Pearson PLC
28 April 2006
28 April 2006
Directorate changes
Pearson announces the appointment of Ken Hydon as chairman of its Audit
Committee and of David Arculus as chairman of its Personnel Committee.
These appointments follow the retirement of Reuben Mark and Vernon Sankey as
non-executive directors at Pearson's AGM.
Following these appointments, the membership of the committees will be:
Audit Committee: Ken Hydon (chairman), David Arculus, Patrick Cescau, Susan
Fuhrman
Personnel Committee: David Arculus (chairman), Terry Burns, Rana Talwar.
Ends
For more information:
Luke Swanson/ Simon Mays-Smith/ Deborah Lincoln: + 44 (0)20 7010 2310
Note to editors:
Ken Hydon is a non-executive director of Tesco and Reckitt Benckiser. He was
previously finance director of Vodafone and of subsidiaries of Racal
Electronics, and financial controller at 3M.
David Arculus is a non-executive director of Telefonica and was chairman of O2
from 2004 until it was acquired by Telefonica earlier this year. His previous
roles included chairman of Severn Trent, chairman of IPC Group, chief operating
officer of United Business Media, group managing director of EMAP and
non-executive director of Barclays.
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