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24th July 2024, 06:00
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Morgan Advanced Materials PLC
24 July 2024
 

24 July 2024

 

MORGAN ADVANCED MATERIALS PLC

 

Appointment of Senior Independent Director

 

Morgan Advanced Materials plc ("Morgan"; "Company"), the global manufacturer of advanced carbon and ceramic materials for complex and technologically demanding applications, announces today the appointment of Alison Wood as Senior Independent Director. Alison will join the Board on 1 November 2024; at which point Laurence Mulliez will step down as Senior Independent Director and a director of the Company.

Alison is a highly experienced non-executive director with a significant background in international industrials. She brings deep governance expertise gained across numerous listed businesses, having served as Chair, Senior Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chair in a number of FTSE 350 businesses. In her executive career, she was central to the strategic development of BAE Systems plc as Group Strategic Development Director (2004 to 2008) and was also Global Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at National Grid plc (2008 to 2013). She currently serves as Chair of Galliford Try Holdings plc, Senior Independent Director and Remuneration Committee Chair of Oxford Instruments plc and Remuneration Committee Chair of TT Electronics plc.

Commenting on the appointment, Ian Marchant, Chair, said:

"We are delighted that Alison will be joining the Board. She brings a wealth of expertise in listed company governance. Her insightful and strategic leadership and valuable commercial expertise will support the further progress and the success of the Group in the years ahead.

On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Laurence for her extensive commercial insight and the contribution she has made to Morgan's strategic thinking over the past eight years. I would also like to thank her personally for the part she has played as Senior Independent Director in helping me to settle into my role as Chair. We wish her well for the future."

 

 

For further enquiries:

Pete Raby                           Morgan Advanced Materials plc                                01753 837 000

Richard Armitage

Nina Coad                           Brunswick                                                                  0207 404 5959

 

Notes:

1.  Alison will become a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees on appointment.

2.  For the purpose of Listing Rule 9.6.13(R), Alison was also a non-executive director and Remuneration Committee Chair of Capricorn Energy plc (2019 to 2023), Senior Independent Director & Remuneration Committee Chair of Costain Group plc (2014 to 2022) and non-executive director and Remuneration Committee Chair of Cobham plc (2011 to 2020). There is no further information to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13(R).

3.  The Directors have determined that upon appointment she will be independent.

 

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