Board changes

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   Guy Millward, CFO and Company Secretary Meare Consulting Adrian Duffield

020 7490 0049 07990 858548

The information contained within this announcement is deemed to constitute inside information as stipulated under the UK version of Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014, as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication of this announcement this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

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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