Haleon plc announced that Dawn Allen will join the Board from 1 November 2024. This appointment follows Tobias Hestler will step down from the Board on 1 November 2024 and will remain within the business until the end of the year in order to ensure an orderly transition. Dawn is currently the CFO at Tate & Lyle plc.

Prior to joining Tate & Lyle, Dawn had a 25-year career at Mars Inc., where she was most recently Global CFO and VP Global Transformation. Before that, she held a number of senior financial roles in Europe and the US. Dawn also currently serves as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of ITV plc.

Haleon also separately announced the appointment of Line De Decker as Chief Human Resources Officer. With over 27 years' experience, Line is currently Chief People & Sustainability Officer at Aliaxis. Prior to that, she held roles at GSK and DuPont, having started her career at PWC.

Line will join Haleon on 1 August 2024. Dawn Allen started her career in 1991 working for the auditing firm EY based in the UK. In 1995, she joined Courtaulds plc in their Corporate Finance department before moving to Mars Inc., in 1997 initially to work as Europe Confectionary Finance Manager spending some time based in the Netherlands. She returned to the UK in 2000 taking on Sales Finance and Financial Controller roles before being appointed as Country CFO Mars Chocolate UK in 2007.

In 2013 she moved to the USA to act as Regional CFO Wrigley Americas before moving back to London in 2016 to take on the role of Global Divisional CFO, Food, Drinks and Multisales. Then, in 2020, she was appointed as Global CFO & VP, Global Transformation at Mars. In May 2022, Dawn was appointed CFO of Tate & Lyle plc. Dawn was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit & Risk Committee of ITV plc in October 2023.

Dawn was previously a Non-Executive Director of Tasty Bite Eatables Ltd. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Bath University, UK, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.