Witts joins Imperial Tobacco board
Kingfisher’s finance director Karen Witts has been appointed as non-executive director of Imperial Tobacco, the owner of DIY chain B&Q said yesterday. Witts will join Imperial Tobacco’s board today with immediate effect, taking the number of women on the company’s board to three and meeting the target set out in Lord Davies’ 2011 report for 25 per cent of women on boards. Witts, 50, joined Kingfisher in 2012 from Vodafone, where she was finance chief for Africa, middle east, Asia and Asia Pacific – a division with more than £13.9bn of sales. She also previously worked at BT Group for more than 10 years where she became chief financial officer of BT Retail.