Travis Perkins plc makes the following announcement: After nearly nine years as a non-executive director, Pete Redfern, will relinquish his role as senior independent director on 1 June 2023 and subsequently step down from the company's board of directors at the conclusion of the Board's meeting on 19 September 2023. The company announced the appointment of Jez Maiden to the company's board as a non-executive and senior independent director with effect from 1 June 2023. Jez brings to the Board over forty years of business, leadership and corporate experience spanning diverse sectors, including household FMCG, management consultancy, food manufacturing, transport and chemicals.

A qualified accountant (FCMA), Jez has extensive operational finance as well as comprehensive corporate finance experience. He has held a number of Executive Director CFO positions, latterly as Group Finance Director for Croda International Plc from whose board he stepped down on 26 April 2023 before retiring from Croda on 31 May 2023. He has previously served as a Non-executive Director, Audit & Risk Committee Chair, and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees at PZ Cussons plc and as a Non-executive Director at Synthomer plc, where he was Senior Independent Director and chaired the Audit Committee.

He is currently a Non-executive Director and member of the Audit Committee at Intertek Group plc.