Based upon the nominations of the main shareholders DaimlerChrysler and SOGEADE (Lagardère and French State), the Board of Directors of EADS has decided to propose to the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for May 11, 2005 in Amsterdam to appoint to the Board:
Manfred Bischoff and Arnaud Lagardère (to be designated as Chairmen), Thomas Enders and Noël Forgeard (to be designated as Chief Executive Officers), Jean-Paul Gut and Hans Peter Ring as Executive Directors, Juan Manuel Eguiagaray, Louis Gallois and Rüdiger Grube as Non-Executive Directors and Francois David and Michael Rogowski as Independent Directors.
EADS Board Members are elected for a term of five years.
EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2003, EADS generated revenues of € 30.1 billion and employed a workforce of about 109,000. The EADS Group includes the aircraft manufacturer Airbus, the world's largest helicopter supplier Eurocopter and the joint venture MBDA, the leading international missile producer. EADS is the major partner in the Eurofighter consortium, is the prime contractor for the Ariane launcher, develops the A400M military transport aircraft and is the largest industrial partner for the European satellite navigation system Galileo.
