LONDON (dpa-AFX) - Engineering company Meggitt Plc (MGGT.L) announced Tuesday that Louisa Burdett will join the Company as Chief Financial Officer-designate on October 22. She will succeed Doug Webb as Chief Financial Officer and join the Board as an Executive Director on January 1, 2019.
The company noted that Webb will retire as CFO and Executive Director on December 31, 2018. Burdett will work with Webb until the end of 2018 to ensure an effective transition.
Burdett was Group Finance Director of Victrex plc from January 2014 until April 2018. Prior to that, she was Chief Financial Officer at Optos plc and the Financial Times Group and held senior finance positions at Brambles Ltd, GE Healthcare and GlaxoSmithKline plc.
She is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Electrocomponents plc, a multi-channel distributor of industrial and electronics products.
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