KLM’s management is in the hands of its Executive Committee (Excom). This consists of the statutory managing directors and eight executive vice presidents of KLM’s business units. They are responsible for Operations, Cargo, Commercial, Engineering & Maintenance, Inflight Services, Ground Services, Information Services and Human Resources & Industrial Relations. The statutory managing directors are President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Hartman, Chief Financial Officer Frédéric Gagey and Managing Director Jan Ernst de Groot. Together they comprise the Managing Board and as such bear responsibility for KLM.

KLM has an independent Supervisory Board which is responsible for supervising the company and it’s Managing Board. On 31 March, 2009, the Supervisory Board consisted of K.J. Storm (chair), J.F.H. Martre (vice-chair), I.P. Asscher-Vonk, J.D.F.C. Blanchet, H. Guillaume, W. Kok, R. Laan, J. Peyrelevade, and H.N.J. Smits.

KLM is a Dutch company and is part of AIR FRANCE KLM S.A., as is Air France. The management of AIR FRANCE KLM lies in the hands of the Group Executive Committee (GEC), which focuses on such group related subjects as strategy, finance, commerce, technology, IT, procurement, and fleet development. The GEC has eleven members and sets and monitors AIR FRANCE KLM’s strategic course. The GEC is headed by AIR FRANCE KLM Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, in cooperation with KLM President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Hartman.

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