SiteMinder Limited announced that Michael Ford has retired from his position as a Non-Executive Director of SiteMinder, effective from the close of business on 14 February 2023. Mike co-founded SiteMinder more than 15 years ago and, in his previous role as CEO, helped develop SiteMinder into a leading hotel software provider that services 36,600 hoteliers spanning more than 150 countries. Mike handed over the position of CEO to Sankar Narayan in 2019 and remained on the Board through the company's initial public offering in 2021.

Having seen the company achieve a return to pre-covid revenue growth levels of 30% during the last 12 months, Mike has decided to step down as a Non-Executive Director to pursue other interests. Mike will continue to lend his expertise to SiteMinder under the consultancy agreement signed on 3 May 2022, advising management as an industry expert on strategy and other key business functions. SiteMinder's Board, led by independent Chair Pat O'Sullivan, is well balanced between its two long-serving non-executive directors, who each have valuable corporate history to contribute, its CEO, Sankar Narayan, and its three relatively newer independent directors, who bring fresh ideas and perspectives shaped by their experience as entrepreneurs, sitting on other company boards and in senior executive roles.