Hargreaves Lansdown plc (HL) today confirmed that Amy Stirling, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of HL, has been appointed to the Board of Next plc as an independent Non-Executive Director with effective from April 2, 2024.

Amy Stirling has significant financial and strategic leadership experience in client facing businesses across the telecommunications and financial services sectors. She has considerable transformation and M&A experience at both executive and non-executive level and is a qualified chartered accountant.

Ms Stirling was previously Chief Financial Officer of the Virgin Group and other previous appointments include non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee at RIT Capital Partners plc, non-executive director at Virgin Money UK plc, Chief Financial Officer of The Princes Trust and Chief Financial Officer at TalkTalk Telecom Group Plc.