Gerhard Pleuhs — Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Mondelez International North America

Mr. Gerhard W. Pleuhs, also known as Gerd, has been an Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Mondelez International, Inc. since April 1, 2012. Mr. Pleuhs served as Executive Vice President of Legal Affairs, senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Business Units at Kraft Foods Inc. He was responsible for the legal, corporate secretary and compliance functions at Kraft Foods Inc. He joined the Law Department of Jacobs Kaffee Deutschland GmbH in 1985, prior to its acquisition in 1990 by Altria Group, Inc. Mr. Pleuhs held a number of senior positions within the German Law Department, including Chief Counsel for the combined operations of Kraft and Jacobs Suchard, covering legal and regulatory affairs. In 2000, he was appointed Vice President & Chief Counsel for Kraft's Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Region, headquartered in Vienna. In 2003, Mr. Pleuhs was appointed Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Kraft Foods International, Inc. based in Rye Brook, N.Y. In 2004, he moved to Northfield, IL to assume the position of Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, International for Kraft Foods Global, Inc. He was promoted to Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Business Units in November 2007. On April 1st, 2012 Gerd became Kraft Foods??? EVP & General Counsel, reporting to the CEO. Since leaving the ???home territory??? in Bremen, Germany, for more than a decade, Mr. Pleuhs has been involved in and dealt with a wide variety of legal issues and matters. His work has involved many jurisdictions and areas of law and compliance, including much of Kraft's international M&A activity. He negotiated Kraft's acquisition of businesses in Morocco, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Poland, Turkey and Egypt. He was the lead negotiator in Kraft's 2007 $7.6Bn acquisition of Danone's LU biscuit business. He was also a member of the core team responsible for Kraft's $19Bn Cadbury acquisition in 2010. With the announcement of the separation of Kraft Foods Inc. into two separate publicly-traded companies, Mondelez international, Inc. and Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Mr. Pleuhs led the many legal work streams that enabled the spin-off of Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Mr. Pleuhs is the President of the co-determined Supervisory Board of Mondelez International in Germany. He was a member of the Kraft Developing Markets and the North American leadership teams before he joined the Mondelez International Leadership team. He served as a Director of Chromium Acquisitions Ltd. and Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Mr. Pleuhs has a law degree from the University in Kiel and is a member of the Bar in Bremen, Germany.