Directorate Change

RNS Number : 1364X

Driver Group plc

17 February 2017

 

Driver Group plc

("Driver Group" or the "Company")

Board changes

Driver Group (AIM: DRV), the global professional services consultancy to construction and engineering industries, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Horgan as Non-Executive Director of the Company. John will replace David Webster who has stepped down from the Board with immediate effect.

John is a civil engineer who built Cameron Taylor Limited, an engineering consultancy specialising in the UK property sector, over 30 years before selling the business to Scott Wilson Group plc in December 2006.  He was subsequently appointed Group Managing Director for International Regions at Scott Wilson Group responsible for 4,500 staff from Australia, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and continental Europe. After URS Corporation purchased Scott Wilson Group in 2010, he became Managing Director of the whole EMEA and India business in 2012 and, following the acquisition of URS Corporation by AECOM in 2014, John became deputy CEO for EMEA and India until the end of 2015. John remains a non-executive director of AECOM EMEA.

 Gordon Wilkinson, Chief Executive Officer of Driver Group, commented:

"We welcome John to the Board at an exciting time for Driver Group. We believe his comprehensive and relevant experience in the consulting sector will strengthen the board and further enable us to deliver the recovery plan and value for shareholders.

"On behalf of the board I would also like to thank David for his years of service on the board and his contribution to the business over many years."

The following disclosures are required regarding the appointment of John Bernard Gerard Horgan, aged 66, pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

Current directorships and partnerships:	Previous directorships and partnerships (in the past 5 years):
Cameron Taylor Consulting Ltd	AECOM Corporation Holdings (UK) Limited
Cameron Taylor Group Ltd	AECOM Infrastructure & Environment UK Limited
Cameron Taylor One Ltd	AECOM International, Inc
Cameron Taylor Resources Ltd	Dames & Moore
CTG (1999) Ltd	Scott Wilson Asia-Pacific Ltd
Qube Planning Ltd	Scott Wilson International Ltd
Horgan A Priori Ltd	Thorburn Colquhoun Holdings Ltd
	URS Corporation Group Ltd
	URS Switzerland GmbH
	Woodward-Clyde Ltd

John Horgan was a director of Casenet Limited, internet start up, when it went into a creditors voluntary liquidation on 18 February 2003. The creditors voluntary liquidation was concluded and finalised on 28 June 2006. There was a deficiency of £41,649.27 to preferential creditors and a deficiency of £2,861,992.21 to unsecured creditors. The Company was dissolved on 28 September 2006.

There is no further information disclosable in respect of Mr Horgan's appointment, pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014.

Enquiries:
Driver Group plc Gordon Wilkinson (CEO) Hugh Cawley (CFO)	[phone]
N+1 Singer (Nominated Adviser & Broker) Sandy Fraser James White Alex Laughton-Scott	[phone]

 

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