GOVERNANCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CONTINUED S INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS CONTINUED SHAREHOLDER REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTORS TR A TE G I C R E P O R T G O DR. ANNE STEVENS JEAN TOMLIN, OBE MICHAEL DE PICCIOTTO FRANZ REINER VE R Independent Non-executive Independent Non-executive Non-executive Director, Non-executive Director, NAN Director Director Representative of the Yew Tree Representative of Mercedes- A N R S N Consortium Benz AG C Appointed: February 2021 Appointed: October 2023 A W A N R E Nationality: American Nationality: British Appointed: April 2020 Appointed: July 2021 Nationality: Italian Nationality: American F I NAN WORKFORCE ENGAGEMENT Skills and relevant experience Skills and relevant experience Skills and relevant experience C DIRECTOR Jean joined the Board in October Michael is a prominent investor and Franz has been the CEO of IAL 2023 as an Independent businessman who has extensive Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG since S Skills and relevant experience Non-executive Director. experience in investments, June 2019. The company finances T Anne brings to the Board significant A management and finance. and leases every second vehicle T operational, commercial and Jean is the founder and CEO of E transformational experience in delivered by Mercedes-Benz. M Chanzo Limited, a firm that Michael started his career at RBC E global businesses. Anne is an Under his management, N provides consulting, operational Dominion Securities, a global Mercedes-Benz Mobility has T engineer and started her career in delivery and international Canadian investment bank before established itself viable for the S the chemical industry with Exxon recruitment services to major event joining Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), Corporation before moving to and sport sectors. a family-owned Swiss private bank future with its three core financial automotive with the Ford Motor services activities, fleet F Jean served as Director of Human in London and Geneva where he management and digital mobility U Company (1990-2006). During her R Resources of the London worked for 27 years until 2015. solutions. Since joining the T 16-year tenure at Ford, Anne held a During his tenure at UBP, Michael H Organising Committee of the company in 1992, the industrial E number of senior positions, held a number of senior leadership R culminating in her being the Chief Olympic and Paralympic Games positions including responsibility engineer has held various positions, INF from 2006 to March 2013. Jean was including Head of Sales & Operating OfÏcer for the Americas. also the Group HR Director at for UBP’s global financial activities. Marketing and Member of the OR On retiring from Ford, Anne joined He also served as a long-standing Carpenter Technology Corporation Marks & Spencer plc and prior to member of the Executive Board Board of Management for the M that she spent 15 years at private and corporate customer A (2006-2009) as its Chairman, of UBP. T I President and Chief Executive Prudential plc and nine years at business of Mercedes-Benz Bank. ON Ford Motor Company in various In March 2016 Michael became a In 2009, Franz Reiner was appointed OfÏcer. Anne has extensive human resources management large shareholder and the to the Management Board of Non-executive Director experience positions. Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Mercedes-Benz Mobility – initially and has previously served as Board of Engel & Volkërs AG, a responsible for the Americas Chairman, CEO and Principal of SA External appointments Hamburg-based leading global region, and from 2011 for the IT (2011-2014), as a Non-executive – Chanzo Limited (CEO) real estate group, which was sold in Europe region. Director on the board of XL Group – Capri Holdings Limited August 2021 to the investment fund and Lockheed Martin before joining External appointments GKN plc as a Non-executive (Non-executive Director) Permira. – Hakluyt & Company Ltd – Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG Director where she was briefly CEO In 2018, Michael joined a (CEO and Chairman of the during the hostile takeover by (Non-executive Director) consortium of investors to buy out Melrose plc in 2018. Anne received Board) what would become the Aston – VfB Stuttgart 1983 AG a BS in Materials and Mechanical Martin Formula One team and in Engineering from Drexel University (Supervisory Board Member) 2020 joined the Yew Tree – Mercedes-Benz Leasing in 1980 and was elected to the Consortium in the acquisition of its Deutschland GmbH (Supervisory National Academy of Engineering stake in Aston Martin. in 2004. Board member) Michael studied at the Ecole des – Allianz Global Corporate and Speciality SE (Advisory Council) External appointments Hautes Etudes Commerciales at the – Harbour Energy plc University of Lausanne. (Non-executive Director and External appointments Remuneration Committee Chair) – AMR GP Holdings Limited (Director) – AMR Performance Group Key Limited (Director) Chair  Observer     A Audit and Risk Committee  N Nomination Committee  R Remuneration Committee  S Sustainability Committee W Warrant Share Committee           ASTON MARTIN LAGONDA ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2023 78