2. Attendance of Directors at Board meetings and Board Committee meetings
The number of Directors’ meetings held during the year and each Director’s attendance at those meetings is set out in the table below.
The Directors met 18 times during the year. Nine Board meetings were main meetings and nine meetings were held to consider specific business.
While the Board continuously considers strategy, in March 2009 it met with the executive and senior management over two days to consider
DXS’s strategic plans.
Board Meetings
Directors Main meeting
held
Main meetings
attended2
Specific meetings
held
Specific meetings
attended2
Christopher T Beare 9 9 9 8
Elizabeth A Alexander AM 9 9 9 9
Barry R Brownjohn 9 9 9 7
John C Conde AO1 2 2 – –
Stewart F Ewen OAM 9 8 9 9
Victor P Hoog Antink 9 9 9 9
Charles B Leitner III3 8 8 9 9
Brian E Scullin 9 9 9 9
Peter B St George1 2 2 – –
1 Appointed 29 April 2009.
2 Indicates where a Director attended either personally or an Alternate was in attendance.
3 Based in New York, USA and resigned 29 April 2009.
Special meetings are held at a time to enable the maximum number of Directors to attend and are generally held to consider specific items that
cannot be held over to the next scheduled main meeting.
During the year the Board reviewed its Board Committee structure and following the appointment of Messrs Conde and St George in April 2009
amended its Committee membership effective 1 May 2009.
The table below sets out the number of Board Committee meetings held during the year for the Committees in place at the end of the year and
each Directors’ attendance at those meetings.
Board Audit
Committee
Board Risk
Committee
Board Compliance
Committee
Board Nomination
and Remuneration
Committee
Board Finance
Committee
held attended held attended held attended held attended held attended
Christopher T Beare – – – – – – 9 9 4 4
Elizabeth A Alexander AM 7 7 4 4 3 3 – – 3 3
Barry R Brownjohn 7 6 4 4 – – – – 4 4
John C Conde AO1 – – – – 1 1 1 1 – –
Stewart F Ewen OAM – – – – – – 9 9 – –
Victor P Hoog Antink – – – – – – – – – –
Charles B Leitner III2 – – – – – – – – – –
Brian E Scullin 6 6 3 3 4 4 9 9 – –
Peter B St George1 1 1 1 1 – – – – 1 1
1 Appointed 29 April 2009.
2 Resigned 29 April 2009.
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