Non-Executive Member of the board of Tata Motors Ltd.

Carl-Peter Forster, Tata Motors Group chief executive officer from February 2010 until September 2011, now Non-Executive Member of the Board of Tata Motors Ltd. Before Mr. Forster was GM Vice President and President of GM Europe, based in Zurich, Switzerland, from 2004 to 2009. Effective January 1, 2006, he was appointed GM Group Vice President and a member of the GM Automotive Strategy Board and took over the role as the senior-ranking executive for GM’s activities in Europe.  He has been Chairman of the Opel Supervisory Board since June, 2004 and Chairman of Saab since April, 2005.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Fettweis studied electrical engineering at the Aachen University of Technololgy (RWTH) in Germany where he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1990. From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, developing signal processing innovations for IBM’s disk drive products. From 1991 to 1994, he was a Scientist with TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor development projects for mobile phone chip-sets. Since September 1994 he holds the Vodafone Chair at the Technische Universität in Dresden, Germany. In addition he cofounded Systemonic as CTO in 1999, which was successfully acquired by Philips Semiconductor (today: NXP) in December 2002. Now he is Chief Scientist of Philips Semiconductors BL-C. In 2000, a second start-up was spun-out of the Vodafone Chair: Radioplan delivers products and professional services related to 2.5G, 3G and 4G network development, planning and optimization. In 2003 a third startup was spun out: Signalion provides leading edge consulting, engineering & prototype development for signal processing and communications systems. The forth startup, InCircuit (2004) delivers custom electronic circuit solutions for signal processing products. The fifth startup, Dresden Silicon (2005), delivers media codec circuits and solutions for mobile devices. Gerhard Fettweis’ research at the Vodafone Chair focuses on new wireless communications systems for cellular and short range networks, and their hardware/software implementation.

Michael Fraedrich, born January 30th, 1953 in Heilbronn, has been member of the management board of WGZ BANK since August 2000. His main focus is on the following areas:

• back-office credit (incl. risk management)
• back-office trade
• legal services
• private equity
• compliance, money-laundering prevention, data protection

Michael Fraedrich got his first state law examination in law at the Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen. After his second state law examination for Law in 1980 he started to work for the Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (West LB), Düsseldorf, with focus on legal services, participations, leasing and special finance. From 1988 to 1992 he managed the legal services and participation division at WGZ-Bank eG, Düsseldorf. After that he joined the IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, Düsseldorf and Berlin as head of the office of the managing board and legal services, later on central customer service and after that has become responsible for risk management and legal services.

In addition to his activities with ZMD Michael Fraedrich is also member of the supervisory board of Union Investment Real Estate AG, Hamburg; of VBI Volksbank International AG, Vienna; of VR-LEASING AG, Eschborn as well as member of the Executive Committee of CIBP Confédération Internationale des Banques Populaires, Brussels.