# Dunelm Group appoints Paula Vennells as a Non-Executive Director

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/dunelm-group-appoints-paula-vennells-as-a-non-executive-director/412791940
- Published: 2019-09-04T07:15:00+01:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

**Dunelm Group plc** (LON:DNLM), the UK’s leading homewares retailer, has today 
announced that Paula Vennells CBE has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director,
with immediate effect.  She will be a member of the Audit and Risk, Remuneration
and Nominations committees. 

Paula is an experienced business leader, with deep consumer and retail experience.
As CEO of the Post Office between 2012 and 2019, she led the separation from the
Royal Mail and delivered a major turnaround of the business, including a dramatic
restructuring of the portfolio and investment in new online services. Prior to joining
the Post Office in 2007, she held senior commercial roles at Whitbread, Dixons and
Argos.
Paula is Chair of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a non-executive 
director of Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC, and a non-executive director of the Cabinet
Office.

> **Chairman of Dunelm, Andy Harrison said**:
> “I am delighted to welcome Paula to our Board. Her experience of successfully 
> leading the Post Office, a large and complex consumer business, through a period
> of significant change is extremely valuable, and she will be a great addition 
> to our Board. We shall also benefit from the breadth and quality of Paula’s boardroom
> experience.”

No further disclosures are required under LR 9.6.14 with respect to this appointment,
and together with her ‘persons closely associated’ Paula currently has no beneficial
interests in the Company’s ordinary shares of one pence each.

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