Executive with strong reputation in the City joins Mitie as its new chair
Outsourcing giant Mitie Group is to appoint a new chair with a “track record of creating shareholder value,” it announced today.
Christopher Rogers, currently chair of DIY chain Wickes, joins the Bristol-headquartered group with immediate effect.
He will take up the role at Mitie’s AGM on 22 July when Derek Mapp will step down as chair and leave the board after eight years of service.
As well as chairing Wickes’s board, Mr Rogers is a senior independent director at Irish food ingredients group Kerry.
Mitie, which was launched in 1987 and now employs 72,000 people working in tasks ranging from cleaning and security to maintenance, said Mr Rogers would bring significant board experience across a range of sectors having been also a non-executive director at petroleum firm Vivo Energy and Travis Perkins, the building merchants’ group.
In his executive career he was an executive director from 2005 to 2016 of hospitality group Whitbread, where he held the position of CFO from to 2012 and was then global managing director of its Costa Coffee arm from 2012 to 2016.
Prior to that he held senior commercial and finance roles at retail groups Kingfisher and Woolworths.
Mitie senior independent director Roger Yates said: “Chris has a strong reputation in the City with a track-record of creating shareholder value and will be a fitting successor to Derek Mapp, building on the market leadership foundations created during Derek’s tenure.
“On behalf of the board and all my Mitie colleagues I would like to thank Derek for the huge contribution that he has made over the last eight years.”
Chris Rogers added: “I am delighted to be joining the board of Mitie. Mitie has a highly experienced management team and I am looking forward to working with them and the board to grow and develop the business further and to continue to deliver value for all Mitie’s stakeholders.”
Mitie CEO Phil Bentley said: “Derek Mapp has been an inspirational chairman during Mitie’s evolution and its emergence as the UK’s largest technology-led facilities transformation business. I’d like to thank him for his wise counsel, strategic judgement and his ‘eye’ for creating value. He will be missed.
“Mitie is now a world-class company and I very much look forward to working closely with Chris, as we take the business forward and enter the second year of our facilities transformation three-year plan.”
