The board of Home REIT plc announced the appointment of Rod Day as Independent Non-Executive Director with effect from June 7, 2024. Rod will join the Audit Committee, Management Engagement Committee and Nomination Committee of the Company and in due course will Chair the Audit Committee. Rod has over 30 years of business experience having held senior roles in strategy and finance for a number of leading international organisations.

In an executive capacity his career highlights have included Iron Mountain Inc. (2008-2016), where he latterly acted as Global CFO leading strategic M&A and was instrumental in its conversion to a REIT; AOL Europe (2001-2008), where he acted as CFO in his final two years at the business, and at Kingfisher PLC in various strategy and business planning roles (1994-2001). Since 2017 Rod has undertaken a series of business advisory and board roles. He has been interim CFO and Board member at a number of companies including RWS, a UK listed translation company; Cobham Group, the UK's largest aerospace and defence company where he was finance lead on various divestitures; and V Ships, a world leading shipping supplies company.

He has also acted as a senior adviser to Cerberus Capital. Rod is a qualified accountant with an MBA from London Business School.