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Non-Executive Director appointment
Non-Executive Director appointment.
About this update from Unilever Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 9890O\n Unilever PLC\n 13 October 2021\n \n \n \n Appointment of Non-Executive Director\n \n \n London, 13 October 2021 - Unilever PLC today announces that Ruby Lu has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the company, with effect from 1 November 2021. Ruby will join both the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee upon appointment.\n \n Nils Andersen, Chairman of Unilever, said: \"I am very pleased that Ruby has agreed to join the Board. She has had a successful executive career, and will further strengthen the Board with her extensive financial and global market experience\".\n \n Ruby is a venture capitalist investing in technology start-ups in the U.S. and China. Ruby founded Atypical Ventures, an early-stage technology venture investment firm, in 2019. In 2006, she co-founded DCM China, a venture capital firm. During her more than 12-year tenure at DCM, she invested in, and served as a board member for, many leading technology companies. Prior to joining DCM in 2003, Ruby was a vice president in the investment banking group of technology, media and telecommunications at Goldman Sachs & Co.\n \n Ruby is currently a Non-Executive Director at Uxin Limited and Yum China. Within the last five years, Ruby has been a Non-Executive Director at two other companies which were publicly quoted during such time: Blue City Holdings Limited and Ikang Healthcare Group. There are no additional matters that require disclosure under 9.6.13R of the UK Listing Rules.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Media: \n \n Media Relations team\n \n \n +44 78 2527 3767\n \n \n \n [email protected]\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Investors\n \n : Investor Relations team\n \n \n +44 20 7822 6830\n \n \n \n [email protected]\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n -ends-\n \n \n \n \n This announcement may contain forward-looking statements, including 'forward-looking statements' within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 'will', 'aim', 'expects', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'looks', 'believes', 'vision', or the negative of these terms and other similar expressions of future performance or results, and their negatives, are...