Burberry’s Philip Bowman joins Kathmandu Holdings board

Burberry has announced that Philip Bowman, a non-executive director of the company, has been appointed as a non-executive independent director of Kathmandu Holdings Limited with effect from October 2, 2017.

Bowman was appointed as a non-executive director at Burberry in June 2002. He was chief executive of Smiths Group plc from 2007 to 2015, and previously held the positions of chief executive at Scottish Power plc and chief executive at Allied Domecq plc.

His earlier career included five years as a director of Bass plc. He was previously chairman of Liberty plc and Coral Eurobet plc and a non-executive director of Scottish & Newcastle plc and British Sky Broadcasting Group plc.