Leadership and purpose
The Board’s attendance in 2021/22 Attendance at scheduled Board and Committee meetings during the year was as follows:
Board
6
Audit Committee
Nomination Committee
Remuneration Committee
See Committee report on pages 106 to 113
See Committee report on pages 100 to 105
See Committee report on pages 114 to 133
4
5
4
Scheduled meetings1
Scheduled meetings
Scheduled meetings
Scheduled meetings
98%
100%
100%
100%
Attendance7
Attendance
Attendance
Attendance
Chair3 –
Richard Mully
–
Executive Directors2 –
Toby Courtauld
–
–
Nick Sanderson
–
–
–
Dan Nicholson
–
–
–
(3/3)
5
Non-Executive Directors3 Charles Philipps (4/4)
Mark Anderson4
(3/3)
(4/4)
(3/3)
–
Wendy Becker Nick Hampton6
(3/3)
Vicky Jarman Alison Rose7 (1/1)
Emma Woods4
Board meetings attended
(1/1) Board meetings not attended
1. There were six scheduled Board meetings in 2021/22. The Board also held a strategy review session and additional meetings to consider matters of a time-sensitive nature – see Board activities on pages 87, 96 and 97. 2. Executive Directors are not members of the Audit, Nomination or Remuneration Committees. However, they are invited to attend for parts or all of certain Committee meetings where appropriate. 3. Non-Executive Directors (including the Chair), where not a member of a Committee, have a standing invitation to attend meetings of that Committee where appropriate. 4. Mark Anderson and Emma Woods were appointed to the Board and also the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees with effect from 1 September 2021 and 1 February 2022 respectively. In each case the number in (parenthesis) is the number of meetings they could have attended in the year.
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(1/1)
(1/1)
Committee meetings attended
5. Dan Nicholson was appointed to the Board with effect from 6 September 2021. The number in (parenthesis) is the number of meetings he could have attended in the year. 6. Nick Hampton will be stepping down as Chair of the Audit Committee from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM and will be succeeded in that role by Vicky Jarman. Nick Hampton will continue as a member of the Audit Committee from that time. Nick Hampton became a member of the Remuneration Committee with effect from 1 September 2021 and the number in (parenthesis) is the number of meetings he could have attended in the year. 7. Alison Rose was unable to attend the Board meeting on 8 July 2021 due to the unexpected ill-health of a family member. Alison received papers in advance and was able to provide comments to the Chair.
