Connect Group announces Board member Mark Whiteling as Senior Independent Director

– UK, Swindon – Connect Group PLC (LSE:CNCT), is pleased to announce the proposed appointment of Mark Whiteling as Senior Independent Director in place of Andrew Brent who will, in light of having served on the Board for more than nine years from the date of his first election, step down and retire from the Board at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on 23 January 2018.…

RBS appoints Dr Lena Wilson to its Board as Non-Executive Director alongside Mark Seligman as new Senior Independent Director

– UK, Edinburgh – The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LSE:RBS), announces today that with effect from 1 January 2018:

  • Sir Sandy Crombie will step down as a non-executive director of RBS, and as Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Group Performance & Remuneration Committee;
  • Robert Gillespie will assume the role of Chairman of the Group Performance & Remuneration Committee and will assume the role of Senior Independent Director and will be appointed as a member of the Group Performance & Remuneration Committee; and
  • Dr Lena Wilson, CBE will be appointed as a non-executive director of RBS.