The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced on Monday and Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News:
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Galliford Try Holdings PLC - Uxbridge, England-based construction company - Hires Alison Wood to be next non-executive chair, replacing Peter Ventress, who will step down from the board on September 15 after serving as a director for seven years. Wood will join the board on April 1 and take over as chair upon Ventress’s departure. Wood was director of strategy & corporate development at National Grid PLC and strategy director at BAE Systems PLC. Currently, she is senior independent director of Oxford Instruments PLC and a non-executive director of TT Electronics and Capricorn Energy PLC, formerly Cairn Energy.
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Mattioli Woods PLC - Leicester, England-based asset manager - David Kiddie is confirmed as non-executive chair, following regulatory approval. Kiddie’s appointment was first announced back in October. He replaces Joanne Lake, who steps down from the board immediately.
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Telecom Plus PLC - London-based provider of energy, communications and insurance for residences and businesses - Charles Wigoder moves from executive chair to non-executive chair, while non-executive directors Melvin Lawson and Julian Schild retire from the board, effective from annual general meeting in July. Telecom Plus is looking to recruit an additional independent non-executive director. It says the changes are to increase the number of independent non-executive directors on the board, following the appointment back in November of Stuart Burnett as co-chief executive officer alongside Andrew Lindsay.
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Gattaca PLC - Hampshire, England-based engineering and technology recruitment firm - Chief Executive Officer Kevin Freeguard and Chief Financial Officer Salar Farzad both will leave Gattaca at the end of April. Freeguard has been with Gattaca since 2018 and Farzad since 2017. Gattaca says it was Freeguard’s ‘original intention to leave at the end of this year but he felt, and the board agreed, that given the scale of further improvement required in the business, an earlier change of leadership was in the group’s interest.’ Meanwhile, Farzad believes ‘the business will be best served by a CFO who can partner with the new CEO for the long term.’ Chief Customer Officer Matt Wragg is promoted to CEO, starting April 1, having been with Gattaca for 20 years. Oliver Whittaker will succeed Farzad. Whittaker joined Gattaca in 2017 as director of financial planning, having been UK finance director for Fitness First.
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Microsaic Systems PLC - Surrey-based mass spectrometry equipment - CEO Glenn Tracey will leave Microsaic on March 31, rather than at the AGM in June, as previously planned. From April 1 until a successor as CEO is found, Chair Gerry Brandon will act as executive chair.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC - Brentford, England-based pharmaceutical firm - Names more directors for the board of Haleon, the new company to be formed from the demerger of the GSK Consumer Healthcare business in July. Dave Lewis, the former CEO of grocer Tesco PLC, previously had been named as chair. Vindi Banga, the current senior independent non-executive director of GSK, will be senior independent non-executive director of Haleon. Vivienne Cox, another non-executive director of GSK, also will be a non-executive director of Haleon. Meanwhile, John Young has been appointed as a non-executive director by Pfizer Inc, which holds a third of the current GSK Consumer Healthcare. Young currently is a director of the GSK-Pfizer joint-venture that will become Haleon. Two other non-executive directors of Haleon will be Tracy Clarke and Deirdre Mahlan. Clarke currently is a non-executive director of TP ICAP PLC. Mahlan is a director of Experian PLC and of Kimberly-Clark Corp. Two executive directors will be Haleon CEO Designate Brian McNamara and CFO Designate Tobias Hestler.
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