Rose Petroleum PLC has hired Robert Bensh as its new chairman, not David Sefton as had previously been announced by the company. The company had, at the end of March, announced that Sefton would be appointed along with James Berwick as a new non-executive director following a proposal coming from a group of its shareholders. The company informed that Sefton and Berwick were no longer seeking to join the board. It subsequently appointed Bensh as the new executive chairman and Tom Reynolds (who has been a consultant to Rose) joins the board as non-executive director. As previously announced, Philip Jeffcock and Kelly Scott are to step down from the board.