Board Transition

RNS Number : 9369M

WANdisco Plc

02 September 2013

 



2 September 2013

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

Board Transition

Sheffield, UK - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development announces that, further to the announcement of 8 May 2013, Nicholas Parker has stepped down as CFO and from the Board of Directors (the "Board") as of 30 August 2013. Paul Harrison has now joined the Board as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") with effect from 1 September 2013.

Paul Scott Harrison, aged 49, joins the Board of WANdisco from The Sage Group plc ("Sage"), a FTSE 100 company and leading global provider of business management software to small and medium sized companies. Mr Harrison joined Sage in 1997 from Price Waterhouse to become Group Financial Controller. He joined the Board of Sage in April 2000 as CFO. In May 2007, he was appointed to the Board of Hays plc as a Non-Executive Director and, in November 2011, became its Senior Independent Non-Executive Director.

Save as disclosed above and detailed below, there are no other details to be disclosed regarding Paul Harrison's appointment as required under paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.

Current Directorships as at the date of this announcement

HAYS plc

Directorships held during the past five years

ACCPAC Middle East FZ LLC Handisoft Software Pty Ltd

Interact UK Holdings Limited

Interact Commerce Corporation

KHK Software Gesellschaft m.b.H. Micropay Pty Limited

Pastel Software (Europe) Limited

Pastel Software (Ireland) Limited

Pastel Software (UK) Limited Sage Benton Limited

Sage US Investments Limited

Sage Finance II *

Sage Jesmond Limited *

Sage (South Gosforth) *

Sage Finance Limited *

Sage Great Park Limited *

Sage Australian Investment *

Sage South African Investment *

Sage Polish Investment *

Sage Quayside *

Sage Overseas Limited

Sagesoft

Sage CRM Solutions Limited

Sage Spain Investments Company Limited

Sage Far East Investments Limited

Sage Pay Europe Limited

Sage Irish Investments One Limited

Sage Irish Investments Two Limited

Sage Technologies Limited

Sage Global Services Limited

Sage Interact Holdings (Ireland) Limited

Sage Software SB, Inc.

Sage Software Healthcare, Inc.

Sage Software Sdn Bhd

SAGE SOFTWARE INDIA PVT LTD

SAGE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD

SAGE SINGAPORE HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.

SAGE SOFTWARE ASIA PTE LTD

Sage Business Solutions Pty Limited

Sage Software Australia Pty Limited

Sage Holdings Limited Sage Whitley Limited Sage Overseas Holdings Limited Sage Online Holdings Limited Sage St Mary's Limited Sage Overseas Limited Sucursal en España Sage Software North America Sage Software Holdings, Inc. Sage Software, Inc. Sage Payment Solutions, Inc. Sandco 1191 Limited Stirling Bidco Pty Ltd Stirling Holdco Pty Ltd Sky Software Limited The Sage Group plc Sinobiz Technology Limited

Softline Australia Pty Limited

Softline Software Limited

Softline Software Holdings Limited

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Royal Grammar School

The Sage Group Quest Company Limited

Tonwomp

* These structural companies, which have never traded, are no longer required as part of the Sage Group and are therefore in a process of a company voluntary liquidation.

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc:
David Richards, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer	via FTI Consulting
Paul Harrison, Chief Financial Officer
FTI Consulting:	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Sophie McMillan / Jon Snowball / Roger Newby
Panmure Gordon & Co.	[phone]
Fred Walsh / Grishma Patel / Ben Roberts (Investment Banking)
Adam Pollock / Charles Leigh-Pemberton (Corporate Broking)

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About WANdisco plc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, high-availability software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active/active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

Product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.

 

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