STM Group Plc announced the appointment of Duncan Crocker as Non-Executive Chairman, with immediate effect. Duncan has spent his entire working career in the UK financial services industry, the last 20 years of which being spent reporting in at group board level in a FTSE 100 group. He has extensive experience across a broad range of customer and distribution sectors. He left full-time executive employment in 2014, following 37 years served across various leadership roles at Legal and General Group plc ("L&G").Duncan was latterly managing director of L&G's UK intermediated housing /mortgage sector business, having previously headed up L&G's UK Intermediary and banking distribution divisions. In his current non-executive career he has provided guidance and advisory as an independent non-executive director to a number of businesses, from Zurich Intermediary Group Limited. Duncan also acts as an adviser to a number of fledgling fin-tech start-up businesses.