Appointment

Parity Group PLC
10 July 2001



10 July 2001


                        PARITY GROUP PLC: BOARD CHANGE


                    Appointment of Group Finance Director


Parity Group plc ('Parity'), the IT consultancy group, today announces the
appointment of Alison Leyshon as Group Finance Director with immediate effect.


Alison, 34, has for the last two years been Company Secretary and Group
Financial Controller for Parity. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with
PriceWaterhouse, where she spent 11 years, latterly as the senior manager
responsible for the Parity audit. Alison succeeds Ray King who is leaving
Parity to become Group Finance Director of BUPA.


Commenting on the appointment, Ian Miller, Chief Executive of Parity, said: '
We are very pleased to welcome Alison to the Group Board. During her time with
Parity, Alison has shown that she has all the credentials to make an excellent
Finance Director as we take the Group forward into its next period of growth'.



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Further information

Ian Miller, Chief Executive, Parity Group plc
020 7776 0800

Michael Harrington, Communications Director, Parity Group            020 7776
0800



Harriet Keen, Financial Dynamics
           020 7831 3113