Imperial Brands PLC announced that Lukas Paravicini, Chief Financial Officer of agricultural commodities and brokerage group ED&F Man Holdings, will be appointed to the Board as Chief Financial Officer on August 5 2021 or at an earlier date to be announced. Lukas succeeds Oliver Tant, who will step down from the Board upon Lukas's appointment and leave the business following an orderly handover. Before joining ED&F Man Holdings, Lukas held senior positions at Fonterra. He was Chief Financial Officer from 2013-2017 and Chief Operating Officer, Global Consumer and Foodservice Business from 2017-2018. Prior to that, he spent 22 years with Nestle in various senior finance and general management roles, working in South America and latterly in Switzerland for Nestle Professional, the food service arm of Nestle SA, first as Chief Financial Officer and then as Vice President & General Manager of Europe.