Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC announced that following a comprehensive search process Alison Platt will be appointed as Chair with effect from 1 January 2022. Tony Rice will step down from the Board on 31 December 2021. Alison joined the Dechra Board as a Non-Executive Director in March 2020, she has extensive board experience gained in non-executive roles at, Bupa Arabia, Cable & Wireless, Skills for Health and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alison is currently a Non-Executive Director at Tesco PLC, Spectrum Life and Chair of Legal & General Financial Advice. In September 2021, the Company announced that Tony Rice, who has been Chairman for five years, wished to retire from the Board to devote more time to family and other business and charitable activities. Dechra also announces that Denise Goode, Non-Executive Director, has informed the Board that due to other commitments she has decided to tender her resignation and step down from the Board and leaves the Company on 30 November 2021. Julian Heslop will re-assume the role of Audit Committee Chairman until a successor is appointed.