Whitbread announces Jonathan Howell to join its Board as Independent Director

– UK, Dunstable –  Whitbread PLC (LON: WTB) announced the appointment of Jonathan Howell to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director effective from 1 January 2026

Jonathan Howell will also Chair of the Audit Committee.

About Jonathan Howell

Jonathan Howell is a seasoned executive and experienced public company director. He is Group CFO of The Sage Group plc, a position which he has held since 2018 and will step down from at the end of 2025.

Before that, he was Group CFO of Close Brothers Group plc for ten years. Before that, he was Group CFO of The London Stock Exchange Group for nine years. The early part of Jonathan’s career was at Price Waterhouse, where he qualified as a chartered accountant.

Jonathan Howell is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Experian plc and previously served as a Non-Executive Director and as Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Sage from 2013 to 2018, before becoming the Group CFO.

For more: https://www.whitbread.co.uk/

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