Nicole McCormack and Lois Day are joining the board as non-executive directors of the in-content specialist advertising company.

Browne, a former chief operating officer of easyJet, will join the construction group’s board as a non-executive director in September.

The pensions savings and life insurance group appointed Murray, who had been serving as a NED, to assume the role in September.

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Agreement sees the threshold reduced to 33% if boards agree rules to include executive roles in their gender quota calculations.

A recent webinar on board effectiveness discussed the mix of competence and courage required from non-executive directors.

Bason is finance director of Associated British Foods and chair of FareShare, the UK’s network of charitable food redistributors.

Smith is chief operating officer of World Fuel Services Corporation and a former chief information officer at IBM, Suncorp and Telstra.

Weedall was group HR director at Selfridges and Carphone Warehouse, and is currently on the boards of Dr. Martens, Stagecoach and Softcat.

Mackay is chief financial officer at pharmaceutical company GSK and is a former group finance director at HSBC Holdings.