Orla Noonan has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Adevinta since 2018. She began her career in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in London, where she worked from 1994 to 1996. She then spent more than two decades working in content and media at Groupe AB in Paris, holding various management positions including Vice President and Company Secretary responsible for finance, M&A and regulatory affairs. She was CEO of Groupe AB from 2014 to 2018 and an independent Board member at Schibsted Media Group from 2017 to 2019.
Orla Noonan was an independent Board member at Iliad for 12 years, between 2009 and 2021, as well as at Schibsted Media Group from 2017 to 2019. She has been an independent Board member at SMCP since 2017, at Agence France Presse (AFP) since 2019, Believe since 2021 and TF1 since 2022. She is a graduate of HEC Paris and has a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin.
Shares held in Adevinta: 20,030
Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández has held various leadership positions in industrial and financial companies. He was Chairman and CEO of Indra (2015 to 2021), CEO of Grupo Prisa (2011 to 2014), CEO of Credit Suisse in Spain and Portugal (2005 to 2011), and CFO and later CEO of Grupo Telefonica (1996 to 2003). His earlier experience includes 10 years in different positions at JP Morgan.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Energía y Celulosa, S.A. since 2007. Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández graduated in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (Madrid).
Shares held in Adevinta: 23,000
Sophie Javary has over 30 years of experience in investment banking, both within M&A and ECM. She is currently Vice-Chairman CIB EMEA with BNP Paribas. Her experience includes roles as Head of Corporate Finance Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) at BNP Paribas (2014 to 2018), Senior Banker at BNP Paribas (2011 to 2013) and 16 years at Rothschild & Co (1994 to 2011), where she was appointed as General Partner in 2002. She was Director, Head of ECM Origination in France, at Baring Brothers France, from 1993 to 1994, and held various positions at Banque Indosuez in Paris (1989 to 1992) and at Bank of America (1981 to 1986). She is a Board member of the Elior Group and of the think tank EuropaNova, and she has been decorated with the French Légion d’honneur.
Sophie Javary is a graduate from HEC Paris with a certificate from the international management programme following six months at the Fundação Getulio Vargas of São Paulo (Brazil) and six months at New York University (USA) Graduate School Of Business Administration.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Peter Brooks-Johnson has been CEO of Rightmove, the UK’s largest property portal, since 2017. He began his career at Accenture UK Ltd, where he worked from 1995 to 2000, and then spent five years at Berkeley Partnership LLP from 2000 to 2005 as a consultant.
He joined Rightmove in 2006 and held the position of Head of the Agency business from 2008 to 2011, Managing Director from 2011 to 2013 and COO from 2013 to 2017. Peter Brooks-Johnson graduated with a MEng in Microelectronics from Newcastle University.
Shares held in Adevinta: 1,938
Michael Nilles has been Chief Digital & Information Officer of Henkel KGaA since 2019. He has more than 20 years of experience spearheading digital innovation and large-scale transformations for multi-billion-dollar global companies and has extensive knowledge of building asset-light digital operating models and platform businesses. Before joining Henkel, he was a member of the Group Executive Board and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for Schindler, as well as the CEO of Schindler Digital Business AG. Prior to Schindler, Michael held various international leadership positions at Mannesmann and Bosch Rexroth in China, the US and Europe. He began his career as a software engineer and consultant at SAP. Michael has also served on private and public supervisory boards such as FogHorn Systems Inc. and Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Cologne and is an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.
Shares held in Adevinta: 30,000, as of the date of this document
Julia Jäkel is an executive with over 20 years experience in media and publishing. She has held various leadership positions in Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA, and has served as a member of Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee since 2013. From 2012 to 2021, Julia was CEO of Gruner + Jahr, one of Europe’s leading media and publishing companies. In addition, she was Chairwoman of the Bertelsmann Content Alliance (2019 to 2021), which coordinates the Bertelsmann content activities in Germany (Mediengruppe RTL, UFA, Penguin Random House, Gruner + Jahr and the music company BMG).
She also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation (Bundesliga) and of the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Kristin Skogen Lund has been CEO of Schibsted ASA since 1 December 2018. Her previous positions include Director General of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) from 2012 to 2018, EVP of the Nordic region and digital services at Telenor, CEO at the Schibsted companies Aftenposten, Scanpix and Scandinavia Online, several roles at the Coca-Cola Company, serving as Director from 1997 to 1998, as well as Unilever and the Norwegian Embassy in Madrid.
