Gooch & Housego PLC announced that Chris Jewell will be appointed to the Board of Directors as Chief Financial Officer with effect from October 2019 at the latest. Chris has extensive executive and financial experience, with a successful track record in technology led, global engineering and manufacturing businesses operating in A&D, Industrial and Life Science markets. He is currently Group Director of Financial Control at TT Electronics PLC and has previously held senior finance positions at Cobham PLC and MBDA UK.

Andy Boteler, current CFO, will step down from the Board of Directors in June 2019 and in the interim period before Chris' start date, Group Financial Controller Gareth Crowe will lead finance function.