London, United Kingdom - October 6, 2014, London, United Kingdom - GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) announced the appointment of Urs Rohner to its board as a non-executive director, effective January 1, 2015.
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On appointment, Mr. Rohner will also become a member of GSK's Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Rohner has been Chairman of of Credit Suisse Group AG and the Chairman's and Governance Committee since the 2011 AGM. He was Vice-Chairman of the Board and a member of the Chairman's and Governance and Risk Committees (2009 to 2011).
Mr. Rohner was a member of the Executive Boards of the Group (2004 to 2009) and Credit Suisse (2005 to 2009) and served as General Counsel of the Group (2004 to 2009), as COO (2006 to 2009) and General Counsel of the Bank (2005 to 2009). His term as a Board member expires at the AGM in 2015. The Board has determined him to be independent under the Group’s independence standards.
Mr. Rohner served as chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of ProSieben and ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG (2000 to 2004) and CEO of ProSieben Media AG (2000). He was a partner at Lenz & Staehelin (1992 to 1999) and an attorney with the law firms Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York (1988 to 1989) and Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich (1990 to 1992, 1983 to 1988).
Mr. Rohner graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1983. He was admitted to the bars of the canton of Zurich in 1986 and the state of New York in 1990.
Mr. Rohner is the chairman and a member of the board of trustees of the Credit Suisse Research Institute and the Credit Suisse Foundation.
Mr. Rohner serves as a board member or advisory board member for a number of international organizations, including the Institute of International Finance and the Institut International d’Etudes Bancaires, the European Financial Services Round Table, the European Banking Group and the international advisory board of the Moscow International Financial Center and serves on the International Business Leaders Advisory Council of the Mayor of Beijing.
Since 2013, Mr. Rohner is a member of the Expert Committee of the Swiss Federal Council regarding the further development of the financial market strategy. ■