By Ian Walker
LONDON-- Barclays PLC Tuesday named Crawford Gillies as
nonexecutive director and a member of the board remuneration
committee from May 1.
Mr. Gillies will succeed John Sunderland as chairman of the
committee at a date to be agreed on, consistent with ensuring a
smooth transition, the 300-year old bank and financial services
provider said.
Mr. Gillies has over three decades of business and management
experience, initially with Bain & Co., a firm of international
management consultants, where he was managing director, Europe from
2001 to 2005. Since 2007 he has been on the Board of Standard Life
PLC, where he has chaired the remuneration committee.
Barclays shares at 0805 GMT were up 1 pence, or 0.29%, at 238
pence in a lower FTSE 100 Index--down 0.14%.
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