Mr. John Bayard Livingston is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Joint Company Secretary of the Company. Mr. Livingston is responsible for all of the Company’s legal matters worldwide and provides counsel to senior management and the Directors on matters of corporate governance. Mr. Livingston joined the Group in July 2006 and was Vice President and General Counsel for the Group’s Americas division until September 2009 when he became Vice President and General Counsel of the Group.

Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Livingston was in-house counsel (2002 to 2006) at Reebok International Ltd. and was an associate in the corporate department of Ropes & Gray (1995 to 2002).

Mr. Livingston holds a BA in Political Science from Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA (1989), and a JD from Boston College Law School, Newton, Massachusetts, USA (1994).