Board of Directors

Chairman

Thomas Leysen, 50, Chairman, Non-Executive Director

Thomas Leysen became Chairman of Umicore in November 2008 after having served as Chief Executive Officer of Umicore since 2000. Since October 2011 he is Chairman of the board of KBC Group, a banking and insurance group. He is also Chairman of Corelio, a Belgian media company, a member of the supervisory Board of Bank Metzler, Germany, and a member of the board of UCB.

Director since : 10 May 2000
Expiration of mandate : Ordinary General Meeting of 2012
Chairman since : 19 November 2008
Chairman of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee since: 19 November 2008

Executive Director

Marc Grynberg, 46, Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

Marc Grynberg was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Umicore in November 2008. He was head of the Group's Automotive Catalysts business unit from 2006 to 2008 and served as Umicore's CFO from 2000 until 2006. He joined Umicore in 1996 as Group Controller. Marc holds a Commercial Engineering degree from the University of Brussels (Ecole de Commerce Solvay) and, prior to joining Umicore, worked for DuPont de Nemours in Brussels and Geneva.

Director since: 19 November 2008
Expiry of mandate: Ordinary General Meeting of 2012
Chief Executive Officer since: 19 November 2008

Independent Non-Executive Directors

Isabelle Bouillot, 62

Isabelle Bouillot holds a diploma of the French “National School of Administration”. She has occupied different positions in French public administrations, among them economic advisor for the President of the Republic between 1989 and 1991 and Budget Director at the Ministry of Economy and Finance between 1991 and 1995. She joined the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 1995 and was in charge of financial and banking activities. Between 2000 and 2003, she was Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Bank of the Group CDC IXIS. She is presently President of China Equity Links and a member of the boards of Saint-Gobain and Dexia.

Director since: April 14, 2004
Expiration of mandate : Ordinary General Meeting of 2013
Member of the Audit Committee since: 13 April 2005
Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee since: 13 April 2005

Uwe-Ernst Bufe, 67

Uwe-Ernst Bufe was CEO of Degussa until May 2000. He is a member of the Board of Akzo Nobel N.V. (Netherlands).

Director since : May 26, 2004
Expiration of mandate : Ordinary General Meeting of 2014

Ines Kolmsee, 41

Mrs. Kolmsee, of German nationality, holds several degrees in engineering (TU Berlin, Germany and Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France) as well as an MBA degree (Business School INSEAD – France/Singapore). Since 2004 she has been CEO of SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Group, a specialty chemicals company with operations worldwide. She previously occupied different positions, including as CFO at Arques Industries AG.

Director since : April 26, 2011
Expiration of mandate : Ordinary General Meeting of 2014
Member of the Audit Committee since: 26 April 2011

Shohei Naito, 67

Shohei Naito started his career at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the Ministry he served as Director General for Consular Affairs & Migration and as Chief of Protocol. Mr Naito has filled several diplomatic functions overseas and he was appointed as ambassador in 1996. Since that date he has served as Japan’s ambassador to Cambodia, Denmark concurrently with Lithuania and Belgium. He left the diplomatic service at the end of 2006. He is now Senior Fellow at The Japan Institute of International Affairs.

Director since: 25 April 2007
Expiry of mandate: Ordinary General Meeting of 2013

Guy Paquot, 70

Guy Paquot joined the Bank Nagelmackers group in 1969 and became Chairman and managing director of Financière Lecocq (a Nagelmackers subsidiary) in 1986. In 1994 Financière Lecocq became known as Compagnie Mobilière et Foncière du Bois Sauvage. In 2003 he left his position as managing director and on 30 June 2010 he resigned as Chairman of the Board of Compagnie du Bois Sauvage where he still held a mandate of Board member until 30 June 2011. He is Chairman of Neuhaus and a member of the Boards of Recticel, Noel Group and Serendip as well as the Quartier des Arts foundation.

Director since: 13 April 2005
Expiration of mandate: Ordinary General Meeting of 2012
Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee: 13 April 2005

Non-Executive Director

Arnoud de Pret, 66

Arnoud de Pret was with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York from 1972 until 1978. From 1978 until 1981 he was group treasurer of Cockerill-Sambre, and until 1990 he was group finance manager and member of the Executive Committee of UCB. He was Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee of Umicore from 1991 until May 2000. He is a member of the Board of Sibelco, UCB, L’Intégrale and of the French company Lesaffre & Cie. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Euronext BV Amsterdam.

Director since : 10 May 2000
Expiration of mandate :Ordinary General Meeting of 2014
Member of the Audit Committee since: 1 January 2001
Chairman of the Audit Committee since: 26 April 2011

Jonathan Oppenheimer, 42

Jonathan Oppenheimer joined the De Beers Group in 1994 and became a Director of De Beers S.A. in 2006. He is also a member of its Executive Committee. He is also the chairman of De Beers Canada Inc. and of Element Six Abrasives Group of companies. In view of his chairmanship of Element Six (in which Umicore has a stake), he is considered to be a non-independent Director.

Director since : 5 September 2001
Expiration of mandate :Ordinary General Meeting of 2014

Klaus Wendel, 67

Klaus Wendel, after a career in financial management with General Electric (USA), Siemens, Cockerill Sambre and CBR, joined Société Générale de Belgique in 1988 as member of the Executive Committee, responsible for group control. Since 2000 he has been an independent consultant.

Director since : 28 December 1989
Expiration of mandate :Ordinary General Meeting of 2012