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RNS Number : 6342A  Wilmington PLC  15 April 2026

15 April 2026

 

Wilmington plc

 

Board changes

 

Wilmington plc (LSE: WIL, 'Wilmington', 'the Group'), the GRC RegTech services
group, today announces the appointment of three new non-executive directors
who will join the board on April 28th 2026 - Christopher Humphrey joins as
Senior Independent Director, Dr. Erika Schraner joins as Chair of the
Remuneration Committee and Martin Rowland joins as a non-executive director.
 Christopher will also join the Remuneration and Audit Committees, Martin
will join the Audit Committee.

 

Christopher is currently Senior Independent Director of RM plc and was
Non-Executive Chair of Heywood Pension Technologies until 20 February 2026,
following its acquisition by BlackRock and, until recently (20 January 2025),
Chair of AIM-listed Eckoh plc, a position he held since 2017. He also served
as Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair at AVEVA Group plc
from 2016 to 2023, Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair at
Videndum plc from 2013 to 2022, and non-executive director at SDL plc from
2016 to 2023. Chris has had a number of leadership roles during his career,
including the position of Group Chief Executive Officer of Anite plc from 2008
to 2015.

 

Erika is currently Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration
Committee at Bytes Technology Group plc, Senior Independent Director at
HgCapital Trust plc and Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Nomination
Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee at JTC plc. During her executive
career, she spent more than 18 years working in Silicon Valley in the
technology sector. She held senior professional services roles with Ernst
& Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and an executive role at with Symantec
Corporation, a global cybersecurity company. Earlier in her executive career,
she held roles with IBM, REL Consultancy Group and Computer Science
Corporation. Through this experience, she developed deep exposure to data and
AI-enabled technologies within enterprise software. Erika earned a PhD in
management science and engineering at Stanford University. Prior to her
current roles, she served as a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit
Committee at Videndum plc (2022-2024), non-executive director at Pod Point
Group Holdings plc (2021-2025), non-executive director and Chair of the
Remuneration Committee at BluJay Solutions Ltd (2021) and non-executive
director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Aferian plc (2019-2022).

 

Martin is currently non-executive director and Executive Chair of Centaur
Media plc and a non-executive director of Fevera plc. He was previously
non-executive director and Chair of Smoove plc (2018-2023) and Chair of
Inzpire Group. Prior to this, he held investment roles at LDC, the private
equity fund, before moving into an advisory role with businesses.

 

Gordon Hurst, Chair of Wilmington, said

 

"I would like to welcome our three new non-executive directors to the board.
They bring immense experience of the listed company environment with
significant experience across international markets, commercial development,
M&A and technology."

 

The Group is making this announcement pursuant to UK Listing Rule 6.4.6R with
no further disclosures necessary under UK Listing Rule 6.4.8R(1) to (6).

 

For further information, contact:

 

 Wilmington plc                            020 7490 0049

 Guy Millward, CFO and Company Secretary

 Meare Consulting

 Adrian Duffield                           07990 858548

 

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Notes to Editors

Wilmington plc is an international Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
RegTech services group providing a range of regulatory learning &
training, regulation intelligence & data capabilities across the HSE
(Health, Safety and ESG), legal, data privacy and financial services sectors.

 

The Group has a proprietary RegTech platform with embedded AI, employing the
Model Context Protocol (MCP) to interface through an orchestration layer with
its many enterprise systems. It has developed its own Autonomous Responsive
Intelligence Assistant (ARIA) which enables it to connect or link, manage or
automate activities across multiple data repositories, software and different
AI models.

 

Wilmington employs over 1,100 people and sells to around 120 countries.
Wilmington is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

 

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