Costain appoints new non-executive director

Fiona MacAulay has been selected to become an independent non-executive director at Costain, effective from 6 April 2022.

She will be a member of the company’s Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees and chair of the Remuneration Committee at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on 5 May 2022.

She will take over from Jacqueline de Rojas who became Remuneration Committee chair on an interim basis on 12 January 2022 and will lead the review of Costain’s remuneration policy for 2023.

Prior to transitioning to a portfolio of non-executive and advisory roles in 2018, Fiona, a Chartered Geologist with over 35 years’ experience, held senior roles and board positions in the upstream oil and gas sector across large and small cap companies including BG Group, Mobil and latterly as COO of Rockhopper Exploration plc and CEO of Echo Energy PLC.

Dr Paul Golby CBE, chair, said: “We are delighted that Fiona is joining our Board. She is highly experienced within the resources and industrial sectors and has significant credentials in ESG which will be important in supporting the delivery of our strategy which is focused on decarbonisation.”

Fiona is non-executive chair and remuneration committee chair of IOG plc, senior independent director and remuneration committee chair of Ferrexpo plc and non-executive director of Chemring Group PLC. She was previously a non-executive director of Coro Energy PLC.

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