30th Mar 2015 07:00
30 March 2015
Hydro International plc
("Hydro" or the "Company")
Appointment of Director
Hydro International (AIM: HYD), a leading provider of environmentally sustainable and innovative solutions to water management challenges the world over, is pleased to announce that Huw Davies will join the Board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. It is also the Board's intention to elect Huw Davies as Chairman of the Audit Committee following the retirement of Roger Lockwood from the role at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 21st May 2015.
Huw is the current Chief Financial Officer of Wates Group Limited. He was previously Head of Corporate Finance at Taylor Woodrow and has held key positions with KPMG, Ernst and Young and the Government of Oman. Huw is a member of the Wates Developments Executive Committee, which he chaired until mid-2012, and a Director of Needspace?, the Wates Group managed workspace division.
He is Chairman of the BiTC South East Advisory Board and is HRH The Prince of Wales Ambassador for Responsible Business in the South East. He was a non-executive director of WSP until July 2012, and also a non-executive director of West Bromwich Building Society, sitting as a member of both its Audit and Nominations Committees until July 2011.
Michael Jennings commented: "The Board is delighted that Huw Davies is joining Hydro International. Huw brings significant and relevant board experience, as both an executive and non-executive director, across financial, industrial, construction and engineering business-to-business groups. We very much look forward to working with Huw as we look to develop and grow our organisation."
The following information on Huw Davies is provided pursuant to AIM Rule 17:
Full name and age: David Huw Davies (age 59), Huw currently holds no ordinary shares in the Company.
Current directorships:
G Purchase Construction Limited | Wates Homes (Odiham) Limited |
GW217 Limited | Wates Homes (Wallingford) Limited |
Purchase Group Limited | Wates Homes (Warsash) Limited |
Purchase Homes Limited | 10 St. Bride Street Limited |
Purchase Home Improvements Limited | Brooks and Rivers Limited |
Purchase Support Limited | Ormonde Place Management Company Limited |
Drakes Place (Aylesbury) Management Company Limited | QED Education Environments Limited |
Linden Wates (Kempshot) Limited | Relocation and Inventory Services Limited |
Wessex Water Services Limited | Wates Smartspace Limited |
Barratt Wates (Lindfield) Limited | Stageselect Limited |
Linden Wates (The Frythe) Limited | Steadfast Management Limited |
Linden Wates (Cranleigh) Limited | Third Wates Investments Limited |
Barratt Wates (Worthing) Limited | UPlug Limited |
Wates Living Space (Maintenance) Limited | Wates Amenity Lands Limited |
I Can Charity | Wates Built Homes (Blakes) Limited |
Linden Wates (Dorking) Limited | Wates Built Homes (London) Limited |
Linden Wates Developments (Chichester) Limited | Wates Built Homes (Retirement) Limited |
Linden Wates (West Hampstead) Limited | Wates Built Homes (Southern) Limited |
DWH/Wates (Thame) Limited | Wates Built Homes Limited |
Wates Developments (Bonehurst Horley) Ltd | Wates Construction Limited |
Linden Wates Developments (Folders Meadow) Limited | Wates Developments Limited |
Needspace? Limited | Wates Financial Services Limited |
Annington Wates (Cove) Limited | Wates Group Limited |
Linden Wates (Ravenscourt Park) Limited | Wates Group Properties Limited |
Linden Wates (Ridgewood) Limited | Wates Group Services Limited |
Barratt Wates (Horley) Limited | Wates Homes (Bracknell) Limited |
Liberty Park Management Limited | Wates Homes (Cambridge) Limited |
Wates Homes (Chichester) Limited | Wates Interiors Limited |
Wates Homes (Oakley) Limited | Wates Lancewood Estates Limited |
Wates Regeneration (South Acton) Limited | Wates Limited |
Wates Regeneration (Tavy Bridge) Limited | Wates Maintenance Services Limited |
Wates Second Land Limited | Wates PFI Investments (Projects) Limited |
Wates Staff Trustees Limited | Wates PFI Investments (QED) Limited |
WBH (Financial Services) Limited | Wates PFI Investments Limited |
Woodside Lands Estates Limited | Wates Regeneration (Coventry) Limited |
Woodside Lands Limited | Barratt Wates (East Grinstead) #2 Limited |
Woodside Lands Management Limited | Barratt Wates (East Grinstead) Limited |
Wessex Water Pension Scheme Trustee Limited |
Previous directorships:
QED (Slough) Holdings Limited | QED (Slough) Limited |
QED (KMC) Limited | QED (KMC) Holdings Limited |
WBBS (SRS) Limited | The Meadows (Uckfield) Limited |
WSP Group Limited | Wates Linden BR1 Limited |
The Burgess Hill Land Company Limited | WW (Paddington) Limited |
Westcity (QEC) Limited | WW (Kensington) Limited |
In respect of Huw Davies, there is no further information required to be disclosed under Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
For further information please contact:
Hydro International plc | Arden Partners plc | Newgate |
Tel.+44 (0)1275 878371 | Tel. +44 (0)20 7614 5900 | Tel. +44 (0)20 7653 9850 |
Michael Jennings, Chief Executive | Steve Douglas | Tim Thompson |
Tony Hollox, CFO | James Felix Ciaran Walsh | Robyn McConnachie Jasper Randall |
About Hydro International
Hydro International plc (AIM: HYD) (Hydro) is a global supplier of environmentally sustainable products and innovative solutions for the control and treatment of stormwater, wastewater and combined sewer overflows. Hydro's products use a range of advanced technologies including award-winning advanced vortex technology. Headquartered in Clevedon, North Somerset, Hydro also operates in the UK from offices in Ely, Cambridgeshire, as well as across the US from bases in Portland, Maine and Hillsboro, Oregon. The Group has a growing presence outside its core North American and UK markets in territories including: Ireland, the Middle East, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, the European Union, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Please visit the website for further information www.hydro-int.com
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