EMIS Group, the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services, today announces the retirement of Robin Taylor and the appointment of Jennifer Byrne to the Board as an independent Non-executive Director.
Robin will retire at the conclusion of the 2019 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 8 May 2019, after nine years of service with EMIS Group as Senior Non-executive Independent Director and Chair of its audit committee. Andy McKeon, Non-executive Director, who has been on the Board since 2013 will step up to the role of Senior Independent Director, while Kevin Boyd, Non-executive Director, will become Chair of the audit committee.
Jennifer Byrne will be formally appointed as an independent Non-executive Director immediately following the 2019 AGM on 8 May 2019, bringing her wealth of experience in the global software sector to the leadership team. She will join the EMIS Group Board’s audit, remuneration and nomination committees.
Jennifer served Lockheed Martin for over twenty five years in a series of high ranking roles including Vice President of Space Systems Engineering and Technology where her staff numbered in excess of 10,000. She has extensive experience of successful delivery of large scale mission critical products, projects and systems in highly complex environments. More recently, Jennifer relocated to the UK to take on the position of Chief Operating Officer at G-Research, a quantitative research and technology company that produces predictive research and builds advanced data analytics technology.
Mike O’Leary, Chairman of EMIS Group, said: “Robin has completed nine years of service with EMIS Group and on behalf of his colleagues, I would like to thank him sincerely for his advice and continued support throughout. We wish him a long and happy retirement.
“It gives me great pleasure to welcome Jennifer Byrne to the Board. Her wealth of commercial experience and background in using technical insight to deliver challenging and technically complex engineering programmes, will complement and enhance the significant expertise we already have on the Board.”
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