Angus Cockburn to retire as Serco CFO

Angus Cockburn to retire as Serco CFO in April 2021; Nigel Crossley to be his successor. 

17 December 2020

Serco Group plc

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Serco Group plc ('Serco' or 'the Group'), the international provider of services to governments, today announces that, having served 21 years as a public-company CFO, six of them at Serco, Angus Cockburn, Group Chief Financial Officer, has informed the Board of his wish to retire from full-time executive life, and focus on further developing his non-executive portfolio.

It has therefore been agreed that Angus will step down from the Board at the AGM in April 2021 and will be succeeded as Group Chief Financial Officer by Nigel Crossley, currently Group Director of Finance, who will join the Board on the same date.  Nigel has worked for Serco since 2014 and he has been at the centre of the transformation of Serco and supported Angus in restoring the reputation and financial stability of the Group. Prior to joining Serco, Nigel held senior finance roles at EMI, RHM plc and Procter & Gamble.

Sir Roy Gardner, Chairman, said: "Angus has played a leading role in the transformation of Serco from the dire straits in which it found itself in 2014, through to the point at which it now has one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector and is in excellent financial and operational health, with strong liquidity, fully funded pension schemes and robust finance controls and assurance.  He is hugely respected both inside and outside Serco, and we are all immensely grateful for his contribution, not the least of which has been developing an ideal successor in Nigel Crossley who we look forward to welcoming onto the Board in April."

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For further information please contact:

Paul Checketts, Head of Investor Relations, tel: +44 (0) 7718 195 074 or email: [email protected]

Marcus De Ville, Head of Media Relations; tel +44 (0) 7738 898 550 or email: [email protected]

Notes: Executive Director Renumeration Disclosure

Angus Cockburn will work his contractual notice period which will run from December 2020 to December 2021.  He will step down as an Executive Director with effect from the AGM in April 2021 and will remain an employee of the Group receiving his normal annual basic salary and contractual benefits, paid monthly in arrears, until his notice period expires. He will not participate in the 2021 bonus or long-term incentive schemes, but as he will be retiring he will be a good leaver in respect of Serco's incentive schemes.

Nigel Crossley will be appointed CFO on a basic annual salary of £430,000, with 12 months' contractual notice. He will be eligible to participate in an annual bonus scheme which attracts a maximum of 140% of basic annual salary, and the long-term incentive plan of 150% of basic annual salary from April 2021.  His bonus earnings over 100% of his salary will be deferred into shares under the terms of the Serco Executive Bonus Deferral Plan.  He will receive a pension allowance in line with that of the wider workforce.

All necessary disclosures will be made in our 2021 Directors Renumeration Report (DRR).  In accordance with the Listing Rules, there are no additional matters that would require disclosure under LR 9.6.13 R (1) to (6) in relation to Nigel Crossley's appointment 

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Serco is a leading provider of public services. Our customers are governments or others operating in the public sector.  We gain scale, expertise and diversification by operating internationally across five sectors and four geographies: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services, delivered in UK & Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

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