St Ives plc announced the appointment of David Bell as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 4 August 2018. David has served as CEO of two of the Advertising Marketing Services ?companies, NYSE-listed True North and Interpublic Group (IPG). He was also CEO of Bozell Worldwide, which he helped grow to a top-ten global agency. From 2006 to 2009, David was a senior advisor to Google and has been in a similar position with AOL/Oath since 2009. David was elected by his peers into the Advertising Hall of Fame in the USA in 2007 and in 2013, the Hall of Fame established the David Bell Award which is given to one inductee who has best demonstrated this level of service. David is currently an independent director of Creative Realities Inc., was an independent director at Time Inc. between 2014 and 2018 and has previously served on numerous other USA listed company boards, as well as many growth stage companies in the marketing and media technology sectors.