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## Board of Directors 

at December 31, 2011 

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## From left to right 

Jacques Vincent, Felix Weber, Pierre Landolt, Peggy Bruzelius, Michael Mack, Martin Taylor, Jürg Witmer, Rolf Watter, Stefan Borgas, Peter Thompson and David Lawrence at Syngenta’s Crop Demonstration Days presentation for employees in Basel in October 2011. 

## Martin Taylor 

Chairman of the Board, non-executive Director. Chairman of the Chairman’s Committee and the Corporate Responsibility Committee, and member of the Compensation Committee. He is also Chairman of the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture 

Age: 59. Nationality: British. Appointed 2000. Term of office: 2013. 

Martin Taylor is currently Vice Chairman of RTL Group SA. Previously he was an Advisor to Goldman Sachs International (1999–2005), Chairman of WHSmith plc (1999–2003), and Chief Executive Officer of Barclays plc (1993–1998) and Courtaulds Textiles (1990–1993). He recently served as a member of the British Government’s Independent Banking Commission. Martin Taylor has a degree in oriental languages from Oxford University. 

## Michael Mack 

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), executive Director. Member of the Chairman’s Committee and the Corporate Responsibility Committee 

Age: 51. Nationality: American. Appointed 2008. Term of office: 2013. 

Michael Mack was Chief Operating Officer of Seeds (2004–2007) and Head of Crop Protection, NAFTA Region (2002–2004) for Syngenta. Prior to this, he was President of the Global Paper Division of Imerys SA, a French mining and pigments concern, from the time of its merger in 1999 with English China Clays Ltd., where he was Executive Vice President, Americas and Pacific Region, in addition to being an Executive Director of the Board. From 1987 to 1996 he held various roles with Mead Corporation. Michael Mack is also Chairman of the Board of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. 

Michael Mack has a degree in economics from Kalamazoo College in Michigan, studied at the University of Strasbourg, and has an MBA from Harvard University. 

## Jürg Witmer 

Vice Chairman, non-executive Director. Member of the Chairman’s Committee and of the Compensation Committee 

Age: 63. Nationality: Swiss. Appointed 2006. Term of office: 2012. 

Jürg Witmer is currently Chairman of Givaudan SA and Clariant AG. He joined Roche (1978) in the legal department and subsequently held a number of positions including Assistant to the CEO, General Manager of Roche Far East based in Hong Kong, Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Roche headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and General Manager of Roche Austria. Thereafter he became Chief Executive Officer of Givaudan Roure (1999) and then Chairman of the Board of Directors of Givaudan (2005). 

Jürg Witmer has a doctorate in law from the University of Zurich, as well as a degree in international studies from the University of Geneva. 

## Stefan Borgas 

Non-executive Director. Member of the Audit Committee 

Age: 47. Nationality: German. Appointed 2009. Term of office: 2012. 

Stefan Borgas was Chief Executive Officer of Lonza Group from June 2004 to January 2012. Prior to joining Lonza, he spent 14 years with BASF Group where he held various leadership positions in Fine Chemicals and Engineering Plastics in the USA, Germany, Ireland and China. Stefan Borgas is a member of the Board of scienceindustries, the association of Swiss chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. He is also president of the Swiss Management Gesellschaft (SMG). 

Stefan Borgas holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Saarbrücken and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen. 

