Personal Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah Rees to the Board as a non-executive Director, replacing Harry Driver who retired last year.

Deborah is a Reward and Performance expert. She has led multiple global projects in pay structure, variable pay design, total reward, performance management and reward strategy with clients ranging from SMEs to very large multinationals. Deborah is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD as well as a member of the Institute of Directors. She is a regular speaker at CIPD and Reward conferences as well as on BBC News and radio, contributing to research published in 'People Management' and other media on HR strategy, organisation design and remuneration issues. Deborah has written chapters which have been published in 'The Compensation Handbook' on 'Rewarding Talent' (McGraw Hill May 2014). She has a mixed background in consultancy and line management, working for both Marks and Spencer plc and Nationwide Building Society before joining Towers Perrin in 2000. Deborah co-founded Innecto in 2002, a specialist consulting organisation working with a range of different sector clients. Deborah co-founded Innecto in 2002, a specialist consulting organisation working with a range of different sector clients. As well as being a director of Innecto she is also an existing director of Shipstar Limited and was previously a director of Artemis Partners Limited.

Mark Scanlon, Chief Executive of Personal Group, commented: "We are delighted to welcome Deborah to the Board; her knowledge of the Reward and Performance sector and her extensive business experience will be extremely beneficial to the Group. We are looking forward to Deborah's input to the Group's strategy going forward."

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