Gooding engineers move to Premier Farnell
Val Gooding, the former chief executive of healthcare group BUPA, has been appointed chairman of engineering services group Premier Farnell in a major coup for campaigners pushing for women to break the glass ceiling.
Val Gooding: Will be paid £150,000 a year
Gooding joins chief executive Harriet Green, making Premier one of only a few UK listed companies with a top female team.
Others include Alliance Trust, where Katherine Garrett-Cox is chief executive and Lesley Knox is chairman, and Burberry which has a woman chief executive - Angela Ahrends - and a female finance director, Stacey Cartwright.
Publishing group Pearson is another firm run by senior women, with Dame Marjorie Scardino as chief executive and Rona Fairhead at the Financial Times.
Premier shares, which went ex-dividend, dropped 12p to 288.4p.
Gooding, who will be paid £150,000 a year, will continue as a non-executive of Standard Chartered but will stand down from J Sainsbury's board in July.
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