22 October 2020

DEVRO PLC ("DEVRO" OR THE "COMPANY")

Directorate Changes

Devro, one of the world's leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry, announces the appointment of Chantal Cayuela to the Board as an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2021.  Chantal will also become a member of the Audit Committee, the Executive Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee from that date.

Chantal currently leads the R&D and Innovation team for Kellogg's European business, where she has been a Vice President since 2018. In a broad-ranging, international, career working with global food manufacturers, she has helped to shape their commercial strategies through product innovation.  Her career includes a period of over sixteen years working in a variety of roles at Danone through which she developed considerable expertise in the successful delivery of customer-focused innovation.  She subsequently spent seven years leading the Group Bel's research, innovation and development during which time her leadership of, and approach to, product innovation played a pivotal role in reinvigorating the brand, enabling the business to grow beyond its traditional core cheese markets. Chantal is a French national and she holds a doctorate in Biotechnology Chemical Engineering Sciences.

Devro also announces that Dr Paul Withers, non-executive director, will retire from the Board on 31 December 2020.  Consequently, from 1 January 2021, Lesley Jackson will become the Company's Senior Independent Director.

Steve Good, Devro's Chairman, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Chantal to Devro's Board of Directors. She brings extensive experience of successful product innovation in international food manufacturing businesses and will add valuable skills and insights to support the development and execution of the Company's growth strategy. 

"On behalf of the Board, I would also like to thank Paul for his invaluable service as a non-executive director since 2011 and, particularly in the last year as the Company's Senior Independent Director, for his flexibility and contribution to the initiative to refresh the composition of the Board, completed with Chantal's appointment.  I wish him well for the future."

Nothing in connection with Chantal's appointment falls to be disclosed under LR 9.6.13.

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