Royal Mail boss Moya Greene gets on board early at Easyjet
Easyjet has appointed Royal Mail boss Moya Greene to its board earlier than planned as it speeds up the search for a new chief executive.
Greene, who had been poised to join the budget airline in September, will now take up the position of non-executive director with immediate effect. She will “support the chief executive search process” after it was announced on Monday that Carolyn Mccall is to join ITV in January.
In addition, Keith Hamill, who was supposed to retire from Easyjet’s board as nonexecutive director on 31 July, will stay on, also to help out with the recruitment process.
Mccall has headed up the low-cost airline since 2010, but she leaves the carrier at a difficult time for the sector in Britain, with Brexit storm clouds gathering over the travel industry.
The pound’s slide has meant fewer people travelling overseas and, more starkly, British airlines are at risk of being grounded unless ministers strike an aviation deal with the EU before March 2019.
Terry Pullinger of the Com- munication Workers Union, which represents Royal Mail workers, said: “It is extremely concerning, at a time when the business is facing huge challenges, that the chief executive of the company [Royal Mail] should have enough time on her hands to take another job.”
Mccall is taking over at ITV from Adam Crozier, who stepped down at the end of June.