FORM
6-K
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Report
of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of
the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For
October 11, 2007
Commission
File Number: 001-14624
ABN
AMRO
HOLDING N.V.
(Translation
of registrant’s name into English)
Gustav
Mahlerlaan 10
1082
PP
Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
(Address
of principal executive offices)
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11th
October
2007
Joint
Message from ABN AMRO, Fortis, RBS and Santander
Supervisory
and Managing Board Nominations and Responsibilities
ABN
AMRO, Fortis,
RBS and Santander announce today the nominations for the new structure and
membership of the Supervisory and Managing Boards of ABN AMRO, together with
their proposed responsibilities. These are subject to the completion of the
appropriate approval process including an Extraordinary General Meeting of
shareholders called for by ABN AMRO at the earliest practical date as well
as
consultation with all relevant staff representative bodies.
The
Supervisory
Board will continue to be chaired by Mr Arthur Martinez. Nominated to join
the
Supervisory Board are Mr Jean-Paul Votron, Chief Executive of Fortis, Sir Fred
Goodwin, Chief Executive of RBS, and Mr Juan Inciarte, General Manager of
Santander. Mr David Baron de Rothschild, Mr Marcus Pratini de Moraes, Mr Paulo
Scaroni, Lord Sharman of Redlynch and Mr Gerhard Randa will be stepping down
at
the forthcoming EGM.
For
the Managing
Board our intention is to increase both its resources and capabilities while
providing increased leadership focus for Business Units and functions. The
structure details (attached) show how existing responsibilities will map onto
the proposed structure. In the period ahead we will be working on the allocation
of further responsibilities to the leadership team as appropriate.
As
announced by ABN
AMRO yesterday Mr Rijkman Groenink is stepping down from his position as
Chairman of the Managing Board. The other existing members of the Managing
Board
will retain positions with revised responsibilities.
Mr
Groenink’s
nominated replacement as Chairman is Mr Mark Fisher, currently Chief Executive
of the Manufacturing Division and a member of the RBS Group Board and Group
Executive Management Committee.
This
is an
announcement pursuant to article 9b paragraph 1 of the Dutch Securities Markets
Supervision Decree (Besluit toezicht effectenverkeer 1995). This document shall
not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any
securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities, in any jurisdiction
in
which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration
or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
Attached:
Proposed
Managing Board Structure, responsibilities and biographies.
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Proposed
Managing Board Structure
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Nominated
Supervisory Board Structure and Biographies
Sir
Fred
Goodwin
Chief
Executive of
RBS Group, appointed to the board in August 1998. He is a non-executive director
of Bank of China Limited and Chairman of The Prince’s Trust., Formerly Chief
Executive and director, Clydesdale Bank PLC and Yorkshire Bank PLC.
Jean-Paul
Votron
Chief
Executive of
Fortis since 2004. Between 1991 and 1997 he served in different positions with
Citibank in Europe and the US. ABN AMRO Senior Executive Vice-President
International Consumer Banking and E-Commerce from 1997 until 2001, he rejoined
Citigroup, where he was appointed a member of the Management Committee of
Citigroup in 2002.
Mr
Juan
Inciarte
CEO
of Santander
Consumer and General Manager of Santander Group. Joined the Santander Group
in
1985. Appointed to the Board in 1991 until 1999. Holds seat on the Boards of
several Spanish and international companies.
Existing
Supervisory Board Structure and Biographies
Arthur
Martinez(Chairman)
Appointed
Chairman
of the ABN AMRO Supervisory Board in 2006 after joining the Supervisory Board
in
2002. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc and a
former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank in
Chicago. He has also served as Chairman and Chief Executive of Sears Merchandise
Group, after a career at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, starting in 1980 as Senior
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1990 he became Vice Chairman
and
member of the Board of Directors of Saks Fifth Avenue.
