13 Oct 2020 07:00
13 October 2020
AIM: UNG.L
Universe Group plc
("Universe", the "Company" or the "Group")
Appointment of interim CFO
Universe Group plc (AIM: UNG.L), a leading developer and supplier of retail management solutions, payment and loyalty systems, is pleased to announce the appointment with immediate effect of Carmel Warren as interim Chief Financial Officer for an initial period of six months. Daryl Paton will remain with the Company until 1 November 2020 to ensure a smooth handover. Carmel will not join the Group's board of directors.
Carmel is an experienced public company finance director, having most recently acted as CFO of D4t4 Solutions plc, the AIM quoted data analytics business, and prior to that was CFO of Celebrus Technologies Ltd, a customer intelligence software company. Carmel previously spent eleven years with ExxonMobil and qualified as an accountant with EY.
The process to appoint a permanent Chief Financial Officer is continuing and a further update will be provided in due course.
For further information:
Universe Group plc Andrew Blazye, Non-Executive Chairman Jeremy Lewis, Chief Executive Officer
finnCap Henrik Persson (Corporate Finance) Matthew Radley (Corporate Finance) Richard Chambers (ECM)
IFC Advisory Tim Metcalfe Graham Herring Florence Chandler | Tel: +44 2380 689 510
Tel: +44 20 7220 0500
Tel: +44 20 3934 6630
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About Universe Group plc:
Universe provides some of the world's leading retailers with retail management solutions, payment and loyalty systems. The Group's solutions are based on its own proprietary software and are offered out of the cloud on a software as a service model with its data centers processing over 15 billion transactions every year. For further information, please see www.universe-group.co.uk