Outgoing Bupa Group CEO Evelyn Bourke is to join Marks & Spencer as a non-executive director next year.
Bourke (pictured left) is due to retire from her current role at Bupa at the end of 2020 and is being succeeded by Iñaki Ereño (right), currently the CEO of Bupa Europe and Latin America.
Bourke held a near fiv-year tenure as CEO of Bupa. She also has extensive experience in financial services, risk and capital management and mergers and acquisitions, having spent three and a half years as Bupa’s chief finance officer and in leadership roles at the Bank of Ireland, Standard Life and Friends Provident.
M&S chairman Archie Norman said: “I am delighted to welcome Evelyn to the board. She is extremely smart, has highly relevant experience and her appointment further strengthens and broadens the Board, who remain closely engaged with the executive team.”
Bourke will continue to serve as a non-executive director of London First and the Bank of Ireland Group, and as a member of the Bank’s Audit and Nomination and Governance Committees.
In addition, she was a director of IFG Group plc from August 2011 to August 2016 where she served as the chair to the Risk Committee and was a member of the Audit Committee.