UK ingredients company Tate & Lyle has appointed Sir Peter Gershon as a non-executive director and chairman-elect.

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He will join the board on 1 February next year and will succeed Sir David Lees as chairman by the end of 2009, Tate & Lyle said.


Tate & Lyle said Gershon has had a “distinguished 30-year career” in the computer, telecommunications and defence industries. Between 1987 and 1999 he served as MD of STC Telecommunications, GPT and Marconi Electronic Systems. In 2000, he was appointed chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce.


Commenting on the news, Gershon said it was “an exciting time to be joining Tate & Lyle, following the significant re-shaping of the group over the last few years”.

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