WANdisco plc announced a number of changes to the Board effective 25 July 2023 as follows: Xenia Walters will join the Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee. Chris Baker will join the Board as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee. Karl Monaghan, Non-Executive Director and current Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Remuneration Committee will step down from the Board ahead of the next Annual General Meeting in August. Yeturu Aahlad, Chief Scientist, will step down from the Board and will remain a member of the Executive Team. Peter Lees will remain as Senior Independent Director and continue to be Chair of the Nomination Committee. Ken Lever remains as Non-Executive Interim Chairman. As previously announced, now that the refinancing has been completed and the share suspension has been lifted, a process will commence to identify a permanent Non-Executive Chair of the Board. Ken Lever will engage in that process. Xenia Walters is a senior finance leader with an excellent track record of delivering operational and profit improvements within fast paced environments - both on the public markets and within private equity backed global operations. Xenia began her career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1991 to 1997) and during her career worked in various finance roles at Allied Colloids plc, Ciba Speciality Chemicals and Huntsman Chemicals. Xenia was with Regus plc from 2003 to 2011, initially as Group Financial Controller then as UK CFO. She was Group Finance Director of INTO University Partnerships and then Interim CFO of Oxford International Education Group until 2015, ultimately leading to her assuming the role of Group Chief Financial Officer of SDL plc and then Group CFO of Snowfox Group.
Chris Baker is an experienced leader in the international technology industry and currently a partner of CBCS Associates, a software advisory business. From 1983 to 1997 Chris was with Digital Equipment Company, rising to serve as UK Sales Director for Outsourcing. During the period 1997 to 2014, Chris held several senior roles within Oracle, rising to Senior Vice President and Worldwide Head of ISV/OEM/Java Sales. Chris was then Executive Director of Xchanging plc from 2014 to 2016, leading the Xuber Insurance Software business, and from 2016 to 2021 Chris was CEO of Capita Software.