Vodafone Group Plc announced the appointment of Michel Demaré as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 February 2018. Michel Demaré served as Chief Financial Officer of ABB from 2005 to 2013 and was Chairman of the Board of Syngenta from 2013 to 2017. He currently is the independent Vice Chairman at UBS, having joined the board in 2009. Michel Demaré is also a board member for Louis Dreyfus Company Holdings BV, the vice-chairman of the Supervisory Board of the IMD Business School in Lausanne, and an advisory board member of the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.