– UK, London – Hyve Group plc (LON: HYVE) today announced the appointments of Anna Bateson and Rachel Addison to its Board as Non-Executive Directors, with effect from 1 March 2022.
“I am delighted to welcome Anna and Rachel to the Board. Both bring a wealth of experience and expertise in areas which will be invaluable to the Group as we continue to emerge from the pandemic and develop our omnichannel strategy,” said Board Chairman, Richard Last.
The company also announced the appointment of Non-Executive Director Nick Backhouse to the role of Senior Independent Director, replacing Stephen Puckett who leaves the board today.
About Anna Bateson
Anna Bateson has a leadership and management background spanning media, retail, news, and technology. She has held several roles at the Guardian Media Group, including as Interim CEO. Prior to that, Anna served as a Digital Director at Charlotte Tilbury, Senior Director in the YouTube Global Consumer Marketing team at Google Inc, and also held marketing roles at ITV and MTV among others.
Currently Anna is serving as CEO of Josh Wood Colour, a founder-led fast growing home haircare brand.
About Rachel Addison
Rachel Addison brings nearly 30 years of finance and operational management experience and has most recently been CFO of Future plc, the global platform business for specialist media. Prior to Future, she was CFO at TI Media Limited and held a number of senior financial, operational, and board-level roles at Trinity Mirror (now Reach) Regionals, Local World Limited, Northcliffe Media Limited, and Boots the Chemist where she was Head of Risk Management. Rachel is a chartered accountant having started her career at Arthur Andersen. She is currently a Non-Executive Director at Marlowe plc and Mango Publishing Group.
About Nick Backhouse
Nick Backhouse has held the role of Non-Executive Director with the Group since 2019 and has been Chair of the Audit Committee since 2020. He has extensive experience at the Board level and is currently, amongst other roles, a Senior Independent Director of both Hollywood Bowl Group plc and Loungers plc.
About Hyve Group plc
Have Group plc is a next-generation global events business whose purpose is to bring together and connect entire sector ecosystems from all corners of the globe. We meet our customer needs to learn, network, and trade via both market-leading in-person and online events. Hyve Group plc is all about globally consistent best practice and unrivalled quality. Our vision is to create the world’s leading portfolio of content-driven, must-attend events delivering an outstanding experience and ROI for our customers. Hyve’s market-leading portfolio of global brands includes: Shoptalk, Spring Fair, MosBuild, Bett, Mining Indaba and recently acquired Retail Meetup, a ground-breaking digital platform enabling online networking and trade to take place at scale.
Where business is personal, where meetings move markets and where today’s leaders inspire tomorrow’s.
For more information: https://hyve.group/
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