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The UK financial services and outsourcing giant announced that it has appointed two employees as non-executive members of its board. Capita is the first company on listed on the FTSE 250 index to take such a step since the end of the 1980s, according to reports. Lyndsay Browne, a chartered accountant, and Joseph Murphy, a civil engineer and project manager in property and infrastructure, will join Capita’s main board on 1 July, and will remain in place for three years and two years respectively. Both the employees will keep their existing jobs but will receive training to perform their new role, for which they will regularly be given time off and will receive, in addition to their existing salary, a further sum equal to that received by other non-executive board members (£64,500 [€73,826] per year). Sir Ian Powell, Capita chairman, says: “We are determined that the employee’s perspective and increased diversity of thought are represented at board level. Lyndsay and Joseph bring very different skills, experience and insights. I have no doubt they will prove strong members of the board.” The duo were appointed after a recruitment procedure involving the group’s 63,000 employees, of which 400 put themselves forward for place on the board.
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