appointment of Executive Secretary of the Passenger Division. Thereafter he wasseconded in 1991 to Antillean Airlines in Curacao as Managing Director. He returned to thecontinent close to his heart, Africa, in 1994 and currently holds the position of Vice Presidentand Area Manager Africa based in Johannesburg where he currently lives.Mr. Denis D. Afande ; Non-Executive Director (73)Mr. Afande was for many years a career diplomat, having served in various positions includingAmbassador to the United States of America and United Nations, Geneva. He also served asPermanent Secretary (Ministries of Home Affairs and Health). His previous appointments also includechairmanship of the Capital Markets Authority, Kenya Power and Lighting Company and NationalCouncil for Children Services. He is currently a member of several other charitable organizations.He was appointed to the Board of Kenya Airways on 26th November 2004 and is currently theChairman of the Board’s Staff and Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee.Mr. Joseph Kinyua ; Non-Executive Director (58)Mr. Kinyua is the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance. He is a career economist havingserved in various capacities in the Treasury and Central Bank. He has also been involved inseveral projects with the International Monetary Fund both within Kenya and abroad. He holdsMA and BA degrees in Economics (University of Nairobi). He is currently a member of the Board’sAudit and Risk Management Committee and the Nominations Committee.Mr. Ayisi Makatiani ; Non-Executive Director (43)Mr. Makatiani has extensive management experience and operational knowledge of Africanmarkets. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (MIT). He is currently Managing Director and Chief Executive Officerof African Management Services Company. He has previously served as Managing Partner ofGallium Partners Investments, Non-executive chairman of MCI/UUNET Africa and Founder andChief Executive Officer of Africa Online Holdings. Mr. Makatiani has been voted among the leadingtop 15 CEOs in East Africa, three years in a row, in the annual PricewaterhouseCoopers-NationMedia Group survey of the top CEO’s in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. He is currently amember of the Board’s Staff and Remuneration Committee.Mrs. Salma Mazrui-Watt ; Non-Executive Director (44)Mrs. Mazrui-Watt has significant expertise in business leadership, sales and marketing,corporate communications and strategic planning in both the private and public sectors and isan organizational development specialist. She is currently the Regional Director, PartnershipsDevelopment and External Relations, WWF East & Southern Africa Regional Programme Office(ESARPO). Salma was Group Head of Marketing, Africa Online Holdings Ltd., Managing Director,Trans Union Kenya Ltd. and was the Vice Chair for the East African Credit Bureau Association(EACBA). Between September 2004 and December 2005, she was CEO for the Kenya PrivateSector Alliance (KEPSA) and was the Chief Operative Office for AAR Health Services where sheworked for 9 years across Eastern Africa. Prior to that she ran her own business, CorporatePromotions, a freelance corporate communications firm from 1991 to 1996. She has extensivework experience in east, west and southern Africa. Salma holds a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Economics from George Mason University, Virginia, USA and a Masters in BusinessAdministration from the University of Nairobi. She has a Certificate in Corporate Governancefrom the Commonwealth Association on Corporate Governance. She is a member of Kenya’sNational Economic and Social Council and is on the Governing Council for KCA University inNairobi. She is also a director of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife and a non-executivedirector of Kenya Airways.Mr. Veenstra is a Chartered Accountant. After completing his studies at the University ofGroningen in 1991 he worked with KPMG as an auditor. He joined KLM in 1996. He has beenVice President Finance & Control of KLM Engineering & Maintenance from 2001 till 2005. Since2005 he has been Vice President Mergers, Acquisitions and Holdings, and in that position he isresponsible for the monitoring of KLM’s holdings. He is a member of the Kenya Airways’ Boardand the Audit and Risk Management Committee.