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About this update from Smith & Nephew Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \nAppointment of Non-Executive Directors and Confirmation of Chair\n14 September 2023\nSmith+Nephew (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), the global medical technology company, announces the following Board appointments.\nThe Company is pleased to announce that Jeremy (Jez) Maiden and Simon Lowth will be joining the Board as independent Non-Executive Directors. Jez joins today and will serve as a member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee. Simon will join on 1 January 2024 and will serve as a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination & Governance Committee.\nAdditionally, Rupert Soames will, as planned, assume the role as Chair of the Board on 15 September, in succession to Roberto Quarta. Rupert has also been appointed as Chair of the Nomination & Governance Committee and will continue to serve on the Remuneration Committee.\nJez Maiden has extensive global financial experience across a diverse range of industries and sectors. He retired earlier this year as Group Finance Director at Croda International, the FTSE-100 global speciality chemicals company, and before that held similar roles at National Express Group and Northern Foods. He is currently Senior Independent Director at Travis Perkins plc and a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit Committee at Intertek Group plc. Previously, he served as the Senior Independent Director at Synthomer and at both PZ Cussons and Synthomer he chaired the Audit Committee and served on the Remuneration Committee. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.\nSimon Lowth has deep experience in finance, accounting, risk, corporate strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions. He currently serves as Group Chief Financial officer of BT Group, a role he has held since 2016 and previously performed the same role at BG Group, AstraZeneca and Scottish Power. Before joining Scottish Power, he led the Industrial Practice of McKinsey in the UK and has a background in engineering. He previously served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Standard Chartered. He currently holds no additional external appointments.\nRupert Soames commented:\n\"We are delighted to be able to announce two such strong appointments to our Board. Simon and Jez bring deep executive and non-executive experience of serving on boards of companies which have had to address s...