KPN Appoints Two New Members To Management Board

AMSTERDAM -(Dow Jones)- Royal KPN said Monday it intends to appoint Eelco Blok, currently Chief Operating Officer of division Fixed, and Stan Miller, responsible for KPN's international mobile activities, as members of the Board of Management of KPN by 1 July 2006.

Blok has worked for KPN since 1983, during which time he has held various operational management functions. Blok previously held a seat in the Board of Management between April 2004 and December 2004, when he decided to step down in relation to an investigation of inappropriate discounts in the business market. He will be responsible for the Fixed division within the Board of Management.

Stan Miller has been with KPN since 1998, when he was appointed as CEO of KPN Orange, the predecessor of BASE, the third mobile operator in Belgium. He has also been managing director of KPN Mobile the Netherlands. In May 2005 he was appointed as CEO of E-Plus and BASE. In the Board of Management, Miller, a South African national, will be responsible for KPN's international mobile activities.

Pending the outcome of a study into the integration of the Fixed and Mobile divisions, KPN CEO Ad Scheepbouwer will assume responsibility for KPN Mobile the Netherlands from Guy Demuynck who will leave the Board of Management on 1 July 2006.

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Posted to the site on 13th March 2006