4 ❏ AEGON’S MANAGEMENT BOARD AEGON’s Management Board works alongside the Executive Board, and  helps oversee operational issues and the implementation of the company’s  strategy. Board members are drawn from AEGON’s country and operating  units, and have both regional and global responsibilities, ensuring that  AEGON is managed as an integrated, international business.  MANAGEMENT BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD Alexander R. Wynaendts  (1960, Dutch) Chief Executive Officer Chairman of the Executive Board Chairman of the Management Board Jan J. Nooitgedagt  (1953, Dutch) Chief Financial Officer Member of the Executive Board Member of the Management Board Mark Mullin (1963, US citizen) Member of the Management Board  responsible for the Americas Chief Executive Officer of AEGON  Americas Alex Wynaendts began his career in 1984  with ABN Amro Bank, working in  Amsterdam and London in the Dutch  bank’s capital markets, asset  management, corporate finance and  private banking operations. In 1997,  Mr. Wynaendts joined AEGON as Senior  Vice President for Group Business  Development. Since 2003, he has been  a member of AEGON’s Executive Board,  overseeing the company’s international  growth strategy. In April 2007,  Mr. Wynaendts was named AEGON’s  Chief Operating Officer. A year later, he  became CEO and Chairman of AEGON’s  Executive and Management Boards.  Jan Nooitgedagt has worked in Europe’s  financial services sector for over thirty  years. Formerly with PWC, he joined  Ernst & Young in 1980, becoming a  partner in the firm in 1989.  Mr. Nooitgedagt headed Ernst & Young’s  financial services business in the  Netherlands for five years until his  appointment in 2005 to the firm’s  Executive Committee. A year later,  Mr. Nooitgedagt was appointed Chairman  of Ernst & Young in the Netherlands and  became Managing Partner for the  Netherlands and Belgium in July 2008.  He was appointed AEGON’s Chief  Financial Officer in April 2009.  Mark Mullin has spent more than twenty  years with AEGON in various  management positions in both the  United States and Europe. Mr. Mullin has  served as President and CEO of one of  AEGON’s US subsidiaries, Diversified  Investment Advisors, and as head of the  company’s annuity and mutual fund  businesses. In January 2009, he was  named President of AEGON Americas  and became President and CEO of  AEGON Americas and a member of the  Management Board twelve months later. 