JASMINE WHITBREAD TO JOIN BT

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BT Group PLC

18 January 2011

 



JASMINE WHITBREAD TO JOIN BT BOARD

Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of Save the Children International, is to join the BT Board as a non-executive director.  Her appointment takes effect from January 19 2011.

Jasmine has been with Save the Children since 2005, initially as chief executive of Save the Children UK, where she revitalised one of the country's most established charities, positioning it at the centre of relevant public policy debates and growing top-line income by 70%.  

She was appointed as the charity's first international chief executive last year, overseeing work in 120 countries and taking overall responsibility for revenues of more than US$1bn.

Before working in the non-profit sector, Jasmine had a career in international marketing in the technology sector. In the 1990s she served as managing director of a Thomson Financial business based in the US.  She is an existing member of BT's Committee for Sustainable and Responsible Business.  

Welcoming the appointment, BT's Chairman, Sir Michael Rake, said: "Jasmine has valuable experience in UK and global businesses, will help to strengthen BT's corporate social responsibility brand and help us build a better future for all our stakeholders."  

Jasmine added: "I have enjoyed getting to know BT and am impressed with the transformative path the Board has embarked upon - to build a better business with a better future.  I am excited about joining the Board and look forward to engaging with the challenges and opportunities ahead."

Jasmine Whitbread biography

Jasmine Whitbread was appointed as CEO of the newly-created Save the Children International in 2010. She is responsible for aligning behind a single mission and strategy all 29 members of Save the Children as they deliver programmes in 120 countries; and for merging all international programmes into a single operation with 14 000 staff and revenues of over US$1bn. Prior to this Jasmine had been CEO of Save the Children UK since 2005.  

From 1999 to 2005 Jasmine held positions with Oxfam as Regional Director in West Africa and as International Director, responsible for Oxfam's emergency and development programmes worldwide, including the unprecedented Asian Tsunami response.

Prior to this, Jasmine was a Managing Director for Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) based in Boston, USA, where she launched new product lines and developed new markets in Latin America.  She has a background in international marketing in the technology sector, developing sales channels and global distribution networks for business-to-business software and services for a US venture-capital-funded start-up and a subsidiary of a UK multinational.

Jasmine holds dual British/Swiss nationality and is married with two children.

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