Appointment of Non Executive Director

RNS Number : 2656K

dotDigital Group plc

21 April 2020

 

21 April 2020

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital", "the Company" or "the Group")

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

dotdigital Group plc (AIM: DOTD), the leading 'SaaS' provider of an omnichannel marketing automation and customer engagement platform, announces that it has appointed Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Richards to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee with effect from 1 May 2020.

Liz is a highly experienced executive and non-executive director with a career spanning the Financial Services, Data and Software sectors. After an early career with Lloyds Bank, Liz qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and subsequently held senior finance roles at Silentnight Holdings plc and Skipton Building Society. From 2000 to 2015, Liz was Chief Financial Officer for Callcredit (now Transunion), a successful consumer data business, where she oversaw its growth from being a start-up in 2000 to a company with £150m revenues and 1,200 people by 2015.

Liz currently holds Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair positions at both LINK Scheme Ltd and Tracsis plc. Liz also holds two pro bono roles, Chair of Audit for Leeds Trinity University and Chair of Finance and Investment for Yorkshire Cancer Research. Liz will chair the Audit Committee of dotdigital.

The appointment follows the Board's previously stated intention to recruit an additional independent non-executive director, in line with the standards set by the QCA Corporate Governance Code. Following this appointment, the Board comprises three independent non-executive directors and two executive directors.

Mike O'Leary, Chairman of dotdigital, commented: "On behalf of the Board, I would like to welcome Liz to the team. Her career as a highly successful CFO and Chair of Audit, coupled with her wealth of PLC experience, is complementary to the existing skillset on the dotdigital Board and I am confident we will benefit from her stewardship."

The following information on Elizabeth Anne Richards, aged 62, is provided in accordance with rule 17 of the AIM Rules for Companies :

Current Directorships

Former Directorships held in the past 5 years

Leeds Trinity University Link Scheme Ltd Link Scheme Holdings Ltd Tracsis plc Yorkshire Cancer Research

Call@credit Plc Callcredit Consumer Limited Callcredit Data Solutions Limited Callcredit Information Group Limited Callcredit lead Generation Limited Callcredit Limited Callcredit Marketing Limited Callcredit Marketing Solutions Limited Callcredit Operations UAB Callcredit Public Sector Limited Coactiva Limited Credit Karma UK Limited Crown Acquisition Bidco Limited Crown Acquisition Midco 2 Limited Crown Acquisition Midco Limited Data Factoring Limited Decision Metrics Limited DMWSL 617 Limited DMWSL 618 Limited DMWSL 619 Limited DMWSL 620 Limited GMAP Japan KK GMAP Limited GMAP Marketing Consulting Shanghai Company Limited Jellyfish Digital Marketing Limited (prev. Latitude Digital Marketing Limited) Legatio Technologies Limited Listknife Limited Logicbox Limited Orbitron Limited Process Benchmarking Limited Tenant ID Limited The Comparisons Limited Transunion Information Group Limited Transunion International UK Limited

No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to AIM Rule 17 and Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information please contact:

dotdigital Group Plc Milan Patel, CEO Paraag Amin, CFO	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Alma PR (Financial PR) Hilary Buchanan Josh Royston David Ison	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]
Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor and Joint Broker) Bobbie Hilliam Georgina McCooke Jonathan Barr, Sales	Tel: [phone]
finnCap (Joint Broker) Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance Rhys Williams, Sales	Tel: [phone]
N+1 Singer (Joint Broker) Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate Finance Alex Bond, Corporate Finance	Tel: [phone]

About dotdigital

dotdigital Group plc's (AIM: DOTD) SaaS omnichannel marketing automation platform, Engagement Cloud, makes it easy for brands to carry out sophisticated, customer data-driven digital marketing campaigns across channels including email, SMS, social, ads, mobile, web and offline.

The platform is currently used by more than 65,000 marketers across more than 110 countries in eight languages, with over 19 billion messages sent in 2019.

Founded in 1999, dotdigital is headquartered in London with offices in Amsterdam, Croydon, Manchester, Cheltenham, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, Cape Town, Minsk and Warsaw.

 

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