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11/11/2021 07:00

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RNS Number : 0182S  Hays PLC  11 November 2021

11 November 2021

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Hays plc (the Company), the leading global specialist recruitment company, is
pleased to announce that Joe Hurd will join the Board of Hays plc as an
independent Non-Executive Director on 1 December 2021, and become a member of
the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees on appointment.

Joe Hurd, a US Lawyer, has spent most of his career in consumer-facing
technology businesses, and has a broad global business experience and track
record of scaling early-stage companies and established organisations, revenue
growth and value creation at global Fortune 500 and private companies,
including Facebook, Gannett, AOL, VideoEgg and Friendster.  Joe began his
career in corporate and securities law in London with Linklaters, after which
he undertook his Federal clerkship for Judge William G. Young of the U.S.
District Court in Boston, USA.

 

Joe is Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of Katama Group LLC, which
he founded in 2004, where he advises start-ups on strategy and market
positioning.   Joe served in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2012 in a
variety of roles using his advisory skills to aid the interaction between
government and global consumer businesses particularly with a view to
increasing exports and resolving international policy issues.

 

Joe has been a non-executive director of Trustpilot Group plc since June 2021,
and was, until its acquisition by Future plc in March 2021, a non-executive
director of GoCo Group plc (GoCompare). Joe also serves as an independent
director of SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp I.

 

Andy Martin, Chairman of Hays plc, commenting on Joe's appointment to the
Board, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Joe to our Board.  His broad global experience
across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, in both executive and
non-executive positions, will be immensely valuable and the Board look forward
to Joe's input as Hays charts the course of its next phase of evolution."

The Company confirms that there is no further information about Joe Hurd
requiring disclosure under paragraph 9.6.13 (1) to (6) of the Listing Rules of
the UK Listing Authority.

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