HSS Hire Group plc announced that after seven years with the Group, Steve Trowbridge, Chief Financial Officer, is stepping down from the Board to pursue new opportunities. HSS announced that Steve Bailey will become Interim Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Steve Bailey will join the HSS Executive Committee and will attend Board meetings, but will not be appointed as an Executive Director of the Board.

Steve Trowbridge will remain with the company to effect an orderly handover of responsibilities to Steve Bailey. Steve Bailey, has over 30 years' experience working in, and leading, finance teams, having started his career with Coopers and Lybrand where he qualified in 1987. Mr. Bailey held the position of Finance Director for The Co-Operative Food Group from 2011 to 2015 and prior to that was CFO at HJ Heinz Company Limited and Guoman & Thistle Hotels.

HSS also announced that Neil Sachdev, Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman, has informed the Board that due to increasing time commitments in other roles, he does not intend to stand for re-election at the Company's AGM on 15 June 2016 and will leave the Board on that date.