Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Apr 8, 2025
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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If you are in any doubt about the action you should take, you are recommended immediately to seek your own financial advice from your stockbroker, bank manager, auditor, accountant or other independent financial adviser duly authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. If you have sold or otherwise transferred all of your shares in Spirax Group plc please pass this document and the accompanying documents (but not the personalised Form of Proxy) as soon as possible to the purchaser or transferee or to the agent through whom the sale or transfer was effected for onward transmission to the purchaser or transferee.

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The Notice convening the Annual General Meeting appears at the end of this document.
Forms of Proxy for use at the Annual General Meeting should be completed and returned to the Company's Registrar, Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99, as soon as possible and, in any event, so as to arrive not less than 48 hours, excluding non-business days, before the time of the Annual General Meeting.
CREST members who wish to appoint a proxy or proxies through the CREST electronic proxy appointment service may do so. Institutional investors may be able to appoint a proxy electronically via the Proxymity platform. Please refer to page 11 for full details.
At the Annual General Meeting, shareholders will be invited to vote on a resolution-by-resolution basis by way of a polled vote; the results will be announced instantaneously using the Equiniti 'VoteNow' polling system. Shortly after the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting, the results will also be announced on Spirax Group plc's website, www.spiraxgroup.com, and to a Regulatory Information Service.
(Registered in England No. 596337)
(Registered in England No. 596337)
Registered office: Charlton House Cirencester Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8ER
27 March 2025
This Circular accompanies the Annual Report and the audited Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2024. Part II of this Circular, on pages 4 to 6, contains the Notice of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company, which will be held at Charlton House, Cirencester Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL53 8ER, on Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 3.00 pm. Part III provides an explanation of each resolution proposed at the AGM.
There have been several changes to the Board since the last AGM. Jamie Pike retired as Chair on 31 December 2024, and I assumed the role on 1 January 2025 after joining on 1 September 2024. Louisa Burdett became Group Chief Financial Officer on 8 July 2024. Both Louisa and I will stand for election, while all remaining Directors will seek re-election at this year's AGM. On behalf of the Board and our colleagues, I thank Jamie for his leadership over the past decade.
Shareholders can submit questions in advance of the AGM. As Chair, I or another Director of the Company will endeavour to answer these questions during the meeting, and we may group similar questions together. The Company may respond thematically to avoid repetition. If you have any questions, please send them to the Investor Relations team at investors@ spiraxgroup.com by 3.00 pm on Monday 12 May 2025, along with your Shareholder Reference Number (SRN), which is on your share certificate or Form of Proxy.
Shareholders who wish to attend the meeting in person should pre-register by emailing [email protected] no later than 3.00 pm on Monday 12 May 2025.
Voting on resolutions at the AGM is crucial. To ensure all shareholders' votes count, not just those of shareholders attending, we will conduct voting by poll rather than a show of hands. A poll is more inclusive as it enables all shareholders to vote, and electronic voting ensures efficient results. Shareholders attending the AGM can still ask questions, consider points raised, and vote on each resolution.
We will announce the results of the voting on the proposed resolutions to the London Stock Exchange as soon as possible after the meeting concludes.
Whether or not you plan to attend the meeting in person, the Company recommends that all shareholders (i) appoint the Chair of the meeting as their proxy and (ii) submit their votes (via proxy) as early as possible, and no later than 3.00 pm on Monday 12 May 2025, to ensure their votes are counted. For more information, see the Form of Proxy section in the notes to the Notice of Annual General Meeting. Completing and returning a Form of Proxy will not prevent a shareholder from attending and voting in person at the AGM if they wish.
Your Directors believe that all the proposals to be considered at the AGM will promote the success of the Company and are in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. They recommend that shareholders vote in favour of the resolutions, as the Directors intend to do with their own beneficial holdings totalling 84,669 shares, except for any resolution in which the relevant Director has an interest.
Yours faithfully,
Tim Cobbold Chair
Notice is hereby given that the sixty-seventh Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Spirax Group plc will be held at Charlton House, Cirencester Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL53 8ER, on Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 3.00 pm to consider and, if thought fit, to pass Resolutions 1 to 19 inclusive as ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 20 to 23 as special resolutions.
as defined in sections 363 to 365 of the Act, provided that the aggregate amount of any such donations and expenditure shall not exceed £100,000. Amounts in different currencies will be converted to pounds sterling at such rate as the directors of the Company may in their absolute discretion determine to be appropriate. This authority is valid until the next annual general meeting of the Company or 30 June 2026, whichever is earlier.
This authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2026.
The Company may, before this authority expires, make an offer or agreement which would or might require shares to be allotted or Rights to be granted after it expires and the Directors may allot shares or grant Rights in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if this authority had not expired.
For the purposes of this Resolution 19, 'pre-emptive offer' means an offer to:
to subscribe for further securities subject to the Directors imposing any limits or restrictions or make any other exclusions or arrangements which they consider necessary or appropriate to deal with treasury shares, fractional entitlements, record dates, legal, regulatory or practical problems in, or under the laws of, any territory or any other matter.
The authority granted by this Resolution will expire at the conclusion of the Company's next AGM after the passing of this Resolution or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2026, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (or treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (or sell treasury shares) in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
The authority granted by this Resolution will expire at the conclusion of the Company's next AGM after this Resolution is passed or, if earlier, at the close of business on 30 June 2026, save that the Company may, before such expiry, make offers or agreements which would or might require equity securities to be allotted (or treasury shares to be sold) after the authority expires and the Directors may allot equity securities (or sell treasury shares) in pursuance of any such offer or agreement as if the authority had not expired.
this authority shall expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company after the passing of this Resolution, or at close of business on 30 June 2026, whichever is earlier, unless such authority is varied, revoked or renewed prior to such time;
By order of the Board
Group General Counsel and Company Secretary 27 March 2025
Registered office: Charlton House Cirencester Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 8ER Registered in England No. 596337
The receipt and consideration of the Company's Annual Report and Accounts 2024.
In accordance with section 439 of the Companies Act 2006 (the Act), the Board is asking for shareholder approval of the Remuneration Report, which can be found on pages 129 to 147 of the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024. This resolution is, as in previous years, put to an advisory shareholder vote and the Director's entitlement to receive remuneration is not conditional on it.
As a result of the benchmarked increases in the level of fee for the Chair and other non-executive directors as disclosed in the Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2023 (see "Operation of Policy for 2024"), and the increase in the number of non-executive directors on the Board (including the Chair) from seven to eight, the fees paid to the Chair and other non-executive directors during the financial year ended 31 December 2024 were inadvertently in excess of the aggregate limit of £750,000 specified in Article 59 of the Company's Articles of Association ("Articles"). The aggregate fees paid during 2024 (inclusive of fees paid in connection with chairing a Board committee) were £955,333, as further detailed on page 131 of the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The maximum amount of fees provided for in Article 59 of the Articles may be increased by ordinary resolution of shareholders and Resolution 3 is proposed to approve an increase in the maximum fees to £1,200,000 and to ratify and approve payments to the Chair and the other non-executive directors during 2024 by way of fees for their services in excess of the amount specified in Article 59. The votes of the directors concerned, and of any persons connected to them, will be disregarded in determining whether Resolution 3 is passed.
The Directors propose a final dividend of 117.5 pence per ordinary share payable on 23 May 2025 to all shareholders on the register of members at 5.00 pm on 25 April 2025.
The Act requires that an auditor be appointed at each general meeting at which accounts are laid, to hold office until the next such meeting. This Resolution seeks shareholder approval for the reappointment of Deloitte LLP as the Company's auditor. Deloitte LLP has expressed its willingness to continue in office as auditor. The Directors, on the recommendation of the Audit Committee which has confirmed that such recommendation is free from influence by a third party and that no restrictive contractual terms have been imposed on the Company is recommending the reappointment of Deloitte LLP.
The proposal to authorise the Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of Deloitte LLP.
Resolutions 7 to 16 deal with the election and re-election of Directors in accordance with the requirements of the Company's Articles of Association and the UK Corporate Governance Code (the Code).
The Code provides for all Directors to be subject to annual election by their shareholders. Accordingly, in keeping with the Board's aim of following best corporate governance practice, all members of the Board, are standing for election or re-election (as the case may be). For information, Tim Cobbold's appointment as a Non-Executive Director and Chair designate in September 2024 and Louisa Burdett's appointment as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director in July 2024 both took place after the 2024 annual general meeting. They will therefore stand for election at the AGM.
