Anton van Rossum
Born 1945 - Dutch Citizen
Credit Suisse Group
Paradeplatz 8
8070 Zurich, Switzerland
Anton van Rossum has been a member of the Board since 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he served on the Compensation Committee, and in 2008 he was appointed to the Risk Committee. His term as a member of the Board expires at the AGM in 2011. The Board has determined him to be independent under the Group’s independence standards.
Anton van Rossum was the
Chief Executive Officer of Fortis, the leading Benelux banking and insurance
group from 2000 to 2004. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of
Fortis and chaired the Boards of the principal subsidiaries of the group.
Prior to that, Mr. van
Rossum worked for 28 years with McKinsey and Company, where he led a number
of top management consulting assignments with a focus on the banking and insurance
sectors. He was elected Principal and a Director of the firm in 1979 and 1986,
respectively.
He studied economics and
business administration at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he obtained
a bachelor’s degree in 1965 and a master’s degree in 1969.
Mr. van Rossum is a member of the Board of Solvay S.A., Brussels, the international chemicals and pharmaceuticals group (since 2006), of Rodamco Europe, a pan-European commercial real estate group (since 2007), and of Vopak NV, Rotterdam (since 2007) whose Chairman he has recently become. He is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Conference Board, the Chairman of the Netherlands Economic Institute, the International President of the European League for Economic Cooperation and sits on the Board of several cultural, philanthropic and educational institutions.