(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News:
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Wizz Air Holdings PLC - Budapest-based budget airline - Hires Robert Carey as president, starting June 14 next year, to oversee operations and commercial functions. Carey has been chief commercial & strategy officer for rival carrier easyJet PLC since 2017, having started at America West Airlines followed by Delta Airlines and a 10-year stint at McKinsey & Co. Wizz also hires Michael Delehant as executive vice president and chief operations officer, reporting to Carey. Delehant joins from Vueling, the Spanish low-cost airline owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, where he has been chief strategy & network officer. He starts at Wizz on April 1.
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Cenkos Securities PLC - London-based stock broker and company advisor - Jim Durkin will retire as chief executive in March of next year, after having returned to Cenkos in 2019. That was a difficult time for UK stockbrokers, Cenkos notes, and Durkin "kept the company profitable, led the restructuring of the board and further strengthened governance". Julian Morse, an executive director and head of the Growth Companies Team, will replace Durkin as CEO. Cenkos says Morse is a founding member of the Growth Companies Team and has led it since 2016. Cenkos also promotes Jeremy Osler, co-head of Corporate Finance & general counsel, to the board as an executive director. Osler joined Cenkos in 2016.
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London Stock Exchange Group PLC - trading and clearing operator and index calculator - Proposes Martin Brand, Erin Brown and Douglas Steenland as board directors. The appointments are part of LSEG's acquisition of market data and trading platform provider Refinitiv, following which the shareholders of Refinitiv will have the right to nominate three non-executive directors for as long as they continue to hold at least 25% of LSEG. Brand and Steenland will represent Blackstone, and Brown will represent Thomson Reuters. Brand is a senior managing director and co-head of US Acquisitions for Blackstone's Private Equity Group. Steenland is a a senior adviser to the Blackstone Private Equity Group. Brown is head of Finance for the Thomson Reuters Corporates segment. LSEG expects the Refinitiv acquisition to complete in the first quarter of next year.
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Aviva PLC - London-based life and general insurer - Hires Pippa Lambert as independent non-executive director, starting January 1. Lambert was global head of Human Resources at Deutsche Bank AG and before that head of Reward at Royal Bank of Scotland.
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OptiBiotix Health PLC - York, England-based developer of compounds to treat obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes and skincare - Hires Christopher Brinsmead as director. Brinsmead was president of AstraZeneca UK & Ireland, part of AstraZeneca PLC, until 2010 and before that president of the Association of the British Pharamaceutical Industry.
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Network International Holdings PLC - Middle East-focused payment solutions provider - Hires Diane Radley and Monique Shivanandan as independent non-executive directors, starting January 1. Radley led the Transaction Services Group at PwC South Africa. She also was CEO of Old Mutual Investment Group from 2011 to 2016, having been finance director prior to that. Shivanandan is chief information officer at property and casualty insurance firm Chubb Ltd and also a non-executive director for JP Morgan Securities in the UK.
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By Tom Waite; thomaslwaite@alliancenews.com
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OptiBiotix Health (OPTI)
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Old Mutual Lim. (OMU)
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