Intercontinental Hotels : Retirement of Patrick Cescau as Chair; To be succeeded by Deanna Oppenheimer

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Patrick Cescau
Patrick Cescau has served as Non-Executive Chair on IHG's Board since 2013, and is Chair of the Nomination Committee. From 2005 to 2008, Patrick was Group Chief Executive of Unilever Group, having previously been Chairman of Unilever PLC, Vice-Chairman of Unilever NV and Foods Director, following a progressive career with the company, which began in France in 1973. Prior to being appointed to the board of Unilever PLC and Unilever NV in 1999, as Finance Director, he was Chairman of a number of the company's major operating companies and divisions, including in the US, Indonesia and Portugal.

He was formerly a Senior Independent Director and Non-Executive Director of Pearson plc and Tesco PLC, a Director at INSEAD, and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A.

Patrick is currently a Patron of the St Jude India Children's Charity and Member of the Temasek European Advisory Panel.

Deanna Oppenheimer
Deanna Oppenheimer will succeed the role of Chair at IHG on 1 September 2022. She is currently serving as Non-Executive Chair of Hargreaves Lansdown plc, and is on the Board of Thomson Reuters Corporation. Between 2005 - 2011, Deanna worked at Barclays plc where she was Chief Operating Officer of the UK business before becoming CEO of UK and Western Europe Retail Banking and subsequently Vice Chair, Global Retail Banking. Prior to this, Deanna was the President of Consumer Banking at Washington Mutual, Inc.

She was formerly on the Boards of Tesco PLC (as Senior Independent Director), Tesco Bank, Whitbread PLC, Worldpay, Inc., AXA S.A., BrooksSports, Inc., Vettd, Inc., NCR Corporation, Catellus Development Corporation, UNICO Group, Inc, and Plum Creek Timber, Company Inc.

Deanna is founder of CameoWorks, LLC, an advisory firm to CEO's of early-stage technology companies, and BoardReady. She sits on the private boards of Seattle-based Joshua Green Corporation and Slalom, LLC. Formerly, she was a senior advisor to Bain & Company, Inc.

Her non-profit roles include sitting on the global governing board for PATH, one of the leading global health NGOs, as well as other educational and arts organisations in the Pacific Northwest.

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