Gerard Johannes Kleisterlee is a Netherlands; Dutch businessperson who has been the head of 9 different companies and presently occupies the position of Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc and Chairman-Supervisory Board for 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.

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

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