Accenture plc 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.