The Board of Low & Bonar plc announced that Brett Simpson, who has been with the Group since September 2014, has resigned from his position as Group Chief Executive. Brett will step down from the Board immediately but will remain an employee until 30 April 2018 when he leaves the Company to join Fenner PLC. Trudy Schoolenberg, currently a non-executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as Interim Group Chief Executive with immediate effect pending the appointment of a permanent Chief Executive. Trudy has been a non-executive Director of Low & Bonar for four years and has extensive executive experience in the chemical, technology and petrochemical sectors with significant engineering and product development expertise from over 20 years' spent at Royal Dutch Shell. Trudy is also a non-executive director at Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc. Trudy will lead the Group on a day to day basis, in conjunction with Philip de Klerk, Group Chief Financial Officer.