Following a formal performance evaluation, each Director's performance continues to be effective and each Director demonstrates commitment to the role. Details of each of the Directors seeking election and re-election (as the case may be) are set out in the appendix to this notice including the reasons why the Company considers each Director's contribution to be important for the long-term success of the Company, in accordance with Code provision 18.
Resolution 17 is sought on a precautionary basis and concerns Part 14 of the Act, which provides that political donations made by a company to political parties, other political organisations and independent election candidates or political expenditure incurred by a company must be authorised in advance by shareholders.
It is the Spirax Group's policy not to make donations to, or incur expenditure on behalf of, political parties, other political organisations and independent election candidates and the Board has no intention of changing this policy. However, as a result of the wide definitions in the Act, normal expenditure (such as expenditure on organisations concerned with matters of public policy, law reform, special interest groups and representation of the business community) and business activities (such as communicating with the Government and political parties at local, national and European level) might be construed as political expenditure or as a donation to a political party or other political organisation and fall within the restrictions of the Act.
This resolution does not purport to authorise any particular donation or expenditure but is proposed to avoid inadvertently contravening the Act. If approved, Resolution 17 will allow the Company and its subsidiaries to make donations and to incur political expenditure (as defined by the Act) up to an aggregate limit of £100,000 and shall not exceed £50,000 for each subsidiary in the period to which this resolution has effect. Any political donation made or political expenditure incurred will be disclosed in the Company's Annual Report next year, as required by the Act. The Directors will seek to renew this authority annually.
At the annual general meeting held in 2024, shareholders authorised the Directors to offer a scrip alternative to any dividend declared or paid in the period up to the date of the AGM to be held in 2029 or, if earlier, 15 May 2029. A scrip alternative will not be offered for the financial year ended 31 December 2024 but the Directors consider it prudent to maintain the facility to provide this alternative for shareholders should circumstances alter so as to make a scrip alternative appropriate. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, Resolution 18 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution to renew this authority for three years ending on the date of the AGM to be held in 2028 or, if earlier, on 30 June 2028, although it is the Directors' intention to renew this authority annually.
Resolution 19 renews the Directors' authority to allot new shares.
The Investment Association's Share Capital Management Guidelines allow this authority to apply up to a nominal amount of one-third of the issued ordinary share capital with a further one-third for a fully pre-emptive offer. Therefore, the Board considers it appropriate for the Directors to be granted authority to allot shares in accordance with section 551 of the Act up to a nominal amount of £6,554,718, representing 33% of the issued ordinary share capital as at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to publication of this notice). This authority will expire on the date of the next annual general meeting or on 30 June 2026, whichever is the earlier. The Directors have no present intention of allotting new shares, other than for allotments in the normal course of business, e.g. the Employee Share Ownership Plan ("ESOP") or the Performance Share Plan ("PSP"), but it is sought to ensure the Directors maintain flexibility with respect to capital management which may assist them to take advantage of business opportunities and market developments should they arise.
If the Directors wish to allot new shares and other equity securities, or sell treasury shares, for cash (other than in connection with an employee share scheme), such shares or securities must be offered first to existing shareholders pro rata. There may be occasions, however, when the Directors need the flexibility to allot shares or other equity securities for cash, or sell treasury shares, without a pre-emptive offer, which can be done if the shareholders have first waived their pre-emption rights by special resolution, which is the purpose of Resolution 20. Such authority will only be used in connection with a pre-emptive offer, or otherwise, up to an aggregate nominal amount of £1,986,278, being approximately 10 per cent of the total issued ordinary share capital of the Company as at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this notice). As at 26 March 2025, the Company held no treasury shares.
In line with the Pre-Emption Group Statement of Principles and the template resolutions published by the Pre-Emption Group, Resolution 21 seeks to authorise the Directors to allot shares and other equity securities pursuant to the authority given by Resolution 19, or sell treasury shares, for cash up to a further nominal amount of £1,986,278, being approximately 10 per cent of the total issued ordinary share capital of the Company as at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this notice), only in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment which is announced contemporaneously with the allotment, or which has taken place in the preceding 12-month period and is disclosed in the announcement of the issue and in respect of which sufficient information regarding the effect of the investment on the Company, the assets that are the subject of the investment and (where appropriate) the profits attributable to those assets is made available to shareholders to enable them to reach an assessment of the potential return on the investment.
In the case of both Resolutions 20 and 21, the Directors are also authorised to issue up to an additional 2 per cent of the total issued share capital to be used only for the purposes of making a follow-on offer of a kind contemplated by paragraph 3 of section 2B of the Pre-Emption Group Statement of Principles.
If the authority given in Resolution 21 is used, the Company will publish details of the same in its next Annual Report.
If these Resolutions are passed, the authorities will expire at the end of the next annual general meeting or on 30 June 2026, whichever is the earlier.
The Board considers the authorities in Resolutions 20 and 21 to be appropriate in order to allow the Company flexibility to raise further equity to pursue business opportunities as and when they arise, or to conduct a rights issue or other pre-emptive offer without the need to comply with the strict requirements of the statutory pre-emption provisions where such compliance would be unduly burdensome (for example, due to overseas securities laws).
In the event of the Company issuing shares non-pre-emptively for cash pursuant to the general disapplication of pre-emption rights authorities described above, the Board intends to follow best practice as regards to such issues and adhere to the Pre-Emption Group Statement of Principles and paragraph 3 of section 2B of the Pre-Emption Group Statement of Principles (as applicable).
Resolution 22 renews the Directors' authority to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares as permitted by the Act.
The maximum aggregate number of ordinary shares that may be purchased would be 7,377,604, which represents approximately 10% of the Company's existing ordinary share capital as at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to publication of this notice). The resolution specifies the minimum and maximum prices at which the ordinary shares may be bought under this authority. The resolution is in accordance with best practice in the UK. This renewed authority will expire on the date of the next annual general meeting or on 30th June 2026, whichever is the earlier.
The Directors have no present intention of exercising the authority granted by this resolution, but the authority provides the flexibility to allow them to do so in the future. The Company will only exercise the authority granted by the proposed resolution where the Directors reasonably believe that repurchasing its shares will increase earnings per share of the ordinary shares in issue after the purchase and, accordingly, is in the best interests of shareholders generally.
The number of options and PSP awards to subscribe for equity shares that are outstanding at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this notice) is 277,494, being 0.38% of the total issued ordinary share capital at that date. The Company has no warrants to subscribe for equity shares that are outstanding on 26 March 2025.
The Act permits certain listed companies to hold shares in treasury, as an alternative to cancelling them, following a purchase of own shares by the company concerned. No dividends are paid on any such shares held in treasury nor do they have voting rights.
Any shares purchased by the Company will either be cancelled and the number of shares reduced accordingly or, if the Directors think fit, they may be held as treasury shares. As at 26 March 2025 (being the latest practicable date prior to the publication of this notice), the Company held no ordinary shares in treasury. This authority will expire on the date of the next annual general meeting or on 30 June 2026, whichever is the earlier.
Under the Act, the notice period required for all general meetings of the Company is 21 clear days, unless shareholders approve a shorter notice period for general meetings that are not annual general meetings, which cannot, however, be less than 14 clear days. Annual general meetings will continue to be held on at least 21 clear days' notice. The shorter notice period for which shareholder approval is sought would not be used as a matter of routine for such general meetings, but only where the flexibility is merited by the business of the meeting and is thought to be to the advantage of shareholders as a whole. In the event that a general meeting is called on less than 21 clear days' notice, the Company will offer shareholders a facility to vote by electronic means in order to be permitted to call meetings on shorter notice. Shareholder approval will be effective until the Company's next annual general meeting, when it is intended that a similar resolution will be proposed.
The Company may not require the shareholders requesting such website publication to pay its expenses in complying with sections 527 and 528 of the Act and it must forward the statement to the Company's auditor no later than the time when it makes the statement available on the website. The business which may be dealt with at the AGM includes any statement that the Company has been required under section 527 of the Act to publish on its website.
If you do not indicate on the Form of Proxy how your proxy should vote, they can exercise their discretion as to whether, and if so how, he/she votes on each resolution, as he/she will do in respect of any other business which may properly come before the AGM.
