G.H. Dutiné

Dr. Gottfried Dutiné joined Royal Philips Electronics as of February 1, 2002, was appointed a member of the Board of Management as per March 28, 2002 and became president and CEO of Consumer Electronics as of January 1, 2003.

Former Vice President of the Telecom Board Committee of Alcatel, and Area President of Alcatel for Central & Eastern Europe and Russia, Mr. Dutiné holds a Diploma in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in communications technology from the University of Darmstadt, Germany.

He began his industrial career at Rockwell-Collins GmbH in Frankfurt, where he was appointed Director of Engineering. In 1984 he joined Motorola GmbH in Taunusstein, and in 1989 he went to Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart where he held several positions before he left for Alcatel in Paris at the end of 1997.

Dr. Dutiné actively participates in several initiatives and boards, which promote the development of the information society. Among others he was co-founder and vice chairman of the Initiative D21, a German public/private partnership targeted at accelerating the transformation of Germany to an internet society, and is executive board member of BITKOM, Europe's largest association of the IT-, telecom-, service provider-, and media-industry.

The Technical University of Darmstadt honoured Dr. Dutiné for his activities in 2000, when he was appointed a Senator (h.c.)