Re Directorate

1 March 2021

MJ Gleeson plc

(GLE.L)

For immediate release                           

Re Directorate

MJ Gleeson plc (the "Group") announces that Elaine Bailey will join the Board as Non-Executive Director with effect from 1st March 2021.

Elaine has extensive experience in housing, engineering, construction and government services gained from a varied career across the private, public, regulated and not-for-profit sectors.

Elaine was Chief Executive of Hyde Housing Group (2014-2019), a London based Housing Association with 50,000 properties and a development programme approaching 1,500 units per annum. Previously she held a number of senior management roles at Serco (2000-2013) and at HM Prison Service (1996-2000).  Elaine, a Chartered Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers, spent her initial career in a number of engineering consultancies.

Elaine has a number of non-executive roles including Residential Secure Income plc (since 2020), McCarthy & Stone (Shared Ownership) Limited (since 2020) and at the Health and Safety Executive (since 2021). 

It is expected that Elaine will become Chair of the Sustainability Committee and a member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.  

Dermot Gleeson, Chairman, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Elaine to the Board.  Her wide-ranging experience will be highly relevant as we look to the next phase of the Group's development, especially in a post-Covid environment with sustainability at the top of the agenda."

ENDS

Notes:

No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to LR 9.6.13 R.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of EU Regulation 596/2014. The person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Leanne Johnson, Company Secretary.  

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