KPMG has 50% women on board
KPMG has joined EY in achieving gender parity on its UK board with the election of two more women members
They are Melissa Geiger, head of international tax and tax policy, and Linda Main, head of KPMG’s UK capital markets group. Both were elected by the partners and will join the board on 1st October.
Commenting on their election, KPMG UK chairman Bill Michael said, “I’m delighted that Melissa and Linda are joining our board at an important time for our profession and our firm. Both bring a huge amount of experience and sector knowledge to the board and I am confident they will represent the interests of the partnership at the highest level.
“I’m also pleased that the results of this election have created an equal gender split on our board.”
Geiger comes from a financial services, corporates and national markets background. In recent years, she has spent time at Standard Chartered Bank and latterly at GlaxoSmithKline as global head of tax.
Main is an ICAEW chartered accountant and has more than 30 years of experience at KPMG. During that time, she has been a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Listing Authority Advisory Panel, and she currently sits on the advisory panel for the “Future 50”, a government-backed programme to support technology companies.
They will replace Christine Hewson whose tenure as one of the partnership’s elected board member has come to an end.
In June, EY appointed Justine Belton to its UK LLP board and Tonia Lovell as a UK independent non-executive. Belton's appointment brought the number of positions on the board held by women to six out of 10.
PwC’s board, which is headed by chairman and senior partner Kevin Ellis, boasts eight men and four women members, while Richard Houston, senior partner and chief executive at Deloitte, leads a board of nine men and five women.
Originally published in Economia on 11 September 2019.