Vodafone AirTouch Plc today announced that Professor Sir Alec Broers has been appointed as a non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Professor Sir Alec had previously been a member of the Vodafone Group Plc Board, and had stood down following the merger between Vodafone and AirTouch Communications, Inc which was completed on 30 June 1999. Since that time he has held the position of Director Emeritus of Vodafone AirTouch Plc, an advisory position without formal Director status.

Aged 60, Professor Sir Alec is the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. He spent many years with IBM and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Physics and is a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

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