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COMPUTERSHARE LIMITED. — Board/Management Information 2010
Sep 13, 2010
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Board/Management Information
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MARKET ANNOUNCEMENT
| Date:To:Subject: | 14 September 2010Australian Securities ExchangeBoard and management changes |
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Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU) today announces a series of board and management changes.
Tony Wales will step down as a director after the Company’s Annual General Meeting on 10[th] November 2010. Between 1990 and 2001 Mr Wales was the Company’s Finance Director and was actively involved in many of the Company’s acquisitions in a range of countries across the globe, including New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Hong Kong, the USA and Canada. More recently, he has been a non-executive director. The Board recognises Mr Wales’s enormous contribution in making Computershare what it is today and wishes him all good fortune in his retirement.
Chris Morris, formerly Executive Chairman, and Penny Maclagan, formerly Group Information Technology Director, have given up their executive responsibilities. Both remain on the Board and Mr Morris remains Chairman.
Mr Morris’s responsibilities as Head of the Company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region will be divided between:
Naz Sarkar, until now head of the UK and Ireland Investor Services business, who will be responsible for the Company’s UK, Channel Islands, Ireland and South Africa operations, as well as the European proxy solicitation operations of Georgeson; and
Steffen Herfurth, until now head of the Company’s German business, who will be responsible for the Company’s German, Russian and Scandinavian businesses, with a strong mandate to grow the group’s footprint in Continental Europe.
For further information contact:
Mr Darren Murphy Head of Treasury and Investor Relations Ph +61-3-9415-5102 [email protected]
About Computershare Limited
Computershare ( ASX: CPU ) is a global market leader in transfer agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy solicitation and stakeholder communications. We also specialise in corporate trust services, tax voucher solutions, bankruptcy administration and a range of other diversified financial and governance services.
Founded in 1978, Computershare is renowned for its expertise in data management, high volume transaction processing, payments and stakeholder engagement. Many of the world’s leading organisations use these core competencies to help maximise the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors, members and customers. Computershare is represented in all major financial markets and has over 10,000 employees worldwide.
For more information, visit www.computershare.com