INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Simon Lowth
Appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 January 2024. Simon is a member of Audit and Nomination & Governance Committees.
Key skills and competencies
Simon has extensive experience in finance, accounting, risk, corporate strategy as well as mergers and acquisitions and brings a wealth of expertise across a wide range of sectors, including within regulated industries. Having served as the CFO in four FTSE-100 companies, he has deep experience of capital markets, implementing strategic change, cost transformation and performance improvement programmes as well as understanding how technology can be used to transform a business.
Current external appointments
Group Chief Financial Officer of BT Group.
Previous experience
Simon was previously Group Chief Financial Officer at AstraZeneca and Scottish Power. Before joining Scottish Power, he led the Industrial Practice of McKinsey in the UK. He previously served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Standard Chartered.
Nationality
British