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Ross McEwan CBE and Dina Knight will join the QinetiQ board on 1 March 2024, drawing on their extensive experience across the corporate world.
McEwan joins the board building on experience as chief executive officer and managing director of National Australia Bank Limited (NAB) and, as recently announced, will retire from NAB on 1 July 2024.
Prior to joining the QinetiQ board, Ross has been CEO and MD of NAB since December 2019. He joined NAB from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) where he served as RBS Group CEO from 2013 to 2019 and CEO UK Retail from 2012 to 2013.
Prior to these appointments, Ross held the positions of group executive for retail banking services and executive general manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), during which time he was responsible for its branch network, contact centres, and third-party mortgage brokers.
Neil Johnson, chair of QinetiQ, welcomed both McEwan and Knight, saying, “Ross brings extensive global business experience at the highest level and his successful track record is recognised in both the UK, where as CEO he transformed RBS/NatWest, and in Australia, where since late 2019 he has been CEO of NAB. His intimate knowledge and understanding of the Australian market will be particularly advantageous.
“Equally, I am delighted that Dina will be joining the board, to eventually succeed Susan Searle. Dina is a seasoned HR professional but will also bring a broad spectrum of corporate strategic experience to the role. I’m grateful to Susan for agreeing to remain as chair of QinetiQ’s remuneration committee, in order to provide an extended handover to Dina before standing down,” Johnson added.
Knight is currently the chief people officer of global technology services and solutions provider Datatec Group and Logicalis International, accountable for its people operations and strategy.
Datatec is an international IT solutions and services company, listed on the Johannesburg Stock exchange with revenues of over $5 billion and over 11,000 employees. Logicalis is one of Datatec’s three business divisions and is itself a global corporation with over 4,000 employees. Knight is accountable for people operations strategy from board level down.
Johnson added, “I am delighted to be able to announce these two significant appointments, both of which will further strengthen the breadth and depth of skills we have on the board. Their experience will be invaluable as QinetiQ continues to successfully deliver its strategy while remaining focused on serving the national security interests of our customers in the UK, US, and Australia.”
QinetiQ is an integrated global defence and security company focused on mission-led innovation, employing more than 8,500 highly skilled workers across the world.
