Janet Ashdown
Non-Executive Director
Janet has significant experience of general management primarily in the process and chemicals industries, as well as environmental and sustainability matters, and has chaired corporate Remuneration Committees for more than 10 years. Janet had a 30-year executive career at BP plc until 2010, running the UK retail and commercial fuel business in her last role there. She then became chief executive of Harvest Energy, an international private equity-backed business, until 2013. Janet is currently a Non-Executive Director and remuneration committee chair at Victrex plc, a non-executive director and chair of the remuneration and corporate sustainability committees at RHI Magnesita N.V. , a non-executive director of Stolt-Nielsen Limited and Senior Independent Director of Synthomer plc. She has previously served as a Non-Executive Director and Remuneration Committee chair of Marshalls plc and SIG plc, and as senior Independent Director and chair of committees including for health, safety, security and sustainability of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, a UK Government arm’s length body.
