Lynn Laverty Elsenhans

Lynn was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of GSK on 1 July 2012. Lynn has a wealth of experience of running a global business and significant knowledge of the global markets in which GSK operates. She served as Chair, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sunoco Inc from 2009 to 2012. Prior to joining Sunoco in 2008 as President and Chief Executive Officer, Lynn worked for Royal Dutch Shell, which she joined in 1980, and where she held a number of senior roles, including Executive Vice President, Global Manufacturing from 2005 to 2008. Lynn was previously a Non-Executive Director of Flowserve Corporation, the First Tee of Greater Houston, and a Trustee of the United Way of Greater Houston.

"Lynn is a Non-Executive Director of Baker Hughes Company, a Board Director of Saudi Aramco and Chair of its Audit Committee, and a Director of the Texas Medical Center."

Lynn Laverty Elsenhan "chairman, chief executive officer and president, Sunoco, Inc., manufacturer and marketer of petrochemical products. Ms. Elsenhans is also chairman of the board and director of Sunoco Partners, LLC, the general partner of Sunoco Logistics Partners, LP. Sunoco Logistics engages in the transport, terminalling and storage of refined products and crude oil. Ms. Elsenhans previously served as executive vice president, global manufacturing, Shell Downstream Inc., a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, from January 2005 until July 2008. She served concurrently as president of Shell Oil Company and chief executive officer of Shell Oil Products U.S. from 2003 until 2005. Ms. Elsenhans is a trustee of Rice University and First Tee, an overseer for the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice, and serves on the board of the Texas Medical Center. Director since March 15, 2007."

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