Fields Wicker-Miurin and Ruth Wandhofer to join Aquis Exchange BoD
Exchange services group Aquis Exchange PLC (LON:AQX) today announced Board appointments.
Fields Wicker-Miurin and Ruth Wandhofer will join the Board of Aquis as independent non-executive directors, subject to satisfactory completion of the regulatory due diligence and other processes currently under way, which are required by the AIM Rules, and approval at the next AGM.
Fields has a distinguished career with over 40 years’ experience as an executive in financial services, a social entrepreneur focused on leadership, and a non-executive director and committee chair of the boards of both global companies and government departments.
From 1994-7 she led the transformation of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the London equity markets while CFO and Strategy Director and from 2006-7 she was the only non-US member of the NASDAQ Technical Advisory Council. Fields was one of only six experts advising the EU Parliament on financial services harmonisation in the lead-up to the Prospectus Directive.
She currently serves as a non-executive director and member and chair of key committees of the main boards of BNP Paribas (the eurozone’s largest bank) and Scor (the world’s 4th largest reinsurance company) and is Deputy Chair of the Royal College of Art & Design.
Aquis intends, as part of its succession planning process, that Fields will take over the Senior Independent Director role from Richard Bennett.
Ruth has considerable financial services experience. Following a senior Executive career at Citi Bank she has served on a number of Boards as an Independent Non- Executive Director including the London Stock Exchange from 2018 to 2020 and currently Gresham Technologies Plc and Permanent TSB Plc in Ireland. At Aquis, Ruth will also sit on the ARCC and Aquis Europe subsidiary Board.