The vote of the senior joint shareholder will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint shareholders. For this purpose, seniority will be determined by the order in which the names of the shareholders appear in the register of members in respect of the joint shareholding. If the Form of Proxy is signed by someone else on behalf of the registered holder(s), the appropriate power of attorney or other authority (or a duly certified copy of such power or authority) under which it is executed must be returned with the Form of Proxy.
CREST members and, where applicable, their CREST sponsor or voting service provider(s) are referred, in particular, to those sections of the CREST Manual concerning practical limitations of the CREST system and timings.
Nationality: British
Committees: Nomination
September 2024. Board Chair with effect from 1 January 2025
Senior management, engineering, industrial, operational delivery, international business, business transformation and system deployment, corporate finance, M&A, strategy
Non-Executive Director and Chair of TI Fluid Systems plc, Non-Executive Director of Rotork plc until 31 December 2024
Tim Cobbold has extensive experience in leading large, complex international listed businesses having previously been the Chief Executive Officer of Chloride Group plc, De La Rue plc and, most recently, UBM plc. Prior to this he held senior management positions at Smiths Group/TI Group where he worked for 18 years. Tim is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
Tim's broad business experience with global industrial companies, as well as his previous experience as CEO of three FTSE listed businesses with a strong track record of value creation through growth and operational delivery, positions him well to lead and guide Spirax Group through the next chapter of our development and evolution.
Louisa Burdett, BSc, ICAEW Chief Financial Officer
Nationality: British
Committees: Risk Management
Appointed to the Board: July 2024
Finance, finance transformation, M&A, risk management, international business, senior management, manufacturing
Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of RS Group plc
Louisa Burdett is a Chartered Accountant and has held senior financial positions in industrial, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and publishing companies. Before joining the Group in 2024, she was Chief Financial Officer of Croda International Plc. Prior to that she was the CFO of Meggitt plc and Victrex plc.
Louisa is a highly experienced CFO with an exceptional track record in leading finance for UK listed companies, together with related Non-Executive and sector experience that will be invaluable to the Board and Executive Leadership team as we progress on our journey towards creating sustainable value for all our stakeholders.
Nimesh Patel, BSc Group Chief Executive Officer
Nationality: British
Committees: Risk Management (Chair)
Appointed to the Board: September 2020
International, senior management, M&A, finance and accounting, industrial, pensions, tax and treasury
Co-Chair of the FTSE Women Leaders' Review (formerly the Hampton-Alexander Review); Trustee of Barts Charity
Before joining the Group in 2020, Nimesh Patel was Chief Financial Officer of De Beers. Prior to that he was Group Head of Corporate Finance at Anglo American plc, leading a team based in London and Johannesburg. Previously, he spent 14 years in investment banking at both JP Morgan and as a Managing Director at UBS. In August 2023, following a rigorous selection process, he was appointed to become the next Group Chief Executive Officer and took up the position on 16 January 2024.
During his tenure as a member of the Board, Nimesh has played a significant role in shaping our strategy, working with colleagues to enhance our unique culture and business model to fulfil our Purpose. He has a proven ability to engage at all levels throughout the organisation and with external stakeholders. His strategic approach and deep understanding of our Businesses, together with his global and financial experience, all underpin his leadership of our Group.
Angela Archon, MSc, BSc Independent Non-Executive Director
Nationality: American
Committees: Colleague Engagement, Nomination, Remuneration
Appointed to the Board: December 2020
Areas of experience: Engineering, operational, strategy, international business, M&A, manufacturing, senior management, digital/AI
Non-Executive Director of DT Midstream Inc. and CommonSpirit Health
Angela Archon held senior executive roles at IBM, including VP of Transformation and COO of Watson Health. She served as Board Liaison for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering for eight years. She is a member of Tau Beta Pi and has a Professional Engineer's licence. She was a Non-Executive Director at Switch Inc. until December 2022.
Angela combines executive experience with international non-executive expertise. This assists the Group with a world-wide engineering perspective. Her expertise in Technology / AI helps provide the Board oversight of our Group Digital Strategy.
Committees: Colleague Engagement
Appointed to the Board: August 2023
Strategy, sustainability, operational, international business, R&D, international relations
Constance Baroudel is the Sector Chief Executive, Environmental & Analysis and Chief Sustainability Officer at Halma plc. She has held executive roles at Halma, First Group, De La Rue and Strategic Decisions Group International, bringing over 20 years of experience in global organisations.
