The Board of GCP Student Living plc announced the appointment of Marlene Wood as a non-executive Director of the company, with effect from 23 March 2015. Mrs. Wood, a chartered accountant, has a broad range of experience in both the private and public sectors and is currently a non-executive director of Scottish Funding Council. She spent twenty years with The Miller Group as finance director for Miller Developments, the property development and investment arm, and later as group accounting and treasury director.

Until recently she was also chair of the audit committee for the University of the Highlands and Islands. Mrs. Wood is not currently, and has not been in the last five years, a director of any other publicly quoted companies.