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Board of Directors N R N A N R A N R Geoff Drabble Miles Roberts Adrian Marsh Celia Baxter Alina Kessel Chairman Group Chief Executive Group Finance Director Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director Key strengths: Key strengths: Key strengths: Key strengths: Key strengths: • Wealth of industrial and • Clear strategic mindset • Strong financial expertise • Extensive HR experience • Broad and wide-ranging international experience • Strong leadership skills within an international and ESG knowledge and marketing experience • Extensive experience as a context experience • International outlook External appointment: chairman • Wealth of finance • Board experience in • Miles is a non-executive External appointment: experience in large listed non-UK listed companies External appointments: director of Aggreko plc • Alina is a Global Client multinationals • Geoff is Non-Executive External appointments: Leader at WPP, a leading Miles was appointed to the Chairman of Ferguson plc External appointment: • Celia is the senior international marketing Board on 4 May 2010 as and a Non-Executive • Adrian is a non-executive independent director and communications Group Chief Executive. Director of Howden director and audit the remuneration company Joinery Group Plc. Following his engineering committee chairman at committee chair at Senior Alina was appointed to the degree he became a John Wood Group PLC plc and remuneration Geoff was appointed to the Board on 1 May 2020 as a chartered accountant and committee chair at RHI Board on 1 September 2020 Adrian was appointed to the Non-Executive Director. brings to the Board Magnesita NV as a Non-Executive Director Board on 24 September extensive financial and She has over 25 years and became the Chairman of 2013 as Group Finance Celia was appointed to the operational experience. He of experience building the Board and the Director. Board as a Non-Executive was previously Chief global brands for large Nomination Committee on Director and Chairman of Executive of McBride plc, As the former head of Tax, multinational clients, helping 3 January 2021. Geoff the Remuneration having originally joined as Treasury and Corporate them grow their business served for 12 years as Chief Committee on 9 October its Group Finance Director. Finance at Tesco PLC, through communications, Executive of Ashtead Group 2019. He was Senior Independent Adrian has helped DS Smith experience, commerce and plc, the FTSE 100 industrial Director of Poundland Group to significantly build the Most recently Celia was technology. Her current role equipment rental company. plc until September 2016. finance function and deliver Director of Group HR and with WPP includes working He was previously an strong financial results. As a responsible for all ESG with global clients on their executive director of The As Group Chief Executive qualified accountant, and activities at Bunzl plc for 13 sustainability agenda. Laird Group plc and held a Miles leads the executive coming from a FTSE years. Her early executive Originally from the Ukraine number of senior management of the Group background, he has held career was with Ford Motor and a US national, Alina has management positions at and is responsible for divisional CFO positions at Company and KPMG. She lived and worked in the UK, Black & Decker. DS Smith’s overall both AstraZeneca plc and has held HR positions with US, Australia and Germany, environmental, social and Geoff’s wealth of industrial Pilkington plc. Hays plc, Enterprise Oil Plc where she was CEO of Grey governance (ESG) and international and Tate & Lyle Plc. As a Advertising and, later, of performance and its clear Adrian’s depth of experience, combined with non-executive director she DDB Tribal Group. objectives at the centre of experience in a range of his experience of chairing was on the board of NV our business model. He financial roles in large listed Alina’s experience of living, boards of listed companies Bekaert SA until May 2020. chairs the Group’s Health, multinationals means that as well as working, in a and his awareness of both Safety, Environment and his skills and experience Celia’s background of number of different the non-executive and chief Sustainability Committee contribute to the Board’s working in a range of countries, including the US, executive perspective, that monitors the understanding of all aspects sectors means that, as well combined with her means that his skills and establishment of goals, of the financial implications, as her experience as a expertise in marketing and experience contribute to reporting and related whether risks or remuneration committee communications means that the Board’s practical governance procedures. opportunities, of both the chairman and her her skills and experience will understanding of good routine and project aspects understanding of employee contribute an additional governance in action, Miles’ strong leadership of the Group’s business and dynamics and ESG issues, perspective to the Board’s balancing stakeholders’ skills combined with his operations. she brings extensive and discussions, particularly interests across the range clear strategic mindset, practical business when considering the of issues considered by the rooted in the practicality of knowledge to the Board. interests of employees Board, including his engineering and (based in over 30 countries) environmental, social and accountancy training, and our global customers governance matters. means that his skills and and discussing how to experience, and ability to communicate key identify material risks and non-financial aspects of our sustainable growth business. opportunities for the Group’s business, contribute 62 to the Board’s clear strategic vision. GOVERNANCE Principal Board A Audit N Nomination R Remuneration Chair Committees key: Committee Committee Committee A N R A N R A N R David Robbie Louise Smalley Rupert Soames OBE Iain Simm Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director Senior Independent Group General Counsel Director and Company Secretary Key strengths: Key strengths: • Strong financial and • Strong HR experience Key strengths: Key strengths: corporate finance • Extensive knowledge of • Wealth of international • Legal expertise experience people management, operational experience • Wealth of experience in • International and rewards and • Extensive understanding assisting boards with strategic mindset remuneration schemes of UK plc environment as legal and governance a serving CEO matters External appointments: External appointment: • David is the senior • Louise is Group Human External appointment: External appointment: independent director and Resources Director and • Rupert is Group Chief • None audit committee chair at an executive director of Executive Officer at Serco Iain was appointed Group FirstGroup PLC and Whitbread PLC Group plc General Counsel and non-executive director of Louise was appointed to the Rupert was appointed to Company Secretary on easyJet plc. Board on 23 June 2014 as a the Board on 1 March 2019 6 June 2016. David was appointed to the Non-Executive Director. as a Non-Executive Director He has previously held Board as a Non-Executive and became Senior She has held several key General Counsel and Director on 11 April 2019 Independent Director at the transformation and HR roles Company Secretary roles and became Chairman of the conclusion of the 2019 AGM. at Whitbread PLC, spanning with Signature Aviation plc Audit Committee at the 25 years of growth and He was previously Chief and P&O Ports Ltd. He conclusion of the 2019 AGM. significant change for the Executive at Aggreko plc undertook his legal training He was previously Finance companies in that group. and Chief Executive of Misys with Slaughter and May and Director of Rexam PLC, She previously worked as an plc Banking and Securities worked for a number of before its £4.3 billion HR professional in the oil Division. Until July 2016 years in their corporate and acquisition by Ball industry, with BP and Esso Rupert was also Senior commercial department. Corporation in 2016. Prior to Petroleum. Louise is an Independent Director of his role at Rexam, in the alumna of the Cambridge Electrocomponents plc and aluminium packaging Institute for Sustainability a member of its business, David served in Leadership and has Remuneration, Nomination senior finance roles at BTR experience of leading timely and Audit Committees. plc before becoming Group evolutions to sustainability Rupert’s hands on Finance Director at CMG plc strategies. experience of the UK plc in 2000 and then Chief Louise’s experience as a environment as a serving Financial Officer at Royal serving listed company CEO, balancing the P&O Nedloyd N.V. in 2004. executive director over the management of risk and He served as a non- last eight years, combined reward, combined with the executive director of the with her extensive wealth of his international BBC between 2006 and knowledge of progressive operational experience 2010 and as Chairman of people management means that his skills and their audit committee. David practices in multi-site large experience contribute to qualified as a chartered scale businesses, means the Board’s international accountant at KPMG. that her skill and experience outlook, embedded in a David’s strong financial, risk contribute to the Board’s clear-sighted view of management and corporate focus on the importance of operational realities in finance experience enabling everyone who today’s world. combined with his works for