Havelock Europa announces Ian Godden to its Board as upcoming Non-Executive Chairman

– UK, Kirkcaldy – Havelock Europa PLC (AIM:HVE.L), the international interior solutions provider is delighted to announce the appointment of Ian Adam Godden (aged 63) as a Non-executive Director and new Chairman.

Mr Godden has agreed to join the Board as a Non-executive Director and Chairman with effect from the close of a General Meeting to be held on 25 January 2017. David MacLellan will retire from the Board upon Mr Godden’s appointment.

Mr MacLellan said: “I am delighted to announce that Ian has agreed to become the new chairman of Havelock and his commitment to invest in the Company, at what is hoped will be a point of change for Havelock. Ian has a good understanding of Havelock’s activities, having been a director of the company from 1995 to 2006, and a track record of helping businesses grow.”

About Ian Godden

Ian Godden undertook a short but concentrated period of detailed strategic consultancy on behalf of Havelock in 1989 and was a non-executive director of the Company from 1995 to 2006, supporting the Company’s successful expansion into Financial Services and Point of Sale markets and its acquisition of ESA McIntosh in 2002. As a result, he has a good understanding of Havelock’s business and markets.

From 2011 to 2016 he was chairman of KBC Advanced Technologies Limited, during which time the company changed its strategic, operational and geographical focus; raised new equity; upgraded its senior executive group; and acquired new businesses, all part of an overall operational improvement and strategic redirection. Following the sale of the company to Yokogawa in April 2016, he has been serving as a part-time senior adviser to Yokogawa on its integration of KBC globally.

Previously, he enjoyed a successful consulting career with Booz Allen and Roland Berger, following his early business experience as an engineer and project manager with BP in the North Sea, Kuwait and the USA. He has an MBA from Stanford University in California and an engineering degree from the University of Edinburgh.

In 2006, Ian Godden retired from full time consulting and, from 2007 to 2013, he was chairman of Farnborough International Limited (which organises the Farnborough and Bahrain airshows).

He is currently a director of several other companies, including Bristow Group Inc, the world-leading industrial helicopter services company, based in Houston, US, and Glenmore Gas Inc, a US gas company that he founded in 2007.

The Board believes that Mr Godden’s track record with both large and small companies and his knowledge of Havelock make him very well qualified to be the new Chairman of the Company.

For more information : http://www.havelockeuropa.com

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