Devro appointed Jeremy Burks as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 May 2020. Jeremy will also become a member of the Audit Committee, the Executive Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee from that date. Jeremy is Executive Vice President at Roquette Group, a privately-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a pioneer of new vegetal proteins. He has headed their global commercial function for the last five years and has also driven a global strategic, operational and organisational change programme across the business. Prior to this he spent more than 20 years with Dow Corning in a variety of global business and commercial leadership roles during which time he spent 10 years in Asia establishing and growing specialty businesses in the region.