RNS Number : 5899G
Jet2 PLC
13 March 2024
 

13 March 2024

Jet2 plc

("the Group" or "the Company")

 

Directorate Changes

 

Jet2 plc, the Leisure Travel group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Kentleton as an independent non-executive director with effect from 18 March 2024.  Rachel will also join the Company's Audit & Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee upon appointment.  Following completion of the external audit of the Company's financial results for the year ending 31 March 2024, Rachel will take up the position as Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee.

 

Rachel was most recently Chief Financial Officer at St Modwen Properties Ltd and prior to that was Group Finance Director at PayPoint plc.  Rachel has held various senior positions in Finance, Investor Relations and Strategy including Group Director of Strategy and Implementation at easyJet plc.  She has also held several non-executive positions including her current roles as a non-executive director at Trustpilot Group plc (where she also chairs the Audit Committee) and Travelodge (where she is Audit Committee Chair designate), and her former role as Chair of the Audit Committee at Persimmon plc.

 

Mark Laurence has given notice that, following 14 years as a non-executive director, he will retire from the Board on Rachel's appointment.

 

Robin Terrell, Non-executive Chairman, commented:

 

"Firstly, on behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Mark for his service over a period in which the turnover of the business grew more than tenfold and wish him well for the future.

 

We are delighted to welcome Rachel to the Board. Rachel is an experienced director, with an impressive track record both in her executive and non-executive roles.  Her breadth of expertise will be invaluable as we continue our focus on People, Service, Profits and deliver our strategy to be the UK's Leading and Best Leisure Travel Business".

 

Please refer to Annex 1 for further disclosures relating to Rule 17 or paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

For further information, please contact:

Jet2 plc

Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer

Tel:             0113 239 7692

Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited

Nominated Adviser

Katy Birkin / Camilla Hume / George Lawson

Tel:             020 7220 0500

Buchanan

Financial PR

Richard Oldworth / Toto Berger

Tel:             020 7466 5000

 

 

ANNEX 1

 

The directorships and partnerships currently held by Rachel Elizabeth Kentleton, aged 55, and over the five years preceding the date of her appointment are as follows:

 

Current directorships/partnerships

Previous directorships/partnerships

Thame and London Limited

Trustpilot Group plc

T&L Holdco Limited

Collect+ Brand Limited

Collect+ Holdings Limited

Key Property Investments Limited

KPI Corporate Services Limited

Paypoint Collections Limited

Paypoint Network Limited

Paypoint Payment Services Limited

Paypoint plc

Paypoint Retail Solutions Limited

Paypoint Trust Managers Limited

Persimmon Public Limited Company

St. Modwen Corporate Services Limited

St. Modwen Developments Limited

St. Modwen Group Holding Company Limited

St. Modwen Homes Limited

St. Modwen Properties Limited

St. Modwen Strategic Land Limited

VSM Estates (Ashchurch) Limited

VSM (NCGM) Limited

 

 

Rachel Kentleton does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Jet2 plc.

 

There are no further disclosures to be made pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

 

 

 

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