TomTom has appointed Andrew Browne as chairman of the Supervisory Board
He will replace Benno Hoogendoorn who resigned last year as chairman of the Supervisory Board of TomTom N.V. for health reasons. Andrew Browne (1955) is an Irish national. He was first appointed to the Supervisory Board on 13 May 2005, and his current term runs until 2009.
Mr. Browne earned a Masters in Business Administration from Trinity College in Dublin. He is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in the Republic of Ireland. From 1985 to 1995 he worked for Advanced Micro Devices in California and in various locations in Asia, leading AMD’s financial sales and marketing operations in Asia and eventually worldwide.
In 1995, Andrew was appointed Chief Financial Officer and Deputy CEO of Intelsat, the International Telecommunications Satellite organisation. Since 1998, Andrew has served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director of New Skies Satellites BV. He also is a member of the Board of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
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