Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for the policies and management of Barry Callebaut. The Board establishes the strategic, accounting, organizational and financing policies to be followed, and appoints the Senior Management Team, to which the Board of Directors has delegated the operational management of Barry Callebaut. Besides its non-transferable and inalienable duties the Board has retained certain competencies as set forth in the Company’s Internal Regulations, which are publicly accessible via the Barry Callebaut website.

As of August 31, 2007, the Board of Directors consisted of six nonexecutive members.

Each Director is elected by the shareholders of Barry Callebaut AG at the General Meeting for a term of office of one year and may be re-elected to successive terms.

Name	Nationality	Function	Member since
Andreas Jacobs	German	Chairman	2003
Andreas Schmid	Swiss	Vice Chairman	1997
Rolando Benedick	Swiss	Director	2001
Markus Fiechter	Swiss	Director	2004
Stefan Pfander	German	Director	2005
Urs Widmer	Swiss	Director	2004