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Electrocomponents appoints former UK minister as new chairman

Published: 08:24 06 Oct 2020 BST

Electrocomponents - Electrocomponents appoints former UK minister asnew chairman
(Source: The Times)

Electrocomponents Plc (LON:ECM) has appointed Baroness Rona Fairhead to succeed Peter Johnson as chairman.

Fairhead will join the board on November 1 as a non-executive director and will become chairman on February 1 when Johnson steps down.

READ: Electrocomponents says business was resilient in Q1, groups revenue drops 11%

She has held senior executive and non-executive roles in a career spanning over 35 years, including chairman and chief executive officer of the Financial Times, chief financial officer at publisher Pearson, executive vice president at ICI and senior roles at aviation business Bombardier.

Fairhead has also been a member of the House of Lords since 2017, was chair of the BBC Trust from 2014 to 2017 and UK Minister of State for Trade and Exports from 2017 and 2019.

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