Directorate Changes

Jet2 PLC

13 March 2024

 

13 March 2024

Jet2 plc

("the Group" or "the Company")

Directorate Changes

Jet2 plc, the Leisure Travel group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Kentleton as an independent non-executive director with effect from 18 March 2024.  Rachel will also join the Company's Audit & Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee upon appointment.  Following completion of the external audit of the Company's financial results for the year ending 31 March 2024, Rachel will take up the position as Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee.

Rachel was most recently Chief Financial Officer at St Modwen Properties Ltd and prior to that was Group Finance Director at PayPoint plc.  Rachel has held various senior positions in Finance, Investor Relations and Strategy including Group Director of Strategy and Implementation at easyJet plc.  She has also held several non-executive positions including her current roles as a non-executive director at Trustpilot Group plc (where she also chairs the Audit Committee) and Travelodge (where she is Audit Committee Chair designate), and her former role as Chair of the Audit Committee at Persimmon plc.

Mark Laurence has given notice that, following 14 years as a non-executive director, he will retire from the Board on Rachel's appointment.

Robin Terrell, Non-executive Chairman, commented:

"Firstly, on behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Mark for his service over a period in which the turnover of the business grew more than tenfold and wish him well for the future.

We are delighted to welcome Rachel to the Board. Rachel is an experienced director, with an impressive track record both in her executive and non-executive roles.  Her breadth of expertise will be invaluable as we continue our focus on People, Service, Profits and deliver our strategy to be the UK's Leading and Best Leisure Travel Business".

Please refer to Annex 1 for further disclosures relating to Rule 17 or paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information, please contact:

Jet2 plc Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer Tel:             0113 239 7692 Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer Cavendish Capital Markets Limited Nominated Adviser Katy Birkin / Camilla Hume / George Lawson Tel:             020 7220 0500 Buchanan Financial PR Richard Oldworth / Toto Berger Tel:             020 7466 5000

ANNEX 1

The directorships and partnerships currently held by Rachel Elizabeth Kentleton, aged 55, and over the five years preceding the date of her appointment are as follows:

Current directorships/partnerships	Previous directorships/partnerships
Thame and London Limited Trustpilot Group plc T&L Holdco Limited	Collect+ Brand Limited Collect+ Holdings Limited Key Property Investments Limited KPI Corporate Services Limited Paypoint Collections Limited Paypoint Network Limited Paypoint Payment Services Limited Paypoint plc Paypoint Retail Solutions Limited Paypoint Trust Managers Limited Persimmon Public Limited Company St. Modwen Corporate Services Limited St. Modwen Developments Limited St. Modwen Group Holding Company Limited St. Modwen Homes Limited St. Modwen Properties Limited St. Modwen Strategic Land Limited VSM Estates (Ashchurch) Limited VSM (NCGM) Limited

Rachel Kentleton does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Jet2 plc.

There are no further disclosures to be made pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

 

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