Meggitt PLC announced that Sir Nigel Rudd will join the board on 1 March 2015, initially as Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman. Sir Nigel will be appointed Non-Executive Chairman at the end of the Annual General Meeting in April 2015, following the previously announced retirement of Sir Colin Terry. Sir Nigel Rudd is currently the Non-Executive Chairman of BBA Aviation plc and Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd, and is chairman designate of Aquarius Platinum Ltd. (until his appointment as Chairman from the beginning of March 2015).

He is also a Non-Executive Director of Sappi Limited and has been Chancellor of Loughborough University since 2010.