Kristin Skogen Lund has previously served as president of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and as a member of the Board of Ericsson and Orkla among others. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work. Kristin Skogen Lund is President of the European Tech Alliance and also Chair of the Board at Oslo-Filharmonien. She has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in International Studies and Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Aleksander Rosinski has held the position of Vice President & Senior Advisor to Schibsted Management since September 2019. He has more than 20 years experience in online marketplaces management, including in his roles as Vice President at Telenor ASA where he oversaw online classifieds investments in Asia and South America, Vice President of Vacation Rentals at TripAdvisor, and Managing Director of Travel and General Goods at FINN.no.
Aleksander has also served on the Board of Directors of several companies including Inkclub AB, Blocket.se and OLX Brasil. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Business from the Gothenburg School of Economics.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Marie Oh Huber has served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of eBay since July 2015. In her current role, she leads the global legal, government relations and public policy functions for eBay. Prior to joining eBay, Marie spent 15 years at Agilent Technologies, a technology and life sciences company, most recently as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to Agilent, she spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard Company in various positions. She started her career at large law firms in New York and San Francisco.
Marie Oh Huber also serves as a board member of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE) and recently served on the board of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Marie has a BA in Economics from Yale, studied at the London School of Economics and received her JD from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Mark Solomons has served as Vice President, Corporate and Business Development at eBay since February 2016. In this role, he oversees eBay’s acquisitions, investments, acquisition integration, and various business development activities. Prior to joining eBay, Mark spent 19 years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan. Mark’s most recent role at Morgan Stanley was Head of West Coast Technology M&A, based in Menlo Park, California. Prior to his investment banking career, Mr. Solomons worked for Deloitte in various positions for three years.
Mark has a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and was admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He also served in the Australian Army Reserve.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Dipan Patel is Head of Consumer at Permira, a global investment firm that backs growth at scale. He serves on both the Permira Investment Committee and Executive Committee.
He serves on the boards of Axiom, Boats Group, Catawiki, LegalZoom and The Knot Worldwide. Prior to joining Permira, Dipan worked for Gores Group, a special situations private equity fund and earlier at Lehman Brothers. Dipan holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, England.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Orla Noonan has been Chair of the Board of Directors of Adevinta since 2018. She began her career in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in London, where she worked from 1994 to 1996. She then spent more than two decades working in content and media at Groupe AB in Paris, holding various management positions including Vice President and Company Secretary responsible for finance, M&A and regulatory affairs. She was CEO of Groupe AB from 2014 to 2018 and an independent Board member at Schibsted Media Group from 2017 to 2019.
Orla Noonan was an independent Board member at Iliad for 12 years, between 2009 and 2021, as well as at Schibsted Media Group from 2017 to 2019. She has been an independent Board member at SMCP since 2017, at Agence France Presse (AFP) since 2019, Believe since 2021 and TF1 since 2022. She is a graduate of HEC Paris and has a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin.
Shares held in Adevinta: 20,030
Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández has held various leadership positions in industrial
and financial companies. He was Chairman and CEO of Indra (2015 to 2021),
CEO of Grupo Prisa (2011 to 2014), CEO of Credit Suisse in Spain and Portugal (2005 to 2011), and CFO and later CEO of Grupo Telefonica (1996 to 2003).
His earlier experience includes 10 years in different positions at JP Morgan. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Energía y Celulosa, S.A. since 2007. Fernando Abril-Martorell Hernández graduated in Law and Business Administration from ICADE (Madrid).
Shares held in Adevinta: 23,000
Sophie Javary has over 30 years of experience in investment banking, both within M&A and ECM. She is currently Vice-Chairman CIB EMEA with BNP Paribas. Her experience includes roles as Head of Corporate Finance Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA) at BNP Paribas (2014 to 2018), Senior Banker at BNP Paribas (2011 to 2013) and 16 years at Rothschild & Co (1994 to 2011), where she was appointed as General Partner in 2002. She was Director, Head of ECM Origination in France, at Baring Brothers France, from 1993 to 1994, and held various positions at Banque Indosuez in Paris (1989 to 1992) and at Bank of America (1981 to 1986). She is a Board member of the Elior Group and of the think tank EuropaNova, and she has been decorated with the French Légion d’honneur.
Sophie Javary is a graduate from HEC Paris with a certificate from the international management programme following six months at the Fundação Getulio Vargas of São Paulo (Brazil) and six months at New York University (USA) Graduate School Of Business Administration.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Peter Brooks-Johnson has been CEO of Rightmove, the UK’s largest property portal, since 2017. He began his career at Accenture UK Ltd, where he worked from 1995 to 2000, and then spent five years at Berkeley Partnership LLP from 2000 to 2005 as a consultant.
