Trinity Mirror is pleased to announce that Kathleen O'Donovan
will join the Board as a non-executive director on 11th May 2007 following the Group's Annual General
Meeting.
Kathleen, 49, is the senior independent director and deputy
chairman of Great Portland Estates plc and is a non-executive director at
Prudential plc and Arm Holdings plc.
Previously she was on the Court of the Bank of England and held
non-executive directorships at O2 plc and EMI plc.
Between 1998 and 2002 she was CFO of Invensys plc having
previously been the Finance Director of its legacy company BTR plc which merged
with Siebe plc to create Invensys.
No further details required under FSA Listing Rule 9.6.13 remain
to be disclosed in relation to Kathleen O'Donovan.
Sir Ian Gibson, Chairman of Trinity Mirror plc, commented:
"We are delighted that Kathleen is joining the Trinity Mirror
Board. She has an impeccable reputation for professionalism and integrity and
with her eye for detail comes a sense of commercial reality from years of
experience at the top of a large international business."
Three non-executive directors are to retire from the Board at
the AGM on 10th May
2007 :
Peter Birch who is Senior Independent Director and Chairman of
the Audit Committee was appointed in March 1998, has served three full terms and
has thus reached the 9 years of service considered the maximum under corporate
governance best practice principles. Peter was Chairman of Trinity plc at the
time of merger with Mirror Group plc in 1999.
Sir Angus Grossart, who is also Chairman of Scottish Daily
Record and Sunday Mail Ltd, was appointed a non-executive director on merger in
1999 having been first appointed a director of Mirror Group plc in January 1998
and has thus also served in aggregate for 9 years. Angus is 70 in April and has
decided to retire from the Board.
David Ross joined the Board in 2004 and has served his full
initial three year term.
Following the retirement of Peter Birch, Gary Hoffman, Chairman
of the Remuneration Committee, will be additionally appointed Senior Independent
Director. Gary
Kathleen O'Donovan will be appointed chairman of the Audit
Committee.
