dotDigital Group plc Appointment of Non Executive Director (2656K)

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dotDigital Group plc

21 April 2020

21 April 2020

dotdigital Group plc

("dotdigital", "the Company" or "the Group")

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

dotdigital Group plc (AIM: DOTD), the leading 'SaaS' provider of an omnichannel marketing automation and customer engagement platform, announces that it has appointed Elizabeth (Liz) Anne Richards to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee with effect from 1 May 2020.

Liz is a highly experienced executive and non-executive director with a career spanning the Financial Services, Data and Software sectors. After an early career with Lloyds Bank, Liz qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and subsequently held senior finance roles at Silentnight Holdings plc and Skipton Building Society. From 2000 to 2015, Liz was Chief Financial Officer for Callcredit (now Transunion), a successful consumer data business, where she oversaw its growth from being a start-up in 2000 to a company with GBP150m revenues and 1,200 people by 2015.

Liz currently holds Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair positions at both LINK Scheme Ltd and Tracsis plc. Liz also holds two pro bono roles, Chair of Audit for Leeds Trinity University and Chair of Finance and Investment for Yorkshire Cancer Research. Liz will chair the Audit Committee of dotdigital.

The appointment follows the Board's previously stated intention to recruit an additional independent non-executive director, in line with the standards set by the QCA Corporate Governance Code. Following this appointment, the Board comprises three independent non-executive directors and two executive directors.

Mike O'Leary, Chairman of dotdigital, commented: "On behalf of the Board, I would like to welcome Liz to the team. Her career as a highly successful CFO and Chair of Audit, coupled with her wealth of PLC experience, is complementary to the existing skillset on the dotdigital Board and I am confident we will benefit from her stewardship."

The following information on Elizabeth Anne Richards, aged 62, is provided in accordance with rule 17 of the AIM Rules for Companies :

 
 Current Directorships        Former Directorships held 
                               in the past 5 years 
 Leeds Trinity University     Call@credit Plc 
  Link Scheme Ltd              Callcredit Consumer Limited 
  Link Scheme Holdings Ltd     Callcredit Data Solutions 
  Tracsis plc                  Limited 
  Yorkshire Cancer Research    Callcredit Information Group 
                               Limited 
                               Callcredit lead Generation 
                               Limited 
                               Callcredit Limited 
                               Callcredit Marketing Limited 
                               Callcredit Marketing Solutions 
                               Limited 
                               Callcredit Operations UAB 
                               Callcredit Public Sector 
                               Limited 
                               Coactiva Limited 
                               Credit Karma UK Limited 
                               Crown Acquisition Bidco 
                               Limited 
                               Crown Acquisition Midco 
                               2 Limited 
                               Crown Acquisition Midco 
                               Limited 
                               Data Factoring Limited 
                               Decision Metrics Limited 
                               DMWSL 617 Limited 
                               DMWSL 618 Limited 
                               DMWSL 619 Limited 
                               DMWSL 620 Limited 
                               GMAP Japan KK 
                               GMAP Limited 
                               GMAP Marketing Consulting 
                               Shanghai Company Limited 
                               Jellyfish Digital Marketing 
                               Limited (prev. Latitude 
                               Digital Marketing Limited) 
                               Legatio Technologies Limited 
                               Listknife Limited 
                               Logicbox Limited 
                               Orbitron Limited 
                               Process Benchmarking Limited 
                               Tenant ID Limited 
                               The Comparisons Limited 
                               Transunion Information Group 
                               Limited 
                               Transunion International 
                               UK Limited 
                             -------------------------------- 
 

No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to AIM Rule 17 and Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information please contact:

 
 dotdigital Group Plc                                Tel: [phone] 
  Milan Patel, CEO                                    [e-mail] 
  Paraag Amin, CFO 
 
 Alma PR (Financial PR)                              Tel: [phone] 
  Hilary Buchanan                                     [e-mail] 
  Josh Royston 
  David Ison 
 
 Canaccord Genuity (Nominated Advisor                Tel: [phone] 
  and Joint Broker) 
  Bobbie Hilliam 
  Georgina McCooke 
  Jonathan Barr, Sales 
 
 finnCap (Joint Broker)                              Tel: [phone] 
  Stuart Andrews, Corporate Finance 
  Rhys Williams, Sales 
 
 N+1 Singer (Joint Broker)                           Tel: [phone] 
  Shaun Dobson, Head of Corporate 
  Finance 
  Alex Bond, Corporate Finance 
 

About dotdigital

dotdigital Group plc's (AIM: DOTD) SaaS omnichannel marketing automation platform, Engagement Cloud, makes it easy for brands to carry out sophisticated, customer data-driven digital marketing campaigns across channels including email, SMS, social, ads, mobile, web and offline.

The platform is currently used by more than 65,000 marketers across more than 110 countries in eight languages, with over 19 billion messages sent in 2019.

Founded in 1999, dotdigital is headquartered in London with offices in Amsterdam, Croydon, Manchester, Cheltenham, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, Cape Town, Minsk and Warsaw.

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