Jasmine Whitbread and Patrick Thomas were nominated for election to the Board of Directors. Their appointments are subject to the approval of shareholders at the 2021 AGM due to take place on the 8^th of September 2021. Both Ms Whitbread and Mr Thomas will serve as Non-executive Directors and become members of the Board’s Nominations Committee.

Ms Whitbread is an experienced Non-executive Director with a long-standing interest in ESG issues. She has a leadership and management background spanning marketing, technology, finance, media, telecommunications, and not-for-profit organisations. A British and Swiss national, Jasmine is currently Non-executive Chair of Travis Perkins PLC, a Non-executive Director of Standard Chartered PLC and WPP PLC, a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and an advisor to Richemont’s Governance and Sustainability Committee. She has previously served as CEO of Save the Children International and London First. Jasmine also served as a Non-executive Director on BT Group PLC where she was a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, and chaired the Digital Impact & Sustainability Committee.

Mr Thomas, a French national, brings more than 30 years of experience in the luxury goods industry. He was the first and only non-family manager of Hermès, where he served as CEO and led the group’s considerable development from 2003 until 2014, after eight years as COO from 1989 to 1997. Patrick equally held senior positions at Lancaster Group and Pernod Ricard. He is currently the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Champagne Laurent Perrier, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ardian, the Lead Independent Director of Teleperformance, a Non-executive Director of MycoWorks and a Non-executive Director of Shang Xia Trading (China).

Richemont also announced that Non-executive Director Gary Saage will not seek re-election to the Board of Directors in September. Mr Saage was appointed to the Board in 2010 when he became Group Chief Finance Officer of Richemont. Since 2017, he has served as a Non-executive Director and a member of the Nominations Committee. In addition, he is the Chairman of Richemont North America and a Director of Peter Millar LLC, positions that he will retain following the 2021 AGM.

In addition, Non-executive Directors Jan Rupert and Ruggero Magnoni have indicated that they will not seek re-election at the 2022 AGM, allowing time for an orderly handover with their successors on the Strategic Security, Nominations and Audit Committees of the Board.