London, United Kingdom - September 20, 2012, London, United Kingdom - Segro, an owner-manager and developer of industrial property, announced the appointments of Christopher Fisher and Baroness Ford as non-executive directors, effective October 1, 2012 and January 1, 2013, respectively.
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Mr. Fisher has more than 30 years of corporate finance experience, principally gained at Lazard where he became a Managing Director and then at KPMG where he was Vice Chairman, Corporate Finance. In June 2012, he was appointed as Chairman of Bank of Ireland UK plc, having been a Non-Executive Director since 2010. He is also currently a senior partner at Penfida Partners.
Previously, Mr. Fisher held the position of Chairman of Southern Cross Healthcare Group Plc, a position he stepped up to in April 2011, having served as a Non-Executive Director since 2006. In September 2011 he led the negotiations for a comprehensive solvent restructuring with its creditors and he subsequently resigned on 30 September 2011.
Baroness Ford has held a number of senior positions in both the public and private sector and was appointed a Working Peer in 2006. She has considerable experience of the real estate market and the support services sector. Most recently she has served as Chairman of the Olympic Park Legacy Company for the past three years. She has also been Chairman of English Partnerships, the national regeneration agency for England.
Additionally, Baroness Ford was the co-founder of the Eglinton Management Centre, a training and development business, and has also worked as Managing Director for Real Estate at Royal Bank of Canada, Capital Markets. She is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Barchester Healthcare and May Gurney Integrated Services.
Baroness Ford is also a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee for Grainger. She has previously served as the Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee for Serco Group. She will become the Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration CompanyM.
The company also announced that Andrew Palmer, Senior Independent Director, and Chris Peacock, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, will be retiring from the Board at the Company’s AGM on April 23, 2013.
Mr. Palmer was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on 26 January 2004. He was Group Finance Director of Legal & General Group where he had also held a number of financial and operational roles in the asset management, insurance and international businesses.
Mr. Palmer is a Non-Executive director of RBS Insurance and Royal London, a Director of the Royal School of Needlework and a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Aged 58. He is a Member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.
Mr. Peacock was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on 28 January 2004. He is a Director of Howard De Walden Estates Limited and sits on the Advisory Investment Committee for Trinova Real Estate LLP. He was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle. ■