Ashtead Group plc announced the appointment of Paul Walker as a non-executive director and Chairman designate as of 2nd July 2018. Chris Cole, who has been Chairman of Ashtead since 2007 and previously a non-executive director, will retire from Ashtead at the completion of this year’s Annual General Meeting on 11 September 2018.  Paul will assume the role of Chairman on this date.  Paul is currently non-executive Chairman of Halma plc and a non-executive director of Experian plc and Sophos Group plc. He was CEO at the Sage Group plc from 1994 to 2010 and has previously served on the boards of Diageo plc and Mytravel Group plc.