British American Tobacco Annual Report 2010 - Board of Directors

Richard Burrows

nomination-committee

Position Chairman

Nationality Irish

Age 65

He has been a Director since September 2009 and Chairman since November 2009 and serves as Chairman of the Nominations Committee. Richard’s executive career has been with Irish Distillers, where he was Chief Executive from 1978-2000 and at Pernod Ricard, where he was Co-Chief Executive from 2000-2005, based in Paris. His current non-executive roles include Rentokil Initial and Carlsberg. He was Governor of the Bank of Ireland from 2005 until 2009.

Richard is a member of the Trilateral Commission which fosters closer co-operation among democratic industrialised nations and has also served as President of the Irish Business and Employers Confederation, Chairman of the National Development Corporation and Chairman of the Scotch Whisky Association.

Paul Adams

Position Chief Executive

Nationality British

Age 57

He was appointed a Director in March 2001 and Chief Executive in January 2004. Paul joined British American Tobacco in July 1991 and held senior appointments as Regional Director, Asia-Pacific and Regional Director, Europe prior to becoming Deputy Managing Director in June 2001 and Managing Director in January 2002.

Paul will retire as an Executive Director and Chief Executive on 28 February 2011.

Nicandro Durante

Position Chief Executive Designate

Nationality Brazilian/Italian

Age 54

He will become Chief Executive on 1 March 2011 having been Chief Executive Designate since 1 September 2010. Nicandro was appointed an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer in 2008 having previously been Regional Director for Africa and Middle East and a member of the Management Board since 2006. He has also held senior general management roles in Brazil (including President of Souza Cruz) and in the UK and Hong Kong.

Nicandro holds degrees in finance, economics and business administration and, having joined British American Tobacco in 1981, has wide experience in senior international finance and management roles within the Group.

Gerry Murphy

nomination-committee CSR committee remuneration committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality Irish

Age 55

Gerry was appointed a Director in 2009 and serves as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. He is a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group having previously been Chief Executive Officer of Kingfisher plc, Carlton Communications plc, Exel plc (formerly NFC plc) and Greencore Group plc. His earlier career included various management roles at Grand Metropolitan plc (now Diageo plc) in Ireland, the UK and the US.

Gerry’s previous non-executive appointments have included Reckitt Benckiser plc, Abbey National plc, Novar plc and PJ Carroll Holdings plc, an Irish subsidiary of British American Tobacco.

Karen de Segundo

nomination committee CSR committee remuneration committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality Dutch

Age 64

Karen was appointed a Director in 2007 and serves as Chair of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and as a member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She joined Shell in 1971 and gained valuable experience in senior executive roles in several countries before retiring as CEO of Shell International Renewables and President of Shell Hydrogen in 2005.

Karen is currently a Non-Executive Director of Lonmin plc, Ensus Holdings Limited, E.ON AG, Pöyry Oyj and Royal Ahold NV. She is a Council Member of the Anglo Netherlands Society.

Kieran Poynter

nomination-committee CSR committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality British

Age 60

Kieran was appointed a Director on 1 July 2010 and serves as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility and Nominations Committees. He is a Non-Executive Director of International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A., Nomura International PLC, F&C Asset Management PLC and The Royal Automobile Club Limited and has served on the President’s Committee of the Confederation of British Industry.

Kieran, a chartered accountant, retired as Chairman and Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2008 after 37 years with the firm during which time he lead the successful integration of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand following their merger in 1998.

Ben Stevens

Position Finance Director and Chief Information Officer

Nationality British

Age 51

He has been Finance Director since 2008 and took on the additional role of Chief Information Officer in September 2010. Ben was appointed to the Management Board in 2001 as Development Director and as Director, Europe in 2004.

Ben is a graduate of Manchester University and the Manchester Business School in the UK and, since joining British American Tobacco in 1990, has held a number of senior finance and general management roles around the world including Head of Merger Integration following the merger with Rothmans and Chairman and Managing Director of the Pakistan Tobacco Company and Managing Director of British American Tobacco Russia.

John Daly

Position Chief Operating Officer

Nationality Irish

Age 54

He was appointed as an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer in September 2010, having originally been appointed to the Management Board as Regional Director for Asia-Pacific in October 2004. Following the departure of the Group Human Resources Director, John will assume temporary responsibility for that function from 1 March 2011.

He was appointed a Director of the Group’s associate company, Reynolds American Inc., in December 2010.

John joined the Group in 1994 and has held a number of senior management roles in Europe and the Far East including Area Director for the Middle East and North Africa in 2001.

Dr Ana Maria Llopis

CSR committee nominations committee remuneration committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality Spanish

Age 60

Ana Maria was appointed a Director in 2003 and serves as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She is Founder and Executive Chairman of Global ideas4all, Executive Deputy Chairman of the J F Llopis Foundation and a Director of Service Point Solutions, S.A. (Spain). Ana Maria was a member of the Good Governance Working Group for Spanish listed companies and has served as CEO of OpenBank (part of Banco Santander) and as a Non-Executive Director of ABN AMRO Bank from 2007 until March 2010.

Ana Maria will retire as a Non-Executive Director at the conclusion of the AGM on 28 April 2011.

Robert Lerwill

nomination-committee audit committee remuneration committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality British

Age 59

Robert was appointed a Director in 2005 and serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees. He is currently Chairman of Synergy Health plc and a Non- Executive Director of Transcom Worldwide S.A.

Robert is a chartered accountant. He was formerly a Director of Cable & Wireless plc and WPP Group PLC where he was instrumental in developing and managing major international businesses for both companies. Robert also served as Chief Executive of Aegis Group plc until 2008.

Anthony Ruys

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Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality Dutch

Age 63

Anthony was appointed a Director in 2006 and serves as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and as a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of the Rijksmuseum and JANIVO Holdings BV (NL) and is a Director of Lottomatica S.p.A. (Italy). Anthony worked at Unilever for nearly 20 years before joining Heineken in 1993 as a member of its Executive Board, becoming Vice Chairman in 1996 and Chairman in 2002, before retiring in 2005.

In 2009 he was appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Group’s Indian associate, ITC Limited, and, also in 2009, he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NV Luchthaven Schiphol (NL).

Sir Nicholas Scheele

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Position Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Nationality British/US

Age 67

Nick was appointed a Director in 2005 and Senior Independent Director in 2008. He also serves as a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. Nick was President and Chief Operating Officer of Ford Motor Company until his retirement in 2005. He was Chancellor of Warwick University from 2002 until 2008.

Nick is Chairman of The Cambridge- MIT Institute, Key Safety Systems, Inc. (USA) and Global Metalsa SA de CV (Mexico) and a Director of Grupo Proeza (Mexico). He was knighted in 2001 for services to British exports.

Christine Morin-Postel

nomination committee audit committee remuneration committee

Position Non-Executive Director

Nationality French

Age 64

Christine was appointed a Director in 2007 and serves as a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees. She previously held a number of executive positions including Chief Executive of Société Générale de Belgique, Executive Vice-President and member of the Executive Committee of Suez and Chairman and CEO of Crédisuez S.A. before her retirement in 2003.

Christine is currently a Non-Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, EXOR S.p.A. (Italy) and 3i Group plc.