Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Harold Brown
Director
Dr. Brown has been a Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies since 1992. He was a partner of Warburg Pincus, a leading private equity firm, from 1990 until his retirement in 2007. Previously, he was Chairman of the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Brown is President Emeritus and life trustee of the California Institute of Technology and served as Secretary of Defense for the United States from 1977 through 1981. Dr. Brown is a member of the board of directors of Chemical Engineering Partners, Inc., a member of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission and a Trustee Emeritus of the RAND Corporation. Dr. Brown served as a Director of Altria Group, Inc. from 1983 to 2003, and again from 2004 to 2008. At PMI, Dr. Brown is Chair of the Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committee and a member of the Compensation and Leadership Development and Finance Committees.
André Calantzopoulos
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Calantzopoulos became our Chief Executive Officer immediately following our Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 8, 2013. He served as our Chief Operating Officer since our spin-off on March 28, 2008, and until becoming CEO. Mr. Calantzopoulos served as PMI’s President and Chief Executive Officer between 2002 and the date of our spin-off. He joined the company in 1985 and worked extensively across Central Europe, including as Managing Director of PM Poland and President of the EEMA Region.
Louis C. Camilleri
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Camilleri is our Chairman, having served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from our spin-off in 2008 until the 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Camilleri remained Chairman and an employee of the company following the 2013 Annual Meeting. He retired effective December 31, 2014, and continues to serve as a non-employee Chairman. Before our spin-off, Mr. Camilleri was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Altria Group, Inc., positions he had held since 2002. From 1996 to 2002, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Altria Group, Inc. He had been employed continuously by Altria Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (including Philip Morris International Inc.) in various capacities since 1978. Mr. Camilleri is a director of América Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. and Ferrari N.V. He previously served on the Board of Telmex International SAB from 2009 to 2011. Mr. Camilleri was a director of Kraft Foods Inc. from 2001 to 2007 and was Kraft’s Chairman from 2002 to 2007.
Massimo Ferragamo
DIRECTOR
Mr. Ferragamo has served as Chairman of Ferragamo USA Inc. since 2000, having previously served as President of that company since 1985. He is also Vice President of the Lungarno Hotel Group and Executive Vice President of the Ferragamo Foundation. Mr. Ferragamo is a director of Ferragamo Finanziaria S.p.A. and served on the board of directors of Yum! Brands, Inc. from 1997 until 2016. Mr. Ferragamo is a member of the Finance and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Werner Geissler
Director
Mr. Geissler became an Operating Partner of Advent International in 2015. He previously served as Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Procter and Gamble until his retirement in January 2015. He joined that company in 1979 and served in various capacities, including President, Northeast Asia, from 2001 to 2004, Group President, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, from 2004 to 2007, and Vice Chairman, Global Operations, from 2007 to 2014. Mr. Geissler is a director of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He is Chair of the Compensation and Leadership Development Committee and a member of the Audit, Finance, and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Lisa Hook
Director
Ms. Hook has served as Chief Executive Officer of Neustar, Inc. since October 2010, as a member of its board since November 2010, and as President since January 2008. She was President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunrocket, Inc. from 2006 to 2007, and held several executive-level posts at America Online, Inc. from 2001 to 2004. Previously, she was a partner at Brera Capital Partners, a global private equity investment firm, managing director of Alpine Capital Group, LLC., an investment banking firm, an executive at Time Warner, Inc., a legal advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and a senior attorney at Viacom International, Inc. Ms. Hook serves on the board of Worldpay, Inc., a payment processing firm. Ms. Hook was as a senior independent director of RELX PLC and RELX NV, providers of information solutions, from 2006 to 2016. Previously, she served as a director of Covad Communications, Time Warner Telecom, Inc., and National Geographic Ventures. In 2012, she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
