# Diploma PLC appoints Jennifer Ward to the Board

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/diploma-plc-appoints-jennifer-ward-to-the-board/4121120758
- Published: 2023-05-30T07:22:00+01:00
- Author: Anthony Fox

**Diploma PLC** (LON:DPLM), the international group supplying specialised technical
products and services, has announced that, following a comprehensive externally-
facilitated process, it has appointed Jennifer Ward as an independent non-executive
director and Remuneration Committee chair-designate.

Jennifer is currently an Executive Director and Chief Talent, Culture and Communications
Executive at [Halma Plc](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/ftse-company/halma-plc/hlma.l).
Prior to joining Halma, Jennifer spent over 15 years leading Human Resources, Leadership
and Organisational Development for global divisions of PayPal, Bank of America and
Honeywell.

Jennifer will join the Diploma Board as a non-executive director on 1 June 2023 
and will also be a member of each of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees
from that date. Jennifer will succeed Andy Smith as Diploma’s Remuneration Committee
Chair in 2024, at which point Andy will stand down from the Board having completed
nine years of service.

> **David Lowden, Board Chair, commented:**
> “We are delighted that Jennifer has accepted our invitation to join the Board 
> and lead our Remuneration Committee. Diploma and its Board will benefit greatly
> from her wealth of very relevant experience and I look forward to working with
> her.”

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