Boussard & Gavaudan Holding Limited announced that Andrew Howat has assumed the role of Chairman of the company, replacing Andrew Henton who is retiring as a director having served on the Board for ten years. The transition is part of a planned succession programme, with Andrew Howat providing an important element of ongoing Board continuity. The Board announced the appointment of Julia Goh as a non-executive director, replacing Andrew Howat as Chair of the Audit Committee.

She will also be a member of the Management Engagement Committee. Ms Goh is a Chartered Accountant and has 27 years' of broad-based financial services experience in London. She was a Managing Director at Barclays Investment Bank from 2010-2018 in various senior front office positions including from 2017 the COO of Global Markets.  She was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Prime Services Risk at Credit Suisse from 1998-2009.  Prior to that, she was a risk manager at Nomura International.  She is currently a non-executive director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc (FTSE 250 investment trust), Pension Insurance Corporation plc and a director of the charity, Children of the Mekong.

The appointment of Ms Goh followed an extensive search process led by a professional search firm.