M Winkworth PLC announced the appointment of Tara Tan to its Board as an Executive Director with effect from 12 February 2024. Tara, a qualified solicitor with over 20 years' experience, joined the Winkworth team in 2001 and became a director of Winkworth Franchising Limited ("WFL") in 2004 as Director of Legal and Business Affairs. Tara stepped down from WFL and left the Company in 2006 to focus on other interests.

She re-joined in 2012 as a consultant, and in 2014 was appointed to work full time as General Counsel before re-joining the Board of WFL in 2020. Tara will provide strategic and transactional guidance to the business development team and to the day-to-day commercial operations team, as well as continuing her work on brand protection, network compliance and training.