Richmond, United Kingdom - October 3, 2013, Richmond, United Kingdom - Vitec Group, a manufacturer of broadcasting equipment, announced the appointment of Mark Rollins to the board as a non-executive director.
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Mr. Rollins is a chartered accountant and is currently Chief Executive of Senior plc, being appointed to that position in March 2008.
He joined Senior plc in 1998 from Morgan Crucible plc, and became Group Finance Director in 2000. He was formerly a Non-Executive Director of WSP Group from 2006 to 2012.
He holds a first class degree in Engineering.
The company also announced that Simon Beresford-Wylie will cease to be a non-executive director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and will be succeeded by Carolyn Fairbairn in that role on December 1, 2013.
Mr. Beresford-Wylie was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2006;. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited on 15 January 2013.
Previously he served as Chief Executive Officer of Elster Group SE, Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks and member of the Nokia Group Executive Board having joined the Nokia Group in 1998 from Indian mobile operator Modi Telstra (Pte. Ltd.), where he was Chief Executive Officer.
Prior to that Mr. Beresford-Wylie held various management positions within Telstra's Corporate and Government Business Unit.
Ms. Fairbairn was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2012 and she is a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees.
She is currently a non-executive director of Lloyds Banking Group plc and the UK Statistics Authority, and will be a non-executive director of the Competition and Markets Authority on its formation in October 2013.
Ms. Fairbairn was previously a non-executive director of the Financial Services Authority between 2007 and 2011.
Until April 2011, she was Director of Group Development and Strategy at ITV plc, having also spent five years as Director of Strategy at the BBC and a member of its Executive Board.
Ms. Fairbairn has also been a partner at McKinsey, where she specialised in media, and a policy adviser in the Number 10 Policy Unit. ■