Spirent Communications plc announced appointment of Bill Thomas as Non-executive Chairman of the Board with effect from May 19, 2017. Bill joined Spirent as a Non-executive Director on December 1, 2016, has wide-ranging experience of leading highly complex services businesses and technology-led organisations. His career has included senior management positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services and serving in multiple roles over 20 years at EDS. He is currently a non-executive director of The Co-operative Bank plc, serves on the advisory board of cyber security specialist FireEye Inc.