Directors and officers

Peter Ellwood (65)

Chairman

Appointed to the Board as a non executive director on 1 February 2008 and as Chairman on 1 May 2008. Peter was Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries PLC (ICI) until ICI was acquired by Akzo Nobel NV at the beginning of 2008. Prior to that, he was Group Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Group plc. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Akzo Nobel NV.

Peter Ellwood

Chairman

Peter Ellwood

Non executive directors

Michael Buzzacott
Noreen Doyle
John Langston
Wolfgang Meusburger
Jean-Pierre Rodier
Carl Symon

Executive directors

Leslie Van de Walle
Graham Chipchase
David Robbie

Company secretary

David Gibson

 

The Board considers that all the non executive directors are independent.

Changes to the Board

Rolf Börjesson retired as Chairman of the Company on 1 May 2008. Bill Barker, Group Director Beverage Cans, resigned as an executive director on 7 January 2009.

Senior management

Together with the executive directors, the following are part of Rexam’s senior management team. In addition to his Group Director role, Graham Chipchase has responsibility for the Plastic Packaging Healthcare division.

  • Tomas Sjölin
    Beverage Can Europe & Asia
  • Harry Barto
    Beverage Can North America
  • André Balbi
    Beverage Can South America
  • Simon Chiu
    Plastic Packaging Asia
  • David Beckmann
    Plastic Packaging Closures
  • Misha Riveros-Jacobson
    Plastic Packaging Personal Care
  • Jonathan Thornton
    Communications
  • Roger Bellis
    Human Resources
  • Paul Martin
    Information Management
  • David Gibson
    Legal