Joep L. Brentjens

OBAM NV is an open-ended investment fund that invests in listed shares. The funds' portfolio of companies are selected on the basis of stable earnings growth and good long-term prospects, and includes ING, Wells Fargo, Freeport-Mcmoran, Alpha Natural Resources Inc., ABB, Vale Do Rio Doce, Apache Corp., JPMorgan Chase, Hess Corp., General Electric, Rio Tinto, Schlumberger, Dow Chemical, Wilmar International, Standard Chartered, Yum Brands, and Bayer AG. The company was founded on November 20, 1936 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Océ NV is a provider of document management and printing solutions for professionals. The company offers office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Océ also provides document management outsourcing services. The company was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Venlo, the Netherlands.

VNU NV provides publishing and information services. It is a market research company and measures retail sales of consumer-packaged goods, and study consumer attitudes and behavior and also measure audiences for television, motion pictures, radio, print, the Internet, and other major media. The company tracks the sale of CDs, videos, DVDs and books, and monitor where and how advertising money is spent. It delivers news and vital information through trade publications, trade shows and websites. VNU’s headquarters are located in Haarlem, The Netherlands.

Van Leer Group Foundation (the Foundation) is a private charitable foundation that focuses specifically on children. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, the Foundation traces their origins to 1949 with the organization of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 1971, the Foundation was legally established in The Hague as a charitable organization recognized by Dutch law. The foundation also acts as a holding function in relation to all the charitable activities of the Van Leer Entity.