UK: SIG has appointed Andrew Allner as its chairman with effect from 1 November 2017. He will also take the role as a non-executive director. He succeeds Leslie Van De Walle who first announced his intention to retire in March 2017. Van De Walle will now step down as chairman and retire as a director on 31 October 2017.
Allner is currently the chairman of Marshalls, the Go-Ahead Group and Fox Marble Holdings, and a non-executive director at Northgate. Marshalls has announced that it will now start the process to recruit a successor to Allner and
that he will resign from the Marshall's board, once the new chairman is established in position. He was previously Non-Executive Director of AZ Electronic Materials, until 2014, and CSR, until 2013. Previous executive roles include Group Finance Director of RHM and chief executive officer (CEO) of Enodis. He also held senior executive positions with Dalgety, Amersham International and Guinness. Allner is a chartered accountant, former partner of Price Waterhouse and graduate of the University of Oxford.
