Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee was born on 28 September 1946 and is a Dutch businessman and engineer.
12 Facts About Gerard Kleisterlee
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Gerard Kleisterlee is the chairman of Vodafone, and the former president and CEO of Philips.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was educated at a Jesuit-run Canisius College in Nijmegen, followed by the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he earned a degree in electronic engineering.
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Gerard Kleisterlee received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School in 1991.
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Gerard Kleisterlee attended the program for executive development at the Swiss business school International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was appointed Managing Director of Philips Display Components Worldwide in 1994.
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Gerard Kleisterlee became president of Philips Taiwan and Regional Manager for Philips Components in Asia-Pacific in 1996.
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Gerard Kleisterlee served on the Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers from 1998 to 2005.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was determined not only to transform Philips' image with consumers but turn it into a high-growth, high-tech company, something that more than 10 years of restructuring, under two predecessors, failed to do.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was succeeded by Frans van Houten as CEO of Philips in April 2011.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was awarded an Honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2005.
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Gerard Kleisterlee was named 2006 Europe Businessman of the Year by Fortune.