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Pedro Soares dos Santos

Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO

Pedro Soares dos Santos joined the Operating Division of Pingo Doce in 1983. In 1985, he joined the Sales and Marketing Department of Iglo/Unilever, and five years later, assumed the post of Assistant Director of Recheio Operations. In 1995, he was named General Manager of the latter Company. Between 1999 and 2000 he accepted responsibility for operations in Poland and in Brazil. In 2001, he also assumed responsibility for the operations area for Food Distribution in Portugal. He has been a Director of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A. since 31 March 1995, and has been Chief Executive Officer since 9 April 2010 and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since 18 December 2013.

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Andrzej Szlezak

Member of the Board of Directors

Andrzej Szlezak is a Polish national and has a Master degree in English philology and in law from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. In 1981, he passed the judicial exam and in 1994, he was admitted to the Chamber of Legal Advisors (Poznan Chapter). In 1979, he started his academic career at said university where he was awarded his doctorate and post-doctorate degrees in Law ("Habilitated Doctor") in 1985 and in 1992, respectively. In 1994, he was awarded a professorship at Adam Mickiewicz University (Law School), which he held until 1996. At present, he is a professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 1991, he joined the law firm of Soltysinski, Kawecki & Szlezak ("SK&S") where he became Partner in 1993 and Senior Partner in 1996. During his practice at SK&S he has provided legal advice in numerous privatization and restructuring transactions in many sectors of Polish economy (mostly in M&A, corporate and greenfield projects). Since 1999, he has been an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce (KIG) in Warsaw, being at the moment Deputy Chairman of the Arbitration Board of this Court. He has also been appointed an arbitrator in several proceedings (national and international) before the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris and in ad hoc proceedings conducted according to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He is also the author of several publications, including foreign-language publications, in the fields of civil, commercial and arbitration law. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 10 April 2013.

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António Viana-Baptista

Member of the Board of Directors

António Viana-Baptista holds a Degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1980), has a postgraduate diploma in European Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1981) and an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, 1983). Between 1985 and 1991, he was Principal Partner of Mckinsey & Co. in the Madrid and Lisbon offices. He held the post of Director in the Banco Português de Investimento, between 1991 and 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he was Chairman and CEO of Telefónica International. From 2002 to 2006 he was Chairman and CEO of Telefónica Móviles S.A. From 2006 to 2008, he was Chairman and CEO of Telefónica España. Between 2000 and 2008, he was a Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors of Portugal Telecom. He was CEO of Crédit Suisse AG for Spain and Portugal, from 2011 to 2016, acting currently as a consultant of that company. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 9 April 2010.

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A. Stefan Kirsten

Member of the Board of Directors

Artur Stefan Kirsten is a German national and took his master degree in Business Economics and Informatics, from 1981 to 1986, at the FernUniversität Hagen and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In 1991, he has taken his Doctorate Degree followed later by the Stanford Executive Program with the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University in California. Since 1995 he hás been teaching at different universities in Germany and abroad. Dr. Kirsten has been appointed to a professorship with the Westfaelische University in Gelsenkirchen since 2001. He serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Vonovia SE (former "Deutsche Annington SE") where he has been a member of the Management Board since 1st January 2011. He was Member of the Board of Directors of the Company, from April 2010 to February 2011, and he is currently a Board member at Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos BV. His previous positions were as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Majid Al Futtaiim Group LLC, a real estate development company focusing mainly on property, retail and ventures in the Emirates, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Metro AG and ThyssenKrupp AG in Germany. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 9 April 2015.

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Clara Christina Streit

Member of the Board of Directors

Clara Christina Streit is both a US and German citizen and holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She serves as an Associate Professor at the Lisbon Nova e Católica Universities and independent Non-Executive Director of several European corporations. She began her career as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company where she retired as Senior Partner in 2012, after more than 20 years of experience as an advisor to financial institutions. From 2013 to 2017, she served as Member of the Supervisory Board and as Chair of the Nomination Committee of the Dutch insurance company Delta Lloyd N.V. She serves as a Director of Bank Vontobel AG, since 2011, where she is also a member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee. Since 2013, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the German property company Vonovia SE (former "Deutsche Annington SE"). From May 2015, she has been Member of the Board of Directors and of the Internal Controls & Risks and Corporate Governance, HR & Nomination Committees at Unicredit S.p.A, Milan. In 2017, she was appointed Member of the Supervisory Board, Member of the Risk Committee and the Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee. She has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 9 April 2015.

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Francisco Seixas da Costa

Member of the Board of Directors

Francisco Seixas da Costa has a degree in Political and Social Sciences from the Universidade Técnica of Lisbon. He started his diplomatic career in 1975 as a diplomat in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 1995 and 2001, he was Secretary of State for European Affairs, where he had several official functions, amongst others, Portuguese chief negotiator of the EU Amsterdam treaty, from 1995 to 1997, Portuguese coordinator for the negotiation of the EU financial framework, from 1997 to 1999, and President of the Council of Ministers of the EU Internal Market in 2000. From 2001 until 2002, he was Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in New York, and, from 2002 until 2004, he was Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), in Vienna. Between 2004 and 2008, he was Ambassador to Brazil, in Brasília, and, between 2009 and 2013, he was Ambassador to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO (since 2012), in Paris. Since 2013, he has been member of the Consultative Council of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and member of the Strategic Council of Mota-Engil, SGPS, S.A. Since 2014, he is a professor in Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. In April 2016, he was appointed Director and member of the Nominations and Remunerations Committee of EDP Renováveis and, on 2017 he was appointed Member of the Independent General Council of RTP – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, S.A.. He is a columnist and cooperates with several publications, also being the author of several works on international issues and security. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 10 April 2013.

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Hans Eggerstedt

Member of the Board of Directors

Hans Eggerstedt is a German national, with a degree in Economics from the University of Hamburg. He joined Unilever in 1964, where he has spent his entire career. Among other positions, he was Director of Retail Operations, Ice Cream and Frozen Foods in Germany, President and CEO of Unilever Turkey, Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe, Financial Director and Information and Technology Director of Unilever. He was nominated to the Board of Directors of Unilever N.V. and Unilever PLC in 1985, a position he held until 1999. Between 2003 and 2012, he was a Non-Executive Director of the COLT Telekom Group S.A., from Luxembourg. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 29 June 2001.

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Henrique Soares dos Santos

Member of the Board of Directors

Henrique Soares dos Santos holds a Degree in Management by Instituto Superior de Gestão and is an Alumni of INSEAD. He began his career in 1993 as Management Accountant Trainee at Fima – Produtos Alimentares S.A., and one year later was Assistant of the Management Accounting Director. He served as Budget Controller of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., between 1996 and 1997, the year he started serving as Treasury Manager of Eurocash Sp z.o.o in Poland, until 1998. The following year he was appointed Financial Controller of Jerónimo Martins Retail Activity Polska Sp z.o.o. In 2001, he served as Deputy Group Controller and in, the same year he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, a position he held until 2002. He last served as both Company Secretary and Chief Information Security Officer of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A. He was Member of the Board of Directors of Waterventures – Consultoria, Projectos e Investimentos, S.A. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of Jerónimo Martins – Serviços, S.A., of Arica Holding B.V., of Sindcom – lnvestimentos, Participações e Gestão, S.A., as well as of Nesfia – Sociedade Imobiliária, S.A. and Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos, II, S.A. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 9 April 2015.

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Sérgio Tavares Rebelo

Member of the Board of Directors

Sérgio Tavares Rebelo has a degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He alço has a M.Sc. in Operations Research from Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, as well as a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Rochester. He began his academic career as an instructor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in 1981. In 1988, he joined Northwestern University as Assistant Professor of Finance and became Associated Professor of Finance, in 1991. Between 1992 and 1997, he was Associated Professor of the Department of Economics of the University of Rochester and, since 1997, he has been Tokai Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management, of Northwestern University. Since 1982, he has published numerous articles and books on economics and finance. He has been a Member of the Advisory Council to the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs, since April 2012, and was appointed Non-Executive Director of Integrated DNA Technologies, as from September 2015. He has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company, since 10 April 2013.