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(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced on Monday and not separately reported by Alliance News:
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Keywords Studios PLC - London-based technical services provider to global video games industry - Chief Executive Officer Andrew Day takes a temporary leave of absence for health reasons, effective immediately. Provides no further details but says Day is expected to return after a recovery period and will remain a board member. Chief Financial Officer Jon Hauck and Chief Operating Officer Sonia Sedler will be joint interim CEOs. Still expects to release 2020 results on March 24. These remain in line with the trading update issued in January. At that time, Keywords said it expected revenue and adjusted profit before tax to be EUR373 million and EUR55 million, marginally ahead of the guidance issued in mid-November of about EUR367 million and about EUR52 million. In 2019, Keywords generated revenue of EUR326.5 million and adjusted profit of EUR40.9 million.
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Bank of Georgia Group PLC - Notes that the National Bank of Georgia recently published an update to the code of corporate governance for commercial banks in the country. This requires the chair of a bank's supervisory board to be independent of the chair of the risk committee. As a result, Neil Janin will step down as chair of the board of directors of Bank of Georgia Group PLC and of the supervisory board of JSC Bank of Georgia, while Tamaz Georgadze will step down as chair of the risk committees of both boards, both before the end of December this year. However, Janin and Georgadze will remain members of both boards. Bank of Georgia said it is considering successors for the two chair positions. Additionally says Mariam Megvinetukhutsesi has joined the board as independent non-executive director. Megvinetukhutsesi was deputy chief executive officer of TBC Bank until 2014. Subsequently, she served as head of Georgia's Investors Council Secretariat until 2019.
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AIB Group PLC - Dublin-based bank - Hires Andy Maguire as an independent non-executive director, effective immediately. Maguire was chief operating officer for London-based lender HSBC Holdings PLC from 2014 to 2020. Prior to HSBC, he was managing partner of the London office of Boston Consulting Group.
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Airea PLC - West Yorkshire-based floor coverings manufacturer - Paul Stevenson resigns as financial director "to pursue another opportunity" and will leave Airea on June 11. Financial Controller Nick Taylor to run the finance department until a replacement for Stevenson is found.
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Wizz Air Holdings PLC - Budapest-based central and eastern Europe-focused budget airline - Peter Agnefjall resigns as non-executive director, effective April 13, having served since July 2018.
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International Biotechnology Trust PLC - invests in quoted and unquoted biotechnology companies - Carl Harald Janson steps down as lead investment manager after seven years. Ailsa Craig and Marek Poszepczynski to be joint lead investment managers, and Janson to remain as senior advisor to SB Health Investors, the trust's manager.
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Surface Transforms PLC - Liverpool-based maker of carbonâ€ceramic automotive brake discs - Former chair Kevin D'Silva to retire as non-executive director once the company publishes its annual results, which it says on Monday it expects to be in early April. D'Silva joined Surface Transforms in 2003, just after it listed on AIM in 2002. He was chair until 2011 and has been a non-executive director since. "The company and the board want to thank Kevin for his sterling service to the company over 17 years starting as a very small, pre-sales company listed on AIM. Quite simply the Company would not have continued to exist without his contribution over these years," says Chair David Bundred.
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Bluejay Mining PLC - projects in Greenland and Finland, led by Dundas ilmenite project in Greenland - Hires Johannus Egholm Hansen as non-executive director. Hansen is a Danish national with over 30 years' experience in large construction projects, airport construction and operations, engineering, banking and equipment supply. Significantly, he was involved in the planning and development of airports in Greenland, Bluejay says.
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Water Intelligence PLC - Palm Springs, California-based environmental services and technology company - Hires Dan Ewell as non-executive director, subject to due diligence. Ewell is a senior advisor at Morgan Stanley, where he has worked as an investment banker for over 33 years, Water Intelligence says. Ewell has agreed to invest USD200,000, buying 22,659 shares at 635 pence per share. Water Intelligence will issue 2,121 new shares, with the rest coming from treasury.
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By Tom Waite; thomaslwaite@alliancenews.com
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