IMI plc (‘IMI’ or ‘the Group’), the specialist engineering group, announces the appointment of Isobel Sharp as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit Committee with effect from 1 September, 2015.
Isobel Sharp has extensive accounting and corporate governance experience. Most recently she was with Deloitte serving as the firm’s Senior Technical Partner until 2012. Prior to moving to London in 1989, she was a Director at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and an Assistant Director at KPMG, where she started her career. She has served as President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and on the UK Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Reporting Review Panel.
Lord Smith of Kelvin, Chairman of IMI commented:
“We are delighted that Isobel is joining our Board. She has a strong financial background and deep knowledge of accounting practices and corporate governance policies and procedures. In addition, having advised a number of FTSE boards during her career, she has wide ranging business experience.”
Isobel is currently a Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair at Winton Capital Group Ltd, a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at UK Green Investment Bank plc and a Non-Executive member of the Audit Advisory Board at The Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. She is also a Visiting Professor in corporate governance and auditing at Edinburgh University and a member of the University’s Business School International Advisory Board.