Severfield plc announced the appointment of Cynthia Gordon as a non-executive director with effect from 21 October 2024. She will chair the Company's remuneration committee, taking over from Louise Hardy, who will leave the Board, as previously announced, after a short handover on 31 October 2024. Cynthia will also serve on the Company's nomination and audit committees.

Cynthia is currently a non-executive director and remuneration committee chair at Bodycote plc, the FTSE 250 global industrial services company,non-executive chair of Global Fashion Group,a Luxembourg-based ecommerce company listed in Frankfurtand a non-executive director of Eutelsat Communications SA,a satellite operator listed in Paris. She also acts as a senior advisor to Tillman Global Holdings, an investor in infrastructure businesses and was formerly a non-executive director at Tele2 and Kinnevik. As an executive director, Cynthia worked at a number of companies, including Millicom, Ooredoo and Orange.  She was CEO of Millicom Africa responsible for six countries, and was also Group Commercial Director at Ooredoo, with responsibility for commercial performance across 15 countries.