G8 Education Limited announced a number of upcoming board changes, providing further impetus to the group's strategy and growth objectives after a strong fiscal year 2017 half-year earnings performance. Professor Julie Cogin, Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management and Deputy Dean at the University of New South Wales Business School, and Margaret Zabel, an experienced customer strategy and marketing executive and professional non-executive director, will join the board on 1 September 2017. Matthew Reynolds, who has been a non-executive director of G8 for six years from 2011, will be retiring from the Board on the 31st August 2017. He is a non-executive director of AxsessToday Limited and Bubs Australia Limited and has also been invited to assume the role of Chairman of a business that is planning an ASX listing.