Appointed to the Board

Non-Executive Director on 1 January 2018

Non-Executive Deputy Chair on 7 November 2018

Non-Executive Chair on 22 May 2019

Interim Executive Chair on 15 May 2020

Non-Executive Chair on 1 February 2021

Skills and experience

• Proven business leader with significant chair and board leadership experience. Keith spent 18 years at British Airways, including five years as CFO, three years as CEO and two years as Executive Chair, during which time he led the transformation of British Airways. Formerly a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, a Non-Executive Director of Aviva plc and an Executive Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Transport for London.
• Extensive industrial relations, operational and customer service experience.
• Chartered accountant.

Significant external appointments

Chair of Halfords Group plc

Appointed to the Board

Non-Executive Director on 1 November 2017

Chief Executive Officer of Royal Mail on 11 January 2021

Skills and experience

• Extensive experience as a global business leader.
• Proven track record in delivering digital transformation and enhanced customer experience. Simon has held senior positions at HSBC, Ocado plc, Honda Motor Europe Ltd, Motorola Inc, lastminute.com, Apple Inc. and Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc.
• Former Royal Mail Designated Non-Executive Director for workforce engagement.

Significant external appointments

Member of the Digital Advisory Board of Coca Cola Europacific Partners

Appointed to the Board

1 April 2021

Skills and experience

• Significant international and logistics experience. Martin spent 15 years with Deutsche Post DHL in a variety of senior logistics, parcel-related and strategic roles including CEO of the DACH region at DHL Supply Chain.
• Deep knowledge of GLS, having joined in 2015 as Chairman of GLS Germany, becoming GLS Group CEO in June 2020.

Significant external appointments

None

Appointed to the Board

11 January 2021

Skills and experience

• Significant financial, logistics and industrial relations experience. Mick joined Royal Mail in 1993 and has held various senior roles, including Corporate Finance Director at the time of the IPO in 2013 and Chief of Staff to the then CEO.
• Chartered accountant.

Significant external appointments

None

Appointed to the Board

1 October 2019

Skills and experience

• Extensive board and governance experience, having served as Chair of 3i Group plc and as a Non-Executive Director of several companies, including BG Group and GKN plc. Baroness Hogg won the Sunday Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Executive Directors in 2017.
• Significant political and regulatory experience through her former roles as Lead Independent Non-Executive Director of HM Treasury, Chair of the Financial Reporting Council and Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit under John Major. She was granted a life peerage in 1995 and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Significant external appointments

None

Appointed to the Board

1 December 2016

Skills and experience

• Significant experience in developing and implementing strategies and leading substantial transformation programmes. During her long career at BP plc, Rita held various roles including Vice President of Downstream Transformation and Chief Operating Officer of Global Petrochemicals.

Significant external appointments

None

Appointed to the Board

22 May 2019

Skills and experience

• Extensive experience in industrial relations, transformation programmes and employee engagement gained through her 18-year career at British Airways, where Maria was the Director of People, Legal and Government and Industry Affairs, and the Director of People and Legal.
• Qualified solicitor with significant risk, compliance and legal knowledge, having held various positions with Hogan Lovells, Lloyds of London and Law College of Europe.

Significant external appointments

Non-Executive Director of De La Rue plc

Panel Member of the Competition and Markets Authority

Appointed to the Board

22 May 2019

Skills and experience

• Extensive strategy, finance and M&A experience. Michael spent 27 years in investment banking at Robert Fleming & Co, UBS and most recently Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was Co-Head of Investment Banking and Corporate Broking for the UK and Ireland.
• Significant knowledge of the letters and parcel sector. He is a former Non-Executive Director of UK Mail Group plc, where he was also the Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.

Significant external appointments

Chair of Morgan Sindall Group plc

Chair of London Stock Exchange plc (a subsidiary of London Stock Exchange Group plc)

Appointed to the Board

1 November 2019

Skills and experience

• Significant board and executive experience, having served as the CEO of National Australia Bank Europe Limited (NAB) and the CEO of Woolwich plc. Lynne was formerly a Non-Executive Director at Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Scottish Water, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc and Nationwide Building Society.
• Transactional experience gained through her involvement in Woolwich plc’s IPO and FTSE 100 listing and its sale to Barclays, the disinvestment of NAB’s Irish operations and the integration of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks.

Significant external appointments

Senior Independent Director of Serco Group plc

Non-Executive Director of TSB Banking Group plc

Senior Independent Director of TSB Bank plc (a subsidiary of TSB Banking Group plc)

Appointed to the Board

29 September 2021

Skills and experience 

• Proven business leader with extensive experience in developing innovative technology. Shashi is currently the Director of Strategy and Chief Technology Officer at Transport for London (TfL), a role in which he is responsible for the operation of TfL’s revenue collection system. He also led the development and implementation of contactless payments on TfL’s systems.
• Significant customer service experience gained through his responsibility for integrating TfL’s customer-facing activities and for running its customer service operations.

Significant external appointments

None

Appointed to the Board

8 April 2019

Skills and experience

• Significant legal and company secretarial experience. Mark was the former General Counsel and Company Secretary of Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc and the interim Company Secretary of Yorkshire Water. Formerly a partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP, where he specialised in corporate litigation and headed up the national IT litigation practice.
• Data and technological experience. Mark helped oversee Morrisons move online with Ocado and then Amazon, and dealt with the response to Morrisons’ employee data theft in 2014.

Significant external appointments

None