14 December 2021

ROLLS-ROYCE APPOINTS SARAH ARMSTRONG

AS CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

Rolls-Royce (LSE:RR., ADR:RYCEY) announces that Sarah Armstrong will take up the post of Chief People Officer with effect from 1 January 2022, providing strategic leadership of our People agenda. She will join the Executive Team from Civil Aerospace, where she was most recently People Director and instrumental in delivering our restructuring programme. Sarah replaces Harry Holt who leaves the business at the end of the year, following the announcement of his departure on 5 October. Separately, Ben Story, Strategic Marketing Director, has decided to leave us, after five years on the Executive Team, to pursue new opportunities.

Warren East, CEO, Rolls-Royce, said: "Sarah has held many senior positions during her 15-year career with Rolls-Royce, providing great organisational leadership and delivering innovative people initiatives. I look forward to welcoming her to the Executive Team. I would also like to wish Ben well in his next endeavours. He was attracted to Rolls-Royce by the opportunity to help drive change across the Group and in the last five years we have renewed our brand, vision and strategy and we are now well-positioned to lead the transition to net zero as a global power group and to benefit from greater digitalisation. I am grateful for the central role that Ben has played in bringing about these changes."

For further information, please contact:

Media

Richard Wray

Director of External Communications & Brand, Rolls-Royce plc

Tel +44 (0) 7810 850055

Richard.Wray@Rolls-Royce.com

Investors

Isabel Green

Head of Investor Relations, Rolls-Royce plc

Tel +44 (0) 7880 160976

Isabel.Green@Rolls-Royce.com

www.rolls-royce.com

About Rolls-Royce Holdings plc

1.   Rolls-Royce pioneers the power that matters to connect, power and protect society. We have pledged to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in our operations by 2030 (excluding product testing) and joined the UN Race to Zero campaign in 2020, affirming our ambition to play a fundamental role in enabling the sectors in which we operate achieve net zero carbon by 2050.

2.   Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 150 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces and navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.

3.   Annual underlying revenue was £11.76 billion in 2020 and we invested £1.25 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 28 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royce engineers at the forefront of scientific research.

4.     Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is publicly traded company (LSE: RR., ADR: RYCEY, LEI: 213800EC7997ZBLZJH69)