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WPP appoints Tom Ilube CBE to the Board
WPP appoints Tom Ilube CBE to the Board.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 0189B\n WPP PLC\n 05 October 2020\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n \n \n \n \n 5 October 2020\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WPP PLC (\"WPP\")\n \n \n \n \n \n WPP appoints Tom Ilube CBE to the Board\n \n \n \n \n \n WPP today announces the appointment of Tom Ilube CBE to its Board as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.\n \n \n \n \n \n Tom is a technology entrepreneur and educational philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of AIM-listed Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, a technology commercialisation company focused on the cyber security sector and has previously founded several other technology start-ups. He is a Non-Executive Director of the BBC, where he serves on the audit and risk committee and chairs the fair-trading committee. He is also responsible for protected disclosures across the BBC, chairs the diversity and inclusion advisory group, and recently supported the appointment process for the new Director-General.\n \n \n \n \n \n From 2010 to 2014, Tom was Managing Director of Consumer Markets at Callcredit Information Group, the private equity-backed UK credit reference agency. Whilst at Callcredit, Tom founded Noddle, a credit reporting service that eventually grew to four million users and was acquired by US-based Credit Karma in 2018. Prior to Callcredit, Tom founded and was CEO of Garlik, a venture capital-backed identity protection company, sold to Experian in 2011. \n \n \n \n \n \n In the early 2000s, Tom served as Chief Information Officer of Egg Banking plc, the UK's first internet bank, and his 30-year career in the UK technology sector also includes roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Goldman Sachs and the London Stock Exchange. He chaired the UK Government Technology Strategy Board's Network Security Innovation panel, and was a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Cyber Security at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a Geneva-based UN agency. \n \n \n \n \n \n In his education work, Tom is the founder and Chair of the African Gifted Foundation, a programme for exceptionally gifted African children, which launched the African Science Academy, the continent's first all-girls science and maths school. He was made a Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by City, University of London and an Honorar...