Senior appointments at food ingredients firm
Food ingredients firm Tate & Lyle has appointed Dr Gerry Murphy as a non-executive director and chairman-designate of the company.
He will join the board on January 1 2017 and will succeed Peter Gershon as chairman on April 1 2017, following Gershon’s retirement on March 31.
Murphy joined Tate & Lyle from private equity firm The Blackstone Group, where he has served as chairman for its European division since 2008.
Gershon welcomed Murphy to the board of Tate & Lyle and was looking forward to working with him during the first quarter of 2017 as he transitioned to chairman.
“Having started my career in the food industry, joining Tate & Lyle feels like coming home,” added Murphy.