Mears Group plc announced that the Board announced that Nick Wharton has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee with effect from today. Nick is a Chartered Accountant with extensive finance and corporate governance experience gained, both in the UK and internationally, through Executive and Non-Executive positions in consumer companies under both public and private equity ownership. Nick has been Group Chief Financial Officer at three public companies and Audit Committee Chair at four businesses including three FTSE listed companies.

Nick was formerly CFO of Pepco NV, Superdry plc and Halfords Group plc and was also Chief Executive Officer at Dunelm plc and is currently Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair at Oriflame Holding Limited and AG Barr plc.