Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On April 13, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Accenture plc (the
"Company") appointed Alan Jope as a new director of the Company, effective April
14, 2023, upon the recommendation of the Board's Nominating, Governance &
Sustainability Committee. Mr. Jope will serve until the Company's 2024 annual
general meeting of shareholders, when he will be subject to re-appointment by a
vote of the Company's shareholders.
Mr. Jope, 59, is chief executive officer of Unilever. He joined Unilever in the
UK in 1985. Before being appointed as CEO of Unilever in 2019, Mr. Jope served
as President of the Beauty & Personal Care Division. He also worked in
leadership roles at Unilever in North America for 14 years and Asia for 13
years.
Mr. Jope holds a BA Hons in Commerce from Edinburgh University and graduated
from Harvard Business School's General Management Program in 2001. Recently, he
was appointed Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Mr. Jope has been appointed to serve on the Board's Nominating, Governance &
Sustainability Committee. He will receive the pro rata portion of the standard
compensation for service on the Board (currently $110,000 per annum) and the
Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee (currently $12,500 per annum),
based on the number of days remaining in the current director compensation year.
Mr. Jope may elect to receive his compensation in cash or equity, or one-half in
cash and one-half in equity. He will also receive the standard grant of fully
vested restricted share units valued at $240,000 made by the Company to
directors newly appointed to the Board.
The Company expects Mr. Jope to enter into the Company's standard
indemnification agreement for its directors.
A copy of the Company's news release issued on April 14, 2023 regarding the
appointment of Mr. Jope to the Board is filed as Exhibit 99 to this Form 8-K.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit No. Description
99 News Release of Accenture, dated April 14 , 2023
104 The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL
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