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Daniel Johannesson (born 1943)
Non-Executive Chairman Chairman of the Compensation and Nomination Committees and member of the Audit Committee since February 2009
Daniel Johannesson was elected to the Board of Millicom in May 2003. He became Chairman on March 8, 2004. He has held a number of executive positions at major Swedish and Norwegian companies including Chief Executive Officer of Telenor Bedrift and Executive Vice President at the construction company Skanska, where he was responsible for their telecommunications and facilities management interests. He was also Chief Executive Officer of Investment AB Kinnevik and Director General of the Swedish national railway operator, SJ. He is also Chairman of Unibet Group PLC.
Mia Brunell Livfors (born 1965)
Non-Executive Director Chairman of the CSR Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee
Mia Brunell Livfors was elected a board member at the AGM 2007. From August 2006, Mia has been Chief Executive Officer of Investment AB Kinnevik ("Kinnevik"), a Swedish public company managing a portfolio of long-term investments in a number of public companies such as Millicom. Mia joined Kinnevik owned company Modern Times Group MTG AB in 1992, and was appointed CFO in 2001. As CFO, Mia played a central role in MTG's development. Currently, Mia is the Chairman of the Board of Metro International S.A. and a member of the Board of Tele2 AB, Transcom WorldWide S.A., Modern Times Group MTG AB and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB. Between 2006 and 2008 Mia was a member of the Board of CTC Media, Inc. - a Russian associated company of MTG.
Donna Cordner (born 1956)
Non-Executive Director Member of the CSR Committee
Donna Cordner was elected to the Board of Millicom in May 2004. She was formerly a Managing Director and Global Head of Telecommunications and Media Structured Finance group at Citigroup. She has also held senior management positions at Societe Generale and ABN Amro Bank N.V. in the U.S. and Europe, including as Director of ABN's Latin American Telecommunications Project Finance and Advisory Group. Ms Cordner was the CEO of HOFKAM Limited, the largest rural microfinance company in Uganda until July 2005 and she continues to advise HOFKAM as a consultant. She was named Executive Vice President of Corporate Finance and Treasury for Tele2AB in March 2007 and was named Market Area Director and CEO for Russia for Tele2AB in March 2008.
Kent Atkinson (born 1945)
Non-Executive Director Member of the Audit and Compensation Committees
Kent Atkinson was elected to the Board of Millicom in May 2007. Previously, Kent was employed by the Bank of London and South America (later acquired by Lloyds Bank) and held a number of senior managerial positions in Latin America and the Middle East before returning to the UK. He was Regional Executive Director for Lloyds TSB's South East Region until he joined the main board as Group Finance Director, a position he held for eight years until his retirement as an executive. He remained on the Lloyds TSB board for a further year as a non-Executive Director. Kent is the Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Coca-Cola HBC SA. He is a non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Group Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of Standard Life plc, and a member of Standard Life's Investment Committee. Kent is also a non-Executive Director of Gemalto NV, a member of its Audit Committee and its Strategy and M&A Committee, and he is also a non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Northern Rock plc and a member of Northern Rock's Risk Committee.
Michel Massart (born 1951)
Non-Executive Director Chairman of the Audit Committee and Member of the Nomination Committee
Michel Massart was appointed to the Board of Millicom in May 2003. Until June 2002, he was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Belgium, where he set up the corporate finance department in 1997. He was a former member of the Board of the Institute of Statutory Auditors. He is currently a professor at Solvay Business School in Brussels, Belgium.
Marten Pieters (born 1953)
Non-Executive Director* Member of the Audit and Nomination Committees until February 2009
Marten Pieters was elected to the Board of Millicom in May 2008. He was CEO of MSI, which became Celtel, from 2003 through its acquisition by MTC in early 2007. During this time, he was a driving force in Celtel's development as one of the leading pan-African telecommunications operators, serving some 20 million customers in 14 countries. Previously, from 1989 to 2003, Mr Pieters worked at KPN, where, from 2000, he was a member of the executive management board of KPN Telecom with specific responsibility for KPN's Business Solutions Division. Prior to this he was EVP, KPN International Operations, covering Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. Before this he was Managing Director of one Telecoms district, having joined KPN as Secretary to the Board of Management. Before starting his career in telecommunications, Mr Pieters worked for 11 years at Royal Smilde Foods as Director of Finance and Strategic Planning and eventually as CEO in the Netherlands.
*Mr. Marten Pieters resigned from the Board of Millicom on February 6, 2009.
Allen Sangines-Krause (born 1959)
Non-Executive Director Member of the Nomination Committee since February 2009
Allen Sangines-Krause was elected to the Board of Millicom in May 2008. He worked for Goldman Sachs between 1993 and 2007, working in a variety of senior positions from COO for Latin America based in Mexico City and New York and most recently as Managing Director out of London. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr Sangines-Krause was with Casa de Bolsa Inverlat, in Mexico, and before that he was a Founding Partner of Fidem, S.C., a Mexican investment bank, which was acquired by Casa de Bolsa Inverlat in 1991. Mr Sangines-Krause currently sits on the Board of Investment AB Kinnevik and is Chairman of Rasaland, a real estate investment fund. He is a member of the Council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University.
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