Kingfisher appoints new Group Finance Director and new Chief Executive, International
New appointments complete the Group’s senior management team
Kevin O’Byrne is appointed Group Finance Director with effect from 1 October 2008 and will join the Kingfisher main Board as an executive director on the same date. Kevin, 43, joins from DSG International, the electrical retailing group, where he has been Group Finance Director since 2004. He succeeds Duncan Tatton-Brown, who has been Group Finance Director for the last four years and who will leave Kingfisher in mid-October to pursue a new career outside the Group.
The second appointment is Peter Hogsted as CEO, International, responsible for Kingfisher’s operations in Poland, Russia, Italy, Turkey and China. Peter, 39, joins from IKEA where he is currently Chief Executive of its UK operations and also Chairman of IKEA in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland and Hungary.
