Publishing firm Informa Plc has announced that Stephen Carter will take up the role of Group Chief Executive with effect from January 1, 2014. Carter succeeds current Chief Executive Peter Rigby, who will retire from the company.
Carter, who has been an Informa board director since 2010, was formerly President/Managing Director EMEA and President/Managing Director Global Managed Services at Alcatel-Lucent, the telecommunications and technology group. Before joining Alcatel-Lucent, he worked in a number of senior roles in the media and communications sector, including serving a term as the Founding Chief Executive of Ofcom, the UK Communications Industry Regulator.
The company also announced that Adam Walker, Group Finance Director, will leave the company. Walker has been Informa's Finance Director since March 2008.
In addition, the company announced that Geoffrey Cooper has been appointed as Chair of the Remuneration Committee, succeeding Pamela Kirby, who has decided to step down, also effective January 1.
The company noted that Rigby, in line with his contractual entitlements, will receive a bonus equivalent to 100 percent of his base salary for the financial year ended December 31, 2013. Informa said that as a good leaver under the provisions of the Long-Term Incentive Plan and the Deferred Share Bonus Plan, Rigby has received a pro-rata vesting of 61,763 shares and all his 41,541 deferred share bonus plan shares. In addition 927 shares will be released from the Share Incentive Plan after December 31, 2013.
Rigby first joined Informa in 1983 and has served as Chief Executive or Executive Chairman since 1988.
