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Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee (born 28 September 1946) is a Dutch businessman and engineer. He is the chairman of Vodafone , and of the supervisory board of ASML and the former president and CEO of Philips .
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Jan 12, 2007 · Kleisterlee makes an unlikely revolutionary. The 60-year-old engineer has spent his entire career at Philips, which was founded in the drab Dutch city of Eindhoven in 1891 by the Philips brothers ...
Gerard has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2015, and has been chair since 2016 (second term expires in 2023). Gerard was the President and CEO of the Board of Management of Royal Philips NV from 2001 until 2011 after having served in various positions with the company since 1974. Non-executive board member at Ibex, Ltd (current ...
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Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee was born in Germany on 28 September 1946, to Dutch and German parents. He was raised in the Netherlands. Kleisterlee attended the Jesuit-run Canisius College in Nijmegen, before enrolling at Eindhoven University of Technology where he trained as an electronics engineer. He later studied abroad at the University of Pennsy...
Gerard Kleisterlee had devoted a large part of his life to Koninklijke Philips N.V. In 1981 – 1986 Gerard Kleisterlee was the General Manager of Philips’ Professional Audio Product Group. He then joined Philips Components in 1986, and eventually became General Manager of Philips Display Components for Europe. Kleisterlee was appointed Managing Dire...
Gerard Kleisterlee is married and has three children. The family lives in Amsterdam. Kleisterlee served as Director-general of Eindhoven Technical University and IMD Lausanne, and he currently serves as the Chairman of the Foundation of the Cancer Centre Amsterdam. He is also a Member of the Dutch Innovation Council (Innovatie Platform).
Gerard Kleisterlee Philips has undergone a profound transformation into a company with a structurally higher level of profitability based on a strong brand, a customer-centric approach and a simpler structure, which is a global leader in important markets.
Jul 1, 2007 · In an era of risk-takers, Gerard Kleisterlee’s way to success was being steadfast and forthright, clinging to the principles that have made Royal Philips Electronics a market leader over the long run. But in 2006, he made headlines for selling off his company’s second-most profitable arm to institute a stock buyback.
May 13, 2022 · Gerard Kleisterlee: Even within the same region, such as Europe, you find quite different practices across companies, although they all might have a common starting point with the same purpose and the same objectives. But in terms of implementation of the governance, you have the U.K. one-tier board, where, clearly, strategy is the role of the ...