André
Olijslager(Vice Chairman)
André
Olijslager
was
appointed to the ABN AMRO Supervisory Board in 2004 and became Vice Chairman
in
April 2006. He has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Royal Friesland
Foods and his career also includes senior positions at Van Gelder Papier and
Alpinvest.
Trude
Maas
Appointed
to the
Supervisory Board in 2000. She was previously President of the Hay Vision
Society in 2001, a think tank for trends in the field of Human Resources. Mrs
Maas also worked as business developer at Hay Management Consultants and at
Origin Netherlands, where she served on the Managing Board.
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Rob
van den
Bergh
Appointed
to the ABN
AMRO Supervisory Board in 2005. Mr van den Bergh joined VNU in 1980 and held
important management positions within several business groups and in 2000 was
named Chairman of the Executive Board. He retired as Chairman of the Executive
Board and CEO in November 2005.
Anthony
Ruys
Appointed
to the ABN
AMRO Supervisory Board in 2005. From 1974 to 1993, Mr Ruys worked at Unilever
where he held various marketing and general management positions. He then joined
Heineken as a member of the Executive Board in 1993, became Vice Chairman in
1996 and in 2002 was named Chairman of the Executive Board. He retired as
Chairman in 2005
Gert-Jan
Kramer
Appointed
to the ABN
AMRO Supervisory Board in 2006. Previously President and Chief Executive Officer
of Fugro N.V. and Director at Broekhoven Baggermaatschappij Zeist. Also worked
as a project manager at Koninklijke Adriaan Volker Groep with the Royal Dutch
Navy and as Design Engineer at the Department of Maritime Construction of the
Dutch Government.
Ana
María
Llopis Rivas
Appointed
to the
Supervisory Board in 2007. Dr Llopis was the founder and CEO of Open Bank
(1993—2000), the branchless internet bank of the Santander Group. She also
worked for, Banesto (1988—1991), where she was Associate General Manager of
Branch Network, Marketing and Quality for Retail Banking.
Nominated
Managing Board Structure and Biographies
Mark
Fisher
(Chairman)
A
Director of Royal
Bank of Scotland Group Board since March 2006. He moved to RBS following its
acquisition of NatWest in 2000. He is currently Chief Executive of the
Manufacturing division which manages a diverse range of services supporting
the
Group’s activities including IT, Property, Purchasing and back-office services
functions. Joined NatWest in 1981 and has a first class honours degree in
Mathematics and an MBA from Warwick Business School.
Karel
De
Boeck (Vice-Chair, HR, Group Communications and Group Public
Affairs)
Member
of the
Executive Committee of Fortis, as Chief Risk Officer.
Wilco
Jiskoot (Vice-Chair, Private Equity)
Currently
the ABN
AMRO Managing Board member responsible for: Business Unit (BU) Netherlands;
BU
Global Clients; BU Private Clients; BU Asset Management; and Private Equity
(ABN
AMRO Capital). Mr Jiskoot was appointed to the Managing Board in 1997.
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Joost
Kuiper
(BU North America)
Currently
Chairman
of the ABN AMRO Group Business Committee (GBC), and Managing Board member
responsible for Business Unit (BU) North America. He was appointed to the
Managing Board in May 1999.
Brian
Crowe
(BU Global Clients, BU Global Markets and BU Transaction Banking)
Currently the Chief Executive, Global Banking and Markets at RBS,
a
position he has held since 2005. He is also the Chairman of the Wholesale
Committee of the British Bankers Association, a Director of Coutts & Co and
the Chairman of RBS Greenwich Capital.
Piero
Overmars (BU Asia and BU Europe)
Currently
the ABN
AMRO Managing Board member responsible for: Business Unit (BU) Asia; BU Global
Markets; BU Europe; and Antonveneta. He is also Chairman of the Commercial
Client Segment. Appointed to the Managing Board in January 2006.
Paul
Dor (BU
Asset Management and BU Private Clients)
Currently
CEO of
Special Financial Services at Fortis. His long-standing career at Fortis, which
spans nearly 40 years, has involved senior positions in Commercial and Corporate
banking.