He joined Rightmove in 2006 and held the position of Head of the Agency business from 2008 to 2011, Managing Director from 2011 to 2013 and COO from 2013 to 2017. Peter Brooks-Johnson graduated with a MEng in Microelectronics from Newcastle University.
Shares held in Adevinta: 1,938
Michael Nilles has been Chief Digital & Information Officer of Henkel KGaA since 2019. He has more than 20 years of experience spearheading digital innovation and large-scale transformations for multi-billion-dollar global companies and has extensive knowledge of building asset-light digital operating models and platform businesses. Before joining Henkel, he was a member of the Group Executive Board and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for Schindler, as well as the CEO of Schindler Digital Business AG. Prior to Schindler, Michael held various international leadership positions at Mannesmann and Bosch Rexroth in China, the US and Europe. He began his career as a software engineer and consultant at SAP. Michael has also served on private and public supervisory boards such as FogHorn Systems Inc. and Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Cologne and is an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA.
Shares held in Adevinta: 30,000, as of the date of this document
Julia Jäkel is an executive with over 20 years experience in media and publishing. She has held various leadership positions in Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA, and has served as a member of Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee since 2013. From 2012 to 2021, Julia was CEO of Gruner + Jahr, one of Europe’s leading media and publishing companies. In addition, she was Chairwoman of the Bertelsmann Content Alliance (2019 to 2021), which coordinates the Bertelsmann content activities in Germany (Mediengruppe RTL, UFA, Penguin Random House, Gruner + Jahr and the music company BMG).
She also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, a member of the Board of Trustees of the DFL Foundation (Bundesliga) and of the Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Kristin Skogen Lund has been CEO of Schibsted ASA since 1 December 2018. Her previous positions include Director General of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) from 2012 to 2018, EVP of the Nordic region and digital services at Telenor, CEO at the Schibsted companies Aftenposten, Scanpix and Scandinavia Online, several roles at the Coca-Cola Company, serving as Director from 1997 to 1998, as well as Unilever and the Norwegian Embassy in Madrid.
Kristin Skogen Lund has previously served as president of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and as a member of the Board of Ericsson and Orkla among others. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, and the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work. Kristin Skogen Lund is President of the European Tech Alliance and also Chair of the Board at Oslo-Filharmonien. She has an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in International Studies and Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Aleksander Rosinski has held the position of Vice President & Senior Advisor to Schibsted Management since September 2019. He has more than 20 years experience in online marketplaces management, including in his roles as Vice President at Telenor ASA where he oversaw online classifieds investments in Asia and South America, Vice President of Vacation Rentals at TripAdvisor, and Managing Director of Travel and General Goods at FINN.no.
Aleksander has also served on the Board of Directors of several companies including Inkclub AB, Blocket.se and OLX Brasil. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Business from the Gothenburg School of Economics.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Marie Oh Huber has served as Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of eBay since July 2015. In her current role, she leads the global legal, government relations and public policy functions for eBay. Prior to joining eBay, Marie spent 15 years at Agilent Technologies, a technology and life sciences company, most recently as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to Agilent, she spent 10 years at Hewlett-Packard Company in various positions. She started her career at large law firms in New York and San Francisco.
Marie Oh Huber also serves as a board member of Portland General Electric Company (NYSE) and recently served on the board of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Marie has a BA in Economics from Yale, studied at the London School of Economics and received her JD from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Mark Solomons is Vice President of Strategic Investments Portfolio at eBay.
Before taking on this role in 2022, he served for six years as eBay's VP of Corporate and Business Development, overseeing M&A, investments, M&A integration and various business development activities.
Prior to joining eBay, Mark spent 19 years as an Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan. Mark’s most recent role at Morgan Stanley was Head of West Coast Technology M&A, based in Menlo Park, California. Prior to his Investment Banking career, Mr. Solomons worked for Deloitte in various positions for three years. Mark has a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and was admitted as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. He also served in the Australian Army Reserve.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
Dipan Patel is Head of Consumer at Permira, a global investment firm that backs growth at scale. He serves on both the Permira Investment Committee and Executive Committee.
He serves on the boards of Axiom, Boats Group, Catawiki, LegalZoom and The Knot Worldwide. Prior to joining Permira, Dipan worked for Gores Group, a special situations private equity fund and earlier at Lehman Brothers. Dipan holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, England.
Shares held in Adevinta: 0
