Sirius appoints Joanne Kenrick as non-executive director

Sirius appoints Joanne Kenrick as non-executive director

Sirius Real Estate has appointed Joanne Kenrick as an independent non-executive director, effective today.

Joanne Kenrick has had a commercial marketing career spanning over 30 years and has extensive listed, private and charitable board experience.

For five years until 2015 she was the marketing and digital director for Homebase, prior to which she was chief executive officer of Start, where she established and oversaw HRH the Prince of Wales’s public facing initiative for a more sustainable future. Joanne’s former roles include marketing and customer proposition director for B&Q and marketing director at Camelot Group plc.

She was previously a non-executive director of Principality Building Society for six years, during which time she was also a member of the audit and conduct risk committees. Joanne has a degree in law and started her career at Mars Confectionery and PepsiCo.

Joanne Kenrick is currently a non-executive director of Safestore Holdings plc; a non-executive director and remuneration committee chair for both Welsh Water and Coventry Building Society, as well as being deputy chair and the senior independent director for the latter; and chair of Switching Services Participant Committee and of PayM for Pay.uk. She is also chair of trustees of the charity Make Some Noise.