Jan
Peter
Schmittmann(BU Netherlands)
Currently
Chief
Executive Officer Business Unit Netherlands, previously responsible for the
business unit New Growth Markets.
Javier
Maldonado (BU Latin America)
Head
of the Wealth
Management Division and U.K. corporate banking at Abbey, Santander's U.K.
subsidiary.
Marta
Elorza
Trueba (Antonveneta)
Deputy
managing
director of internal auditing, Santander. Joined the Group in 1997, from Arthur
Andersen, where she was a partner.
Ron
Teerlink
(Services and Market Infrastructures)
Currently
responsible for: ABN AMRO’s Business Unit (BU) Latin America; BU Transaction
Banking; and Services, Market Infrastructure. Appointed to the Managing Board
in
January 2006.
Huibert
Boumeester (Chief Risk Officer and Group Risk Management)
Appointed
to the ABN
AMRO Managing Board in January 2006 and current responsibilities are: Chief
Financial Officer; Group Finance; Group Risk Management; Group Strategic
Decision Support; Investor Relations; Group Communications; and Group Public
Affairs.
John
Hourican (Chief Finance Officer)
Currently
Head of
Leveraged Finance for Europe and Asia Pacific within RBS’s Global Banking &
Markets division. He was previously Chief Operating Officer for GBM. A chartered
accountant who trained with Price Waterhouse, he has held a number of Finance
Director roles within RBS.
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The
information contained in this report is incorporated by reference into the
registration statements on Form S-8 with Registration Nos. 333-81400, 333-84044,
333-128621, 333-128619, 333-127660 and 333-74703, and the registration
statements on Form F-3 with Registration Nos. 333-137691 and
333-104778.
Cautionary
statement regarding forward-looking statements
This
announcement
contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are
statements
that are not historical facts, including statements about our beliefs
and
expectations. Any statement in this announcement that expresses or
implies our
intentions, beliefs, expectations or predictions (and the assumptions
underlying
them) is a forward-looking statement. These statements are based
on plans,
estimates and projections, as they are currently available to the
management of ABN AMRO Holding N.V. ("ABN AMRO"). Forward-looking
statements
therefore speak only as of the date they are made, and we take no
obligation to
update publicly any of them in light of new information or future
events.
Forward-looking
statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of
important
factors could therefore cause actual future results to differ materially
from
those expressed or implied in any forward looking statement. Such
factors
include, without limitation, the outcome of the offers for our business
by
Barclays PLC ("Barclays") and the consortium of Banco Santander Central
Hispano,
S.A., Fortis SA/NV and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc ("RBS"
and
collectively, the "Consortium"); the completion of our proposed disposition
of
LaSalle; the conditions in the financial markets in Europe, the United
States,
Brazil and elsewhere from which we derive a substantial portion of
our trading
revenues; potential defaults of borrowers or trading counterparties; the
implementation of our restructuring including the envisaged reduction
in
headcount; the reliability of our risk management policies, procedures
and
methods; the outcome of ongoing criminal investigations and other
regulatory
initiatives related to compliance matters in the United States and
the nature
and severity of any sanctions imposed; and other risks referenced
in our filings
with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). For more
information
on these and other factors, please refer to Part I: Item 3.D "Risk Factors"
in our Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC and to any subsequent
reports furnished or filed by us with the SEC. The forward-looking
statements
contained in this announcement are made as of the date hereof, and
the companies
assume no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements
contained
in this announcement.
Signatures
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant
has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto
duly authorized.
| ABN AMRO HOLDING N.V. | |||
| Date: October 11, 2007 | By: | /s/ Dies Donker | |
| Name: | Dies Donker | ||
| Title: |
Head
of Investor Relations
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| By: | /s/ Petri Hofste | ||
| Name: |
Petri
Hofste
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| Title: |
Group
Accounting Officer
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