{"id":164241,"date":"2021-02-25T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/n-brown-group-chairman-to-step-down\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:10:25","slug":"n-brown-group-chairman-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/n-brown-group-chairman-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"N Brown Group chairman to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"
N Brown Group, owners of brands including JD Williams<\/a>, Jacamo<\/a> and Simply Be<\/a>, has announced that Matt Davies will step down as Chairman<\/strong>, effective 31 March 2021.<\/p>\n Davies will be stepping down to spend more time on his other business activities<\/strong>. Over the past three years in the role he has guided the business through a successful refinancing and transfer to AIM.<\/p>\n Ron McMillan will relinquish his roles as Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair of N Brown and will succeed Davies as Chairman.<\/p>\n McMillan is currently Audit Committee Chair and Senior Independent Director of B&M European Value Retail and SCS Group, and Audit Committee Chair of Homeserve.<\/p>\n Gill Barr will succeed Ron as the Senior Independent Director.<\/p>\n On an interim basis, Vicky Mitchell will assume the Audit Committee Chair role. She currently chairs the Financial Services Board and has been a member of the Audit Committee since January 2020.<\/p>\n A recruitment process is underway for an additional independent Non-Executive Director<\/strong> who will become the permanent Audit Committee Chair.<\/p>\n Following these changes, and prior to the appointment of an additional independent Non-Executive Director, the Board will comprise of the Chair, the Group CEO and CFO and seven non-executive Directors, five of whom are considered to be independent.<\/p>\n