Neelie Kroes is head of the advisory board of taxi Uber. The former EU commissioner has been asked by the US company, she says at RTL Z.
Kroes get paid for the job. Earlier, she said when she was European Commissioner for Competition, that she would never get started in business. Even after her departure from Brussels, Alies Pegtel writes in the book Neelie. “I need to think about when I said,” she said about it on the phone from America. “After my departure there has been a cooling off period, this appointment is in accordance with the rules.” A spokesman for the European Commission confirms that request gets to RTL Z.
How many Kroes for its function is unknown, a spokesman Uber told news agency Bloomberg that get paid the members of the Board in shares. The company’s value was recently estimated at nearly $ 63 billion. The Council is composed further include a former Minister of Transport under Barack Obama, a former prime minister of Peru and a Saudi prince and princess.
Disruptive economy
“Uber plays a major role in the economy disruptive. I find that fascinating because it passed through the digital developments, many changes in the economy are “Kroes explains why she said yes to the question of Uber.
Uber continues its rapid international growth increasing to complex policy issues to. The former Minister and European Commissioner was asked by the US company said Kroes. “The app has great positive consequences: it makes life easier and creates jobs.” As a member of the Advisory Council may they thinking about all the issues have faced the company, she says.
She has long been a fan of Uber. In 2014, she took it bluntly for the company when a Belgian court pronounced a ban. “I am outraged by the decision,” she wrote on her blog on the website of the Commission. “Is this serious? What kind of legal system is”, she wondered. In tweets she stuck out her love for the company to hide:
No uncontroversial company
The taxi app is seen as the most successful and valuable start-up world. It has now driving drivers in over four hundred cities in 43 different countries. The company is not undisputed: in the Netherlands does the prosecution investigation Uber for violating the law with taxi service UberPOP.
Kroes acts in the Netherlands for some time as a special ambassador for start-ups. “Of course Uber is to provide it in everything it right, ” she writes in a general statement. She therefore said to look forward to Uber future of ‘candid feedback and advice.” Her experience in Brussels will be fine handy, because the European Commission is doing an investigation into the company.
Kroes gets busy
They get busy period ahead, because since the beginning this month the prominent VVD is also director of the American company Salesforce.com billion. in addition, Kroes also include special advisor to major US bank Merrill Lynch.
Uber always feels more competitors in the neck panting after Ford and General Motors also puts BMW soon the ocean with its’ car-sharing service This allows users via an app with one button press to rent a car parked in their neighborhood, the car manufacturers are not alone…: one after another similar service shoots out of the ground in the big cities of the United States.
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