– UK, Newbury – Vodafone Group Plc (LON: VOD) announced the appointment of Simon Dingemans to its Board as a non-executive director with effect from 1 January 2025.
“I am delighted to welcome Simon to Vodafone’s Board. He is a highly regarded business leader with extensive financial, operational and strategic experience. Simon’s expertise will be a valuable addition to the Board as we continue to drive the execution of Vodafone’s strategy to achieve our commercial priorities and deliver long-term value to our shareholders.” said Board Chaiman, Jean-François van Boxmeer.
Simon Dingemans will also join the Audit & Risk Committee.
About. Simon Dingemans
Simon Dingemans is an experienced leader and former CFO with a varied career combining both operational and financial roles. From 2011 to 2019, he was Group CFO of GSK where he played a key role in delivering extensive transformation and restructuring efforts to improve performance and reshape the organization into two distinct biopharma and consumer healthcare businesses. As Group CFO, he led GSK’s Finance and Global business services organizations including technology, real estate, and procurement as well as driving several operational efficiency programs that contributed over £7 billion in cost savings alongside significant simplification of GSK’s business.
Before GSK, Simon Dingemans worked in investment banking for over 25 years at SG Warburg and then at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Partner and Head of UK investment banking as well as a leader in the European Mergers business. Simon also previously served as Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council.
Simon Dingemans said: “I am very pleased to be joining the Board of Vodafone, and I look forward to working with Jean-Francois and the other directors to support Margherita and the executive team in driving the strategy forward.”
Simon Dingemans serves as Chair of Genomics, a pioneering healthcare company, and as a non-executive director of WPP plc, the FTSE 100 global creative transformation company, where he is a member of the audit committee. Simon is also the independent Chair of Calastone, a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. Calastone is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial institutions.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is a leading European and African telecoms company. We provide mobile and fixed services to over 330 million customers in 15 countries (excludes Italy which is held as a discontinued operation under Vodafone Group), partner with mobile networks in 45 more, and have one of the world’s largest IoT platforms. In Africa, our financial technology businesses serve almost 79 million customers across seven countries – managing more transactions than any other provider.
Our purpose is to connect for a better future by using technology to improve lives, and businesses and help progress inclusive sustainable societies. We are committed to reducing our environmental impact to reach net zero emissions by 2040.
For more: https://www.vodafone.com/
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