Lloyds Banking Group plc announced the appointment of Amanda Mackenzie OBE as a Non-Executive Director of the Group Board, effective October 1st 2018. Amanda is Chief Executive of Business in the Community, and until 2015 was Chief Marketing and Communications Officer and a member of the Executive Committee at Aviva plc. She previously held senior marketing roles at organizations including Centrica, Hewlett Packard and BT Group and was a Non-Executive Director of Mothercare Group from 2011- 2017. She will serve as a member of the Board Risk Committee and Responsible Business Committee. In other changes Deborah McWhinney has informed the Board that, due to her personal and family commitments in the US where she is resident, she will step down as a Non-Executive Director of the Group at the end of December 2018. In line with board succession planning, Stuart Sinclair has been appointed to succeed Anita Frew as Chairman of the Board Remuneration Committee with effect from September 1st 2018. He has served as a member of the Committee since January 2016. Anita, who joined the Board in December 2010, will continue to be a member of the Committee, alongside her roles as the Group's Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director. The Group is also to announced that Nigel Hinshelwood, Sarah Bentley and Brendan Gilligan have accepted appointments as designate independent Non-Executive Directors of the Group's Ring Fenced Bank. Subject to regulatory approval they will join the Ring Fenced Bank boards (Lloyds Bank plc and Bank of Scotland plc) on January 1st 2019. He previously worked at Unisys and Cap-Gemini and currently also serves as a Non-Executive Director of Nordea Bank AB and Lloyd's of London. Sarah is currently Chief Customer Officer at Severn Trent plc, and was previously a partner of Accenture and leader of their UK Digital technology practice.