REG-Keller Group PLC: Directorate Change

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30/07/2018 07:05

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30 July 2018

Keller Group plc

Board changes

Keller Group plc (“Keller” or “the Group”), the world’s largest
geotechnical contractor, announced on 18 July 2018 that James Hind, currently
the Group’s Finance Director, is appointed President of Keller’s North
America division, remaining an Executive Director, and Michael Speakman joins
Keller as Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Director, both effective
from 20 August 2018.

Keller today announces that Chris Girling, independent Non-executive Director
and Chairman of the Audit Committee, has decided to retire from the Board at
the conclusion of the Company’s Annual General Meeting to be held in May
2019, having served on the Board for 8 years.  Chris will step down as
Chairman of the Audit Committee with effect from 1 January 2019. 

Paula Bell will join the Board as an independent Non-executive Director with
effect from 1 September 2018, and succeed Chris Girling as Audit Committee
Chairman on 1 January 2019.  

Paula has extensive international strategic, financial, commercial and M&A
experience from large listed global companies and is currently the Chief
Financial Officer of Spirent Communications plc, a leading multi-national
testing and solutions group.  From 2013 to 2016 she was Chief Financial
Officer of support services group John Menzies plc and between 2006 and 2013
was Group Finance Director of the advanced engineering group Ricardo plc.
 Previously, she held senior management positions at BAA plc, AWG plc and
Rolls-Royce plc. 

Paula was a Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the
global FTSE 250 engineering and technology group Laird PLC from 2012 until its
acquisition and delisting in July 2018, including a period as Senior
Independent Director.  Paula is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants and a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Baroness Kate Rock also joins the Board on 1 September 2018 as an independent
Non-executive Director.

From 2014 until November 2017, Kate was a Non-executive Director and Chairman
of the Remuneration Committee of Imagination Technologies plc, the former
global FTSE250 high technology company.  Kate was appointed a Life Peer in
2015. She is currently a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on the
Rural Economy. From 2017-2018 she was a member of the Select Committee on
Artificial Intelligence. She is a Non-executive Director of Real World
Technologies Limited and Senior Adviser at Instinctif Partners.

Kate has a strong international background in corporate communications and
business relations.  She was a partner at College Hill for 12 years from
1996, where she provided strategic counsel and business communications advice
to international public and private companies.  Kate was Vice-Chairman of the
Conservative Party with responsibility for business engagement until July
2016, giving her wide-ranging exposure to a large number of industries,
including large-scale infrastructure projects. Kate holds a BA in Publishing
and History.

Peter Hill, Chairman, said:

“I am delighted to welcome Paula and Kate to the Board. 

These appointments, together with that of Michael Speakman recently announced,
reflect our commitment to effective board development and these three
appointments will strengthen the Board through further diversity of skills and
experience including of wide-ranging plc corporate development and shareholder
value creation.  I look forward to working with Paula, Kate and Michael, and
with James in his new role.”

For further information, please contact:

 Keller Group plc                        www.keller.com  
 Kerry Porritt, Group Company Secretary  020 7616 7575   

Notes to editors:

Keller is the world’s largest geotechnical contractor, providing technically
advanced geotechnical solutions to the construction industry. With annual
revenue of more than £2.0bn, Keller has approximately 11,000 staff
world-wide.

Keller is the clear market leader in the US, Canada, Australia and South
Africa; it has prime positions in most established European markets and a
strong profile in many developing markets.

For more information, please go to:

http://www.keller.com/investors.aspx and http://www.keller.com.

LEI:  549300QO4MBL43UHSN10

Classification:  Inside Information (DTR Annex 1)

This announcement includes inside information as defined in Article 7 of the
Market Abuse Regulation No. 596/2014 and is disclosed in accordance with the
Company's obligations under Article 17 of those Regulations. On the
publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service ("RIS"),
this information is considered to be in the public domain.

The person responsible for making this announcement is Kerry Porritt, Group
Company Secretary



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