Tate & Lyle PLC announced the appointment of Sarah Kuijlaars to the position of Chief Financial Officer, with effect from 16 September 2024. Sarah Kuijlaars is an experienced international finance leader, having previously served as Chief Financial Officer of De Beers Group and Arcadis NV. Prior to that, she was Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and held a number of senior finance leadership roles during a 25-year career at Shell plc.

Sarah is currently a non-executive director of Inchcape plc. Sarah succeeds Dawn Allen who, as announced on 24 April 2024, is leaving Tate & Lyle to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer of Haleon plc. Dawn will step down as Chief Financial Officer and from Tate & Lyle's Board on 15 September 2024 and will remain with the Company until late October to ensure a smooth transition.

Sarah Kuijlaars, 56, joined Shell plc in 1989 where, during a 25-year career, she held a number of finance leadership roles in geographies such as Nigeria, Russia, Brazil and the Middle East. In 2016 she was appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer & Group Controller, Rolls-Royce Holdings plc and then, in 2017, became Chief Financial Officer, Civil Aerospace at Rolls-Royce. In 2018, she took up the position of Chief Financial Officer of Arcadis NV, a leading global design, engineering and management consultancy with a listing on the Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

Then, from 2020 to 2023, she served as Chief Financial Officer of De Beers Group (owned 85% by Anglo American PLC and 15% by the Government of the Republic of Botswana). Sarah currently serves as a non-executive director of Inchcape plc (from January 2022), a leading automotive distributor, where she chairs the Audit Committee. Previously, she has held non-executive directorships at Kumba Iron Ore Limited (2023) a subsidiary of Anglo American plc with a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and Aggreko plc (2019 - 2021).

Sarah is a British national and has a Mathematics degree from Oxford University. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and an Associate member of The Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT).