Countryside Properties, a developer of new houses and apartments, announced the appointment of Douglas Hurt as senior independent director of the company with effect from January 1, 2018.Article continues below

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Mr. Hurt will serve as Chairman of the Audit Committee as well as a member of both the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Mr. Hurt is the Senior Independent Director of both Tate & Lyle Plc and Vesuvius Plc as well as a Non-Executive Director of BSI Group.

He is a Chartered Accountant and has significant financial experience, having served as Finance Director of IMI plc, the global engineering group, from 2006 to 2015.

Prior to this, Mr. Hurt held a number of senior finance and general management positions at GlaxoSmithKline plc, which he joined in 1983, previously having worked at Price Waterhouse.

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