She has an MSc in International Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics, an MSc in Corporate Finance & Strategy and a BA in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris. She has also served as a Non-Executive Director for Kier Group and Synergy Health plc.
Constance's proven executive leadership ability, international skills and sustainability expertise make a significant contribution to the growth and development of the Group.
Independent Non-Executive Director & Senior Independent Director
Committees: Audit, Nomination, Remuneration
Appointed to the Board: March 2021. Appointed Senior Independent Director in August 2021
International business, investment and finance
Senior Independent Director of Whitbread plc and Governor at the Wellcome Trust
Until December 2022, Richard Gillingwater was Chair of Janus Henderson Group plc. He has also held a range of executive positions within global investment banks including Kleinwort Benson, Credit Suisse and Barclays de Zoete Wedd. He holds an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development, a BA Law from Oxford University and is a qualified solicitor.
Richard's experience with the investment and shareholder communities has strengthened the Group's dialogue with its investors. His leadership of other listed boards ensures the Group can benchmark its performance across general trading and ESG matters.
Nationality: British
International business, operational, industrial, sales and marketing, engineering, senior management, M&A, manufacturing
Chief Executive Officer of TT Electronics
Peter France served as Chief Executive Officer of Asco Group from 2018 to 2023. Prior to this, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Rotork plc from 2008 to 2017, having joined the business in 1989. During his tenure at Rotork plc, he gained extensive experience in various key roles, including Chief Operating Officer and Director of Rotork South East Asia, located in Singapore. He is a Chartered Director with the Institute of Directors.
Peter's engineering, executive leadership and international skills ensure the Group receives strong advice when engaging in new lines of business. His leadership skills greatly assist with colleague engagement.
Audit, Colleague Engagement (Chair), Nomination
Finance, people, international business, M&A
External appointments: None
Caroline Johnstone has 40 years' experience working with large global organisations during periods of change, including turnaround, culture change, delivering value from mergers & acquisitions and cost optimisation. She was a Partner in
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and sat on the UK Assurance Board with oversight of all people matters. Caroline is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Her recent roles include as Independent Chair of Synthomer plc, a global speciality chemicals business (until December 2024) and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of Shepherd Group Ltd, with businesses including Portakabin (until June 2024). She has also had board positions in the higher education, government and third sectors.
Caroline brings significant governance experience from other roles, which contributes to ensuring robust governance as well as benchmarking performance. Her finance, culture change and people, M&A and cost optimisation experience bring rigorous challenge and support to the group as it navigates a challenging period as well as integrating and improving acquisitions.
Jane Kingston, BA Independent Non-Executive Director
Remuneration Committee (Chair), Colleague Engagement, Nomination
Appointed to the Board: September 2016
Engineering, international business, senior management, operational, people, remuneration
Jane Kingston served as Group Human Resources Director for Compass Group PLC from 2006 until her retirement in December 2015. Before this, she was Group Human Resources Director for BPB plc. She has held roles in various sectors, including positions with Blue Circle Industries plc, Enodis plc and Coats Viyella plc, and possesses significant international experience.
Jane's remuneration expertise has assisted in steering the Group through the increasingly complicated area of senior executive compensation ensuring a respectful approach to shareholders and the right level of incentives to retain and motivate executives. She also assists the Group in ensuring that whilst we grow, we retain our successful culture.
Jane will step down on 30 September after a transition period with Maria Antoniou who will join the board and take over the role of Remuneration Committee chair on 1 June 2025.
Kevin Thompson, Bsc, FCA Independent Non-Executive Director
Audit (Chair), Nomination, Remuneration
Engineering, international business, senior management, M&A, strategy, finance, pensions, tax and treasury
Deputy Chair and Trustee of the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Kevin Thompson was Group Finance Director of Halma plc from 1998 to 2018, having joined Halma as Group Financial Controller in 1987. Kevin qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Kevin ensures a robust and rigorous approach to financial and governance matters. This approach is combined with a supportive approach to both organic growth and acquisitions ensuring the Group has a firm basis on which to progress in the future.

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