The a2 Milk Company Limited announced that Bessie Lee will retire from the Board effective 28 February 2022. This was foreshadowed at the Company's Annual Meeting in November 2021 and follows her appointment as CEO of a company in China in the later part of 2021. The Company is also pleased to advise that Sandra Yu has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1 March 2022.

Sandra is a highly regarded company director and an experienced global executive in consumer goods industries, and importantly in the infant milk formula market in China, with a proven track record of driving business and brand transformation, leveraging opportunities for growth, and building organisational capabilities across China as well as the USA and other parts of Asia. As the former head of Mead Johnson Nutrition's Greater China business, Sandra was a member of the Mead Johnson Nutrition's Global leadership team. Prior to that, Sandra held various other senior executive roles at Mead Johnson Nutrition, including as the Global Marketing Vice President, responsible for transition to new digital media and ecommerce channels globally.

Sandra was also appointed as the non-executive chairwoman to lead RB China advisory board after the merger between Reckitt Benckiser and Mead Johnson Nutrition in 2017. Prior to joining Mead Johnson, Sandra held executive positions at Unilever, where she worked across Asia for thirteen years. The Board has determined that Ms Yu will be an independent director and will sit on both the Audit and Risk Management and the People and Remuneration committees.