Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee is a Netherlands; Dutch businessperson who has been the head of 9 different companies and currently is Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc and Chairman-Supervisory Board at ASML Holding NV. Mr. Kleisterlee is also on the board of Royal Dutch Shell Plc and De Nederlandsche Bank and Chairman of IMD Scholarship Foundation and Member of Asia Business Council.

He previously held the position of Chairman-Management Board, President & CEO at Koninklijke Philips NV Chief Executive Officer of Philips Components and President at Philips Taiwan Ltd. (both are subsidiaries of Koninklijke Philips NV), President at Royal Philips Consumer Electronics, Managing Director at Philips Display Components, Member of European Round Table of Industrialists, Chairman-Supervisory Board at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Chairman at Stichting Onderzoek Cancer Center Amsterdam.

Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee received an undergraduate degree from Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.