Capita appoints
Jonathan Lewis as new CEO
Capita plc (“Capita”) is pleased to announce the appointment of
Jonathan (Jon) Lewis as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from 1
December 2017, at which point he will also join the Capita
Board. Nick Greatorex, Group Finance
Director, will continue to lead the Company as Interim Chief
Executive until 30 November 2017.
Jon brings a wide range of executive and leadership expertise to
Capita, with proven experience in technology-enabled services
businesses, and a track record of delivering value from strategic
business transformations. His most recent role was as Chief
Executive of Amec Foster Wheeler until its acquisition by John Wood
Group.
Ian
Powell, Chairman of Capita said:
“Jon is a proven, successful business
leader with the ideal blend of experience to lead the
transformation of Capita. He brings strategic vision and a strong
track record throughout his career of growing high value,
technology-enabled services businesses through securing and
developing major client relationships in both the private and
public sectors. Jon's business and leadership experience combined
with an inspirational, collegiate style make him a great fit for
Capita. He shares my enthusiasm for the business and has the drive,
ambition and ability to lead Capita to a successful future.”
Jon
Lewis said:
“Capita’s leaders built a remarkable
track record over some 30 years, creating one of the UK’s great
growth businesses. Capita continues to have tremendous potential
given its strong long term client relationships, outstanding
talent, valuable technology portfolio and leading market position.
I have spent my career innovating and deploying services to enable
customers to have smarter processes and create more efficient
organisations, and that is Capita’s central proposition. I believe
there is a real opportunity to build a truly world class
technology-enabled services business from Capita’s embedded
foundations. There is work to do to complete the transformation of
Capita and I am determined to make the business and its value
propositions stronger for our employees, customers and
shareholders, and return this great Company to growth.”
Jon Lewis joined Amec Foster
Wheeler in 2016, following a 20-year career at leading,
technology-based, oilfield services company Halliburton, which
included 10 years working in, then running, the Landmark software
business, a leading technology solutions provider of data
management and analytics, science, software, and consulting
services for the international oil and gas exploration and
production industry. Jon’s strategy role at Landmark included
working with customers to define a vision for the role of digital
solutions in driving productivity, including early adoption of
leading edge technologies, including real-time data telemetrics,
immersive visualisation, big data and SaaS.
In his early career, Jon held a number of senior academic
positions at both the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College
London (NERC Research Fellow) and Heriot Watt
University, where he developed and managed a successful
commercial, contract research business primarily for the
international petroleum sector.
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For further information:
Capita plc
Tel: 020 7799 1525
Shona Nichols, Executive
Director, Corporate Communications
Andrew Ripper, Head of Investor
Relations
Media enquiries
Capita Press Office Tel: 020 7654 2399
Powerscourt Tel: 020 7250 1446
capita@powerscourt-group.com
Victoria Palmer-Moore,
Peter Ogden and Andy Jones
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may have qualified, as inside information for the purposes of
Article 17 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (MAR). For
the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing
Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is made by
Shona Nichols, Executive Director,
Corporate Communications, for Capita plc.
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Jon Lewis joins Capita from Amec
Foster Wheeler where he was Group CEO from 2016 until the
successful sale of the business to the John Wood Group.
Before joining Amec Foster Wheeler, Jon had a 20 year career at
leading, technology-based, oilfield services company, Halliburton.
He held a number of senior positions including SVP, Global
Completion and Production Division and Member of the Executive
Committee where he was responsible for six products service lines
with $21billion in revenues and
44,000 employees, and SVP, Europe/Sub-Saharan Africa where he was
responsible for all aspects of Halliburton’s business in the
geography, the company’s largest operating region outside
North America.
From 1996-2006, Jon held a number of senior roles at Landmark
Graphics, an innovative, B2B, software technology and consulting
services company, wholly owned by Halliburton with 5,000 employees.
This culminated in running the software business as VP, Innovation
and Marketing, Landmark Division (Texas), where he was responsible for the
Landmark Division’s strategy, research and development, innovation,
intellectual property, marketing, IT company strategic
partnerships, M&A and solution commercialization.
Prior to his commercial career, Jon spent a number of years in
academia. He was awarded the NERC post-doctoral grant for research
on reservoir characterization while at the Royal School of Mines,
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine where he
established and grew a commercial research group undertaking
studies for British Petroleum, Conoco, Shell and Statoil (1987-90).
From 1990-96 Jon was Principle Investigator and Conoco Lecturer,
Petroleum Geology at Heriot Watt
University, where he developed and managed a multi-million
dollar commercial research contract portfolio.
Jon holds a PhD (Geology/Sedimentology) from Reading University
and graduated from Kingston
University in 1984 with a BSc in Geology. He is married with two
children.
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As CEO of Capita, Jon will receive an annual salary of £725,000
(which shall not be reviewed until the last quarter of 2020 with
any increase effective as of 1 January
2021) and a pension allowance of 5% of salary. John will
also be eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan
up to a maximum of 200% of salary, and the long-term incentive plan
up to 300% of salary. All remuneration arrangements are consistent
with the terms of the Directors’ Remuneration Policy approved by
shareholders at the AGM in June
2017.
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Jon’s past directorships: CEO of Amec Foster Wheeler
(2016-2017); Non-executive director of CHC Group Ltd
(2013-2016).
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In accordance with the Listing Rules, there are no additional
matters that would require disclosure under LR 9.6.13 in relation to this appointment.
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Capita is a leading UK provider of technology enabled customer
and business process services and integrated professional support
services. With 73,000 people at over 450 sites, including 98
business centres across the UK, Europe, India
and South Africa, Capita uses its
expertise, infrastructure and scale benefits to transform its
clients' services, driving down costs and adding value. Capita is
quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information on
Capita can be found at: www.capita.com LEI no.
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