William Hill appoints new CFO

William Hill announced Monday the appointment of Adrian Marsh as William Hill's next Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He will join the company and be appointed as an Executive Director to the William Hill Board later in the year.

As announced on 13 January 2020, current CFO Ruth Prior will be leaving the company to join Element Materials Technology.

Marsh will join William Hill from DS Smith, an international packaging business where he has been Group CFO for the past seven years, during which time the company transitioned from the FTSE 250 to the FTSE 100. He is a Non-Executive director of John Wood Group and chair of its Audit Committee.

He was previously Group Director of Tax, Treasury and Corporate Finance of Tesco. Prior to this, he was European CFO at AstraZeneca and CFO, Global Building Products at Pilkington. He is a graduate of University College Cardiff and a Fellow of both the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and The Association of Corporate Treasurers.

CEO Ulrik Bengtsson said: "I am delighted to welcome Adrian to the Board. As a proven CFO of a FTSE listed company with M&A, deal execution and multi-sector finance experience in US & European markets, he will be able to make a significant contribution to William Hill in the enablement of the strategy and is a great addition to the team."

Marsh commented: "I am extremely excited to be joining William Hill at such a key time in the Company's history, and look forward to supporting Ulrik and the rest of Board in delivering their growth plans for the future."

The company said the effective date of Marsh's appointment to the Board and Ruth's departure “will be announced in due course.”