IMI plc announced the appointment of Caroline Dowling as a non-executive director and member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees with effect from 1 January 2020. Caroline has extensive experience at senior executive level through her successful career in the technology industry, spending much of her career in California. Caroline has held senior global leadership roles at Flex Ltd. (previously Flextronics International Ltd), most recently as Group President, Enterprise & Cloud Compute Business Groups & Global Services Business Unit. Caroline is also a non-executive director of DCC plc and was previously a non-executive director of the Irish Development Agency. Birgit Nørgaard will be stepping-down from the Board at the end of February 2020, on 1 March 2020 Carl-Peter Forster will succeed Birgitas Chair of the Remuneration Committee. On the same date, Thomas Thune Andersen will become the non-executive director responsible for employee engagement, will join the Audit Committee and will cease to be a member of the Remuneration Committee.