Horst John

Latest Projects: - DACH Separation Lead for sale of Spreads business, sold to KKR in 2018. - Global Finance Workstream Lead for sale of Tea business, sold to CVC Capital in 2022. - Factory sale, sold to Rixona in 2020. TSA 2021 - PMO for several local M&A transactions Tasks include: - Due Diligence - Business & Financial Carve-Out - Designing Future Business (‘To-Be’ organization) - Defining Route to Market - Buyer Engagement/Q&A - Separation approach & roadmap, TSA, recruitment

Strategic & operational business partnering support to Category Teams & Sales VP, CD Teams. - D-A-CH TO € 2,5 bln - Cluster consists of D, A, CH, head office Hamburg - Effective support to drive TO, profit and market share - Functional excellence: Performance reporting & analysis, P+L, FC and planning, business cases, high value projects, M&A - Manage trade-off decisions with focus on total company performance and mindset - Member Fin, Mkt/CD Leadership Team

- Providing independent reassurance to the Board and Mgmt. of Unilever that all major risks are managed - Offering practical and effective recommendations to improve controls and risk management across the company - All key business processes (A+R, Governance, Marketing, CD, SC, HR, IT) - Head of the Corporate Audit Office in Germany/Hamburg, managing a team of 8 direct reports - Member of UL Audit Leadership Team - Directly reporting into UL Chief Auditor

2005 UL established a Global Information Office (UIO) to directly support the UL Board, Global Cat. and Regions. The UIO reports into the CFO. Deliver pioneering global project work: The brief of the role was to strengthen the focus on external market performance in UL. A new global Market Share Info. System was delivered, establishing a single source for global share/size information across Regions, Cat, IR and Corporate. - Prepared monthly Market commentary in UL Global Board booklet & analysis

- Responsible for Global Foods Monthly- / Quarterly result reporting and planning, € 20bln - Preparing the monthly/quarterly Global Foods business commentary and analytics, incl. forecasting and strategic planning as well as regional target setting and control - Value Creation and Impairment Testing, responsible for Risk Management and Internal Controls - Close working relationship with Regional Business Groups and Controllers - Direct support of Senior Leadership, i.e. SVP Finance Global Foods

- Financial- and Management Accounting UL Foods Nordic (SWE, DK, FI, NOR), TO € 500m - Head of Finance department and leading big finance team of 28 employees - Result process, P/L and B/S, forecasting and planning - Overall board decision support, joined board meetings - Responsible for risk management and internal controls, treasury, audit contact - Change projects: Managing Bestfoods acquisition (due diligence) and migration. Implementation of SAP in the business

Management Accountant Bakery, UL Bakery Europe, Bremen - Business Partnering: Part of Marketing Team ‘Bakery’. Product Portfolio Analysis, evaluate Launches /Relaunches and Promotions etc. - Monthly Reporting and Budget Control: Analysis of Monthly Result and Reporting, Annual Plan, Fixed Costs and budget control

Unilever Deutschland Trainee Programme, Corporate Audit, Hamburg Including Special Assignments: 1995.01 – 1995.03 Secondment PwC 1996.08 – 1996.10 Unilever South Africa

Management/Organisation, Marketing und Finance