Baroness joins St James's Place board
Wealth management group St James's Place has made a new board appointment as Roger Walsom announced his retirement.
The Cirencester-based company has recruited Baroness Patience Wheatcroft as an independent non-executive director with effect from 2 April 2012.
Her appointment comes as Roger Walsom, a non-executive director since 2005, said he would not be seeking re-election at the AGM in May and therefore will leave the SJP Board on 8 May.
Charles Gregson, chairman, said: "Patience brings a wealth of business, board and senior management experience and her appointment is an important further step in the ongoing development of the SJP Board. On behalf of the board, I would also like to thank Roger for his substantial contribution over the last seven years."
Baroness Wheatcroft, a member of the House of Lords and a senior financial journalist was previously editor-in-chief at the Wall Street Journal, Europe. She is the former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and was business and City editor of The Times between 1997 and 2006.
She has been a non-executive director of Barclays Group and Shaftesbury.
