Fonix Mobile plc, the mobile payments and messaging provider, announced the appointment of Carmel Warren as Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Carmel will succeed Lucinda Sharman-Munday, who will be stepping down from her role as Non-Executive Director with immediate effect to allow her to focus more on other interests. Carmel is an experienced public company finance director having qualified as an accountant with EY, before going on to spend 11 years with ExxonMobil.

She currently holds the role of Non-Executive Director at The Character Group plc, also chairing the company's audit committee. Previous roles include CFO of D4t4 Solutions plc, the AIM quoted data analytics business, and prior to that CFO of Celebrus Technologies Ltd, a customer intelligence software company. She has also held the role of interim CFO at Universe Group plc.