Nominet has recently announced the appointments of Baroness Rennie Fritchie DBE as Chair of Nominet and Piers White MBE as an independent appointed non-executive director. Both appointments are made following an open and competitive selection process.
Baroness Fritchie DBE is an Independent Crossbench Peer, Chair of the 2gether NHS Trust for Gloucestershire, a consultant on strategy and leadership and Vice Chair of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Audit and Advisory Committee. She was appointed as Chair of Nominet in June 2010 following a competitive selection process.
She was Chair of the Web Science Research Initiative at Southampton University and MIT until 2009 and is a former Pro Chancellor of Southampton University. She was Vice Chair of Stroud and Swindon Building Society until 2008. In 1999 she was appointed Commissioner for Public Appointments and a Civil Service Commissioner, a post she held for seven years.
Piers is an experienced non-executive director, with an extensive board level business career. He was appointed as a non-executive director of Nominet in June 2010 following a competitive selection process.
Piers is a non-executive director at Ordnance Survey and has been Chair of their Audit and Risk committee for the past eight years. He is also a non-executive director of Croydon Economic Development Company Ltd, ACS International Schools Ltd and CIPFA Business, the commercial arm of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Pro bono, Piers makes time to act as Chair of The Larks Nursery School, as Deputy Chair of Hazelwood School and as a Governor of Croydon College.
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