Equiniti Group plc announced the appointment of Philip Yea as Chairman Designate. Philip has joined the board of the company from 03 July 2017 as a non-executive director and will succeed Kevin Beeston as Chairman when Kevin retires from the board in September 2017. Philip has been Chairman of Greene King plc since May 2016. He is senior independent director at Computacenter PLC, a non-executive director of Aberdeen Asian Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings) Ltd. and also an independent director and trustee of the Francis Crick Institute. He will retire as senior independent director of Vodafone Group plc at its AGM on 28 July 2017. Prior to joining Greene King, he was Chairman of bwin.party digital entertainment plc until the successful completion of its acquisition by GVC Holdings.