ITM Power Plc announced the appointment of Tom Rae, currently Principal of Tom Rae Consulting, as a Non-executive director of the company with effective December 3, 2020. Until September 2019, Tom was Group Director of Purchasing & Supply Chain and a member of the Group Executive Committee at JCB. He replaces Bob Pendlebury who retired from the Board in July 2020, as the representative of J.C.B. Research Limited, a significant shareholder in ITM Power. Tom left NSG in 2014 to join JCB as Group Director of Purchasing & Supply Chain and was a member of the Group Executive Committee before setting up his own consultancy practice in late 2019. He holds a degree in chemistry from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and an MBA from Napier University, Edinburgh.