Chemring Group Plc (LON:CHG) today announced the appointment of Alpna Amar as an independent non-executive director. She will join the Board with immediate effect.
Alpna (age 43) is currently Corporate Development Director of Kier Group plc and has been a member of Kier Group’s Executive Committee since May 2021. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Alpna has over 22 years of corporate, operational and commercial finance, strategy, M&A and investor relations experience in both corporate and consulting positions. Prior to Kier Group she held senior investor relations and corporate development roles at global automotive suppliers, TI Fluid Systems plc and International Automotive Components Group SA.
Alpna is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and has a degree in Economics and Politics from Lancaster University.
Upon joining the Board, Alpna Amar will become a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.
Carl-Peter Forster, Chairman of Chemring, commented: “Following an extensive selection process, I am delighted to welcome Alpna to Chemring. She brings considerable experience of corporate strategy across a range of consulting and corporate roles and I am confident that she will be a valuable addition to the Board. As we recently set out in our interim results, Chemring is well positioned to benefit from the increasingly positive defence market, and we will continue to align the business to meet this demand.”
· Chemring Group is a FTSE-250 global business that specialises in the manufacture of high technology products and the provision of services to the aerospace, defence and security markets
· Employing approximately 2,500 people worldwide, and with production facilities in four countries, Chemring meets the needs of customers in more than fifty countries
· Chemring is organised under two strategic product segments: Sensors & Information and Countermeasures & Energetics
· Chemring has a diverse portfolio of products that deliver high reliability solutions to protect people, platforms, missions and information against constantly changing threats
· Operating in niche markets and with strong investment in research and development (“R&D”), Chemring has the agility to rapidly react to urgent customer needs