Jennifer Li
Director
Jun Makihara
Director
Mr. Makihara was employed at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1981 to 2000, during which time he was a General Partner for six years, working in New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. During his tenure in Tokyo, he was co-head of the investment banking group and the Japanese equities group and also served as co-branch manager. Subsequently, he was Chairman of Neoteny Co., Ltd., a Japanese venture incubator, until 2015. Mr. Makihara is a director of Monex Group, Inc. and Shinsei Bank, Ltd. He is a trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation in Washington, D.C., and a board member of the Japan Society in New York. He also served on the board of RHJ International S.A. from 2005 to 2014. Mr. Makihara is Chair of the Finance Committee and a member of the Audit and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Kalpana Morparia
Director
Ms. Morparia assumed her current position as CEO South and South East Asia for J.P. Morgan Chase in April 2016, having previously served as CEO of J.P. Morgan India since 2008. She is a member of J.P. Morgan’s Asia Pacific Management Committee. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan India, Ms. Morparia served as Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank, India’s second-largest bank, from 2001 to 2007 and the Vice Chair of ICICI’s insurance and asset management business from 2007 to 2008. Ms. Morparia is a director of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. and Hindustan Unilever Limited. She is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the Finance and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Lucio A. Noto
Director
Mr. Noto assumed his current position as Managing Partner of Midstream Partners, LLC in March 2001. He retired as Vice Chairman of ExxonMobil Corporation in January 2001, a position he had held since the merger of the Exxon and Mobil companies in November 1999. Before the merger, Mr. Noto was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mobil Corporation. Mr. Noto had been employed by Mobil continuously since 1962. Mr. Noto is a director of Penske Automotive Group, Inc. He also served on the boards of IBM from 1995 to 2008, Altria Group, Inc. from 1998 to 2008, Shinsei Bank from 2005 to 2008, Commercial International Bank from 2006 to 2009, and RHJ International S.A. from 2011 to 2015. Mr. Noto is the Presiding Director, and a member of the Audit, Compensation and Leadership Development, Finance, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.
Frederik Paulsen
Director
Dr. Paulsen has been Chairman of the Ferring Group, a research-driven, specialty biopharmaceutical group since 1988, having joined that company in 1976. Dr. Paulsen is a member of the boards of MGIMO University in Moscow, Russia, and the Pro Universitate of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, and a trustee of the Salk Institute of Biological Research in La Jolla, California, USA. Dr. Paulsen is a member of the Finance and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Robert B. Polet
Director
Mr. Polet is currently serving as Chairman of Rituals Cosmetics Enterprise B.V. He was Chairman of Safilo Group S.p.A. from 2011 to 2017, and President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of the Gucci Group from 2004 to 2011. Previously, Mr. Polet spent 26 years in the Unilever Group in a variety of executive roles, including President of Unilever’s Worldwide Ice Cream and Frozen Foods division, Chairman of Unilever Malaysia, Chairman of Van den Bergh and Executive Vice President of Unilever’s European Home and Personal Care division. He is a director of Safilo Group S.p.A., William Grant & Sons Limited, and Arica Holding B.V. Mr. Polet serves on the Compensation and Leadership Development, Finance, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
Stephen M. Wolf
Director
Mr. Wolf has been Managing Partner of Alpilles, LLC since 2003. Previously, he was Chairman of US Airways Group from 2001 to 2003, and Chief Executive Officer of US Airways, Inc. from 1996 to 1998. Prior to joining US Airways, he had served since 1994 as senior advisor in the investment banking firm of Lazard Frères & Co., LLC. From 1987 to 1994, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UAL Corporation and United Air Lines, Inc. Mr. Wolf is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Trilantic Capital Partners and served as Chairman of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company from 2004 to 2014. Mr. Wolf served as a director of Altria Group, Inc. from 1993 to 2008 and as a director of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. from 2009 to 2017. He is a trustee emeritus of the Brookings Institute. Mr. Wolf is a member of the Audit, Compensation and Leadership Development, Finance, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Product Innovation and Regulatory Affairs Committees.
