Brady plc announced changes to its Board of Directors. After an extensive selection process involving numerous high-quality candidates, the company confirmed the appointment of Carmen Carey as its new Chief Executive, with effect from 18 February 2019. Carmen initially joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director in March 2017.

Carmen is an IT industry veteran whose career to date encompasses leadership roles as an executive in fast-growing global VC-backed and publicly traded technology companies. She was most recently the COO of artificial intelligence company Unbabel. Prior to Unbabel, Carmen was CEO of Apica, CEO of Big Data Partnership, COO of MetaPack, CEO of ControlCircle, COO of MessageLabs and VP of Global Services at BroadVision.

As CEO, she successfully led the exit of Big Data Partnership and ControlCircle to Teradata and Alternative Networks, respectively. She was also a Non-Executive Director for Arts Alliance Media through its acquisition by Luxin-Rio. As part of this process, Ian Jenks will step back from his role as Executive Chairman to being Non-Executive Chairman with effect from 1 April 2019.

Ian became Executive Chairman in September 2016, initially as a short-term measure, and the company are indebted to him for his longer than anticipated tenure. He has steered Brady through a time of huge transition and the company look forward to his on-going role as Non-Executive Chairman.