Mirriad Advertising plc announced the retirement of Roger Faxon and the appointment of Bob Head to the Board as an independent Non-executive Director. On 30th April Mirriad announced that John Pearson would replace Roger as Non-executive Chairman. As part of the planned succession, Roger will now retire from the Board with immediate effect after a long and productive association with the company. Bob Head will be formally appointed as an independent Non-executive Director immediately following the Company's AGM which will be held on 13th June 2019. Bob has a wealth of experience acting as a CEO and Non-executive Director to a variety of technology and digital businesses. Robert Michael Head is a qualified Chartered Accountant, originally training with Coopers & Lybrand, where he was a senior manager, an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers. He has had a long, varied and successful career initially focused on the impact of technology on financial services including tenure at Prudential where he was the joint founder of egg.com and the Co-operative Bank plc where he was the first Chief Executive of award-winning online bank smile.co.uk. Bob's career continued with nine years spent in various roles with Old Mutual including a period as Group HR & Strategy Director. Bob has also spent time in South Africa where he was a member of the Executive Committee of the South African Revenue Service before a serving short period as Interim Chief Financial Officer at South African Airways.