GOVERNANCE

Directors' Profile

We are privileged, to have a visionary leadership on our board. Our directors brings varied experience of transformational successes to the table. FrieslandCampina executives brings the global dairy legacy of 148 years and Engro Foods leadership provides us with the strategic guidance and input to deliver faster and better decisions.

Abdul Samad Dawood

Chairmain

Mr. Dawood joined the Company in 2009 and now serves as the Chairman of FCEPL. He sits on the Board of Dawood Lawrencepur Limited, Engro Fertilizer Limited, Reon (Pvt.) Limited and Tenaga Generasi Limited. He is also a Trustee on the Board of The Dawood Foundation.

He has served as CEO of Cyan Limited and Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited. He has also been a Director on the Boards of International Industries Limited, ABL Asset Management Company Limited, Sui-Northern Gas Pipeline Company Limited and World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan.

He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Mr. Dawood is a graduate in Economics from University College London, UK.

Ali Ahmed Khan

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Khan has a rich experience spanning over 25 years in top management positions with leading FMCGs. He has been credited with turning around businesses and leading them to industry leadership. He joined the Company in March 2017.

His prior assignments include leading Personal Care at Iffco in the UAE and Far East, as well as Reckitt Benckiser (Pakistan) Limited, as CEO.

He has also been associated with Pakistan Tobacco Company Limited as Marketing & Sales Director and with Pepsi-Cola International as Head of Marketing. Mr. Khan has an MBA from Institute of Business Administration, Karachi.

Roeland Francois Van Neerbos

President FrieslandCampina CD

In January 2017, Roeland Francois Van Neerbos joined FrieslandCampina as Chief Operating Officer Consumer Products Europe Middle East and Africa Business Group of Royal FrieslandCampina.

The Business Group EMEA consist of a vast geographic territory with distinctive markets in terms of standard of living, dairy consumption and sophistication of retail environment, offering room for a balance strategy between value-added growth and milk valorization.

As of January 2018, Roeland leads the new Business Group Consumer Dairy Global. Until Mid-2016 Roeland Francois Van Neerbos was Chief Executive Officer of Maxeda, a Do-It-Yourself retailer operating more than 350 stores with around 7,000 employees across the Benelux. Before that, he spent 8 years at Heinz as President Continental Europe and 4 years at Mattel as Senior Vice-President Iberia, EEMEA and Latin America based in Spain.

During the first 16 years of his career Roeland held various executive positions at Procter & Gamble in The Netherlands, Belgium, Yemen and Morocco. He studied Business Administration at the University of Groningen.

Zouhair Abdul Khaliq

Partner at ICE Advisory LLP

Zouhair is an international business executive with experience in board level strategy, operations, M&A, startups, turnarounds, telecommunication, mobile financial services, micro-finance, mobile related services and real estate.

Zouhair is Managing Partner at ICE Advisory LLP and holds a portfolio of Advisory and Non-Executive Board positions. During his career he has worked with Orascom Telecom Holdings, the GSMA, Gemini Holdings (the Sawiris Family Office), Motorola UK, the Dhabi Group, Millicom International, the ICI Group and PWC.

He served as Managing Director, Mobile for Development, GSM Association working on development of ecosystems for mobile financial services, off-grid energy and mHealth. Zouhair as CEO of Mobilink in 2003-2008 led the growth of the Company from 1 million to 31 million customers building Mobilink in to a billion dollar company.

He has served on the Boards of mobile operations in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Jordan and on the Boards of the public sector at the Islamabad Stocks Exchange, the ICT R&D Fund and as Senior Advisor to the Better Than Cash Alliance and United Nations Capital Development Fund.

He has recently served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of (Du Telecom) Emirates Integrated Telecom Investment Holdings Limited, Senior Advisor at Voltaire Capital in the UK, and the Advisory Board of Ding Ireland, a mobile top-up company. He is currently on the Advisory Board of Field Force LLC USA, a software analytics company. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Harris Manchester College, Oxford University in the UK, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an alumni of INSEAD, France.

Petra Attje Zinkweg

Program Director FrieslandCampina CD

Petra Attje Zinkweg is the Business Group HR Director Consumer Diary of Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. Before that, she held a variety of Management positions at FrieslandCampina N.V. and Unilever.

She has extensive experience in the domains of Human Resource and Marketing. She holds a Masters degree in Sports Science from the Free University of Amsterdam. She joined the Board of the Company in 2018.

Eduardus Lambertus Holtzer

Finance Director FrieslandCampina CD

Eduardus Lambertus Holtzer is Finance Director of FrieslandCampina Consumer Dairy and has been working for FrieslandCampina since 2012. Prior to that, he held several leadership positions at Unilever, a.o Vice President Finance at Unilever Spain and Director M&A at Unilever Corporate Center in the UK.

He holds a Master of Business Economics from the University of Brabant, from The Netherlands and a Postgraduate degree in Controlling/ Management Accounting at VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He joined the Board of the Company in 2018.

Abrar Hasan

CEO National Foods Limited

Abrar Hasan is the Chief Executive Officer of National Foods Limited (NFL), the leading multi-category food company in Pakistan. Mr. Hasan is providing direction to the company by setting a clear vision for future growth to become a Rs. 50 billion company by the year 2020.

He has actively pursued new market opportunities and delivered successful strategies by focusing on continuous innovation, highest standards of quality and superior consumer value.

Being a staunch supporter of Corporate Social Responsibility he also initiated the Adult Literacy Programme in collaboration with the Citizens Foundation (TCF), which aims to equipe rural women with basic literacy skills. In 2007, he spearheaded the development of a sustainability strategy of the company, which is today guiding all business functions across the board.

He has received numerous accolades, including Marketing Excellence Award 2008 from the Marketing Association of Pakistan (MAP) and the Best Workplace Award 2015.

He is member of the Board of Directors of various strategic forums like the Associated Textile Consultants, Cherat Packaging Ltd, Pakistan Business Council, and the Health Foundation. Mr. Hasan is a graduate of the Krannert School of Management at the Purdue University in Indiana, USA.

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