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ROD DAY
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Rod joined RWS in January 2022 and was appointed as Chief Financial
Officer in April 2022 on an interim basis.
Rod has over thirty years of senior finance, leadership and strategy
experience primarily in the business services, online and retail sectors,
including serving as Group Chief Financial Officer of Iron Mountain Inc.,
AOL Europe and Group Strategy Manager at Kingfisher Plc. More recently,
Rod served as Interim Chief Financial Officer at Cobham Group and
V.Group, where he oversaw global finance operations and M&A activity.
LARA BORO
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Lara was appointed to the Board of Directors on 20 September 2017 and
is a Member of the Remuneration Committee. She was appointed the
Senior Independent Director after the 2021 AGM.
Currently the Group Chief Executive for the Economist Group, Lara
is focused on driving continued growth in both the core Economist
business, as well as the business-to-business offerings of the Economist
Intelligence Unit. She was previously CEO International for Ascential plc
(formerly EMAP plc) and CEO of Informa Plc's Intelligence division. Prior to
Informa, Lara held strategy, M&A and commercial development roles for
CPA Global, Pearson, MasterCard and Lloyd’s of London.
DAVID CLAYTON
Non-Executive Director
David was appointed to the Board of Directors on 4 November 2020, and
is a former Non-Executive Chairman of SDL plc.
He was Managing Director and Head of European Technology Research
at CSFB from 1997 until 2004. He then joined The Sage Group plc Board
as a Non-Executive Director in 2004 before taking up an executive role as
Director of Strategy and Corporate Development from October 2007 to
February 2012.
David is currently Chairman of Forensic and Compliance Systems and
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the charity Changing Faces. David
is also on the boards of FCS (UK) Limited, Solar Archive Ltd, Albora
Technologies Ltd and a trustee of Changing Faces and Dixons Academies
Charitable Trust Ltd.
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