N Brown announces strategic director appointments

By

Barbara Santamaria

Published
Jan 16, 2018

Clothing retailer N Brown has announced the appointment of two new non-executive directors. Gill Barr and Michael Ross will join the board this week.

Barr is currently a non-Executive director of PayPoint and Wincanton, and a trustee director of Willis Towers Watson's master trust, LifeSight Ltd. She has also a wealth of experience leading senior roles at retail companies, having served as group marketing director at The Co-operative Group, marketing director at John Lewis and marketing and business development roles at Kingfisher.

Meanwhile Ross’ experience in big data analytics and AI for retail as the co-founder and chief Scientist of DynamicAction will help N Brown tap into new opportunities. He is also a non-executive director of Sainsbury's Bank, and sits on the commercial development board at the Turing Institute. 

He worked as CEO of N Brown-owned online lingerie retailer Figleaves from 1999 to 2006 and started his career at McKinsey consulting in the early days of the internet.

Barr will become chair of the remuneration committee and Ross will become the chair of the CSR committee.

Based in Manchester, N Brown Group operates several fashion brands including JD Williams, Simply Be and Jacamo.