Lucinda Riches joins CRH board as non-executive director

CRH, the Irish construction materials giant, has announced the co-option to its board of Lucinda Riches as a non-executive director. Ms Riches, 53, a British citizen, is a non-executive director of UK Financial Investments Limited, which manages the UK Government’s investments in financial institutions. She is a non-executive director of Diverse Income Trust, Graphite Enterprise Trust, the British Standards Institution and a non-executive member of the partnership board of King & Wood Mallesons. She is a
Quarry Products / February 18, 2015

RSS723 CRH, the Irish construction materials giant, has announced the co-option to its board of Lucinda Riches as a non-executive director.

Ms Riches, 53, a British citizen, is a non-executive director of UK Financial Investments Limited, which manages the UK Government’s investments in financial institutions.  She is a non-executive director of Diverse Income Trust, Graphite Enterprise Trust, the British Standards Institution  and a non-executive member of the partnership board of King & Wood Mallesons.  She is also a trustee of Sue Ryder.

Riches spent the majority of her career in investment banking, including 21 years in UBS Investment Bank and its predecessor firms where she worked until 2007.  She held senior management positions in the UK and the US, including Global Head and Chairman of UBS’ Capital Markets Group and Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Division.

The holder of a Master’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Brasenose College, Oxford and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, Riches will begin her new role at CRH on 1 March 2015.

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