(Reuters) - British postal services firm Royal Mail's Chief Executive Simon Thompson will step down from the role, parent International Distributions Services Plc (IDS) said on Friday.
The company said its board was in "advanced stages" of appointing a new chief, and that Thompson has agreed to remain with the business until October end, but did not give other details.
Thompson, 56, has been CEO of the postal company since 2021.
He joined the IDS board as a non-executive director in late 2017, after various stints in HSBC, Honda, Apple, Motorola and Ocado Group, the British online supermarket group.
(Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee)
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Mr. Simon R. Thompson is a Chairman at 3i Group Plc, a Chairman at Rio Tinto Ltd. and a Chairman at Rio Tinto Plc. Mr. Thompson was previously employed as a Chairman by Tullow Oil Plc, a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director by Amec Foster Wheeler Plc, an Independent Non-Executive Director by Newmont Corp., an Independent Director by Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd., an Independent Non-Executive Director by Sandvik AB, a Non-Executive Director by United Co. RUSAL Ltd., a Non-Executive Director by AngloGold Ashanti Ltd., an Executive Director by Anglo American Plc, a Head-Finance Project by Minorco SA, a Chairman by Tarmac Group Ltd., and a Chairman by Tarmac Trading Ltd. He received his graduate degree from the University College Oxford.
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