Online book retailer Booktopia Group Limited announced the appointment of Abigail Cheadle and Stephen Ezekiel as Non Executive Directors. The new appointments follow the appointment of Peter George as a Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Board on 1 December 2022. Following the appointments, the Booktopia Board comprises Mr. George, Booktopia Founders Tony Nash and Steve Traurig, Ms Cheadle and Mr. Ezekiel.

About Abigail Cheadle: Abigail is a Chartered Accountant, corporate strategist and risk management expert with more than 30 years of experience working across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. She has previously worked as a senior executive with leading advisory firms, including EY, Deloitte, and KordaMentha, and in recent years has become a professional company director working across a range of different sectors and industries, including consumer goods, technology and renewables. She has been a Director of six ASX-listed boards to date, including former roles with online clothing platform, SurfStitch and media intelligence and data technology company, Isentia.

Her current board appointments include: Chair and Non-Executive Director- Shriro Holdings Limited; Non-Executive Director and Audit and Risk Committee Chair - Novatti Group Ltd; Non-Executive Director and Audit and Risk Committee Chair - LGI Ltd. About Stephen Ezekiel: Stephen is the Chairman and CEO of Hong Kong-based private credit firm Sammasan Capital. He has over 25 years of experience in leadership positions in the financial services, private equity and media/telecom sectors. He serves as an independent board director to luxury crystal manufacturer Baccarat S. A and is a director of private members club 70 North.

As an executive, Stephen was part of the GE Capital Asia leadership team, where he was instrumental in establishing GE Capital's structured lending business in Asia. He was previously the CEO of GE Capital Hong Kong and Singapore & Commercial Distribution Finance. He was also the head of GE Equity Asia, GE Capital's private equity arm.

Stephen founded and led the GE Capital Asia businesses focusing on leveraged & sponsor finance, corporate lending, corporate aircraft finance and commercial distribution finance (i.e. distributor, dealer and channel financing. Before 2001, Stephen was a lawyer in a variety of private practice and in-house roles in Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo, including working for British Telecom from 1997-2001 as lead M&A counsel for Asia. Stephen has a B.Com/LLB degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney.