Reckitt Benckiser Names New Investor Relations Director

Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc. (RB) appointed Richard Joyce as the new RB investor relations director, effectiveSept. 1, 2011. In this role, he will report to Liz Doherty, chief financial officer. To facilitate Joyce’s transition into his new role, Tom Corran, who retired from the RB investor relations role in 2008, will be returning to RB as a part-time consultant for the period of a year, effective August 2011.

According to the company, Joyce is well qualified to take on this new role, as he is currently director financial reporting for the group, a role he has held for three years. Previously, he was finance director RB Nordic region; prior to that, senior manager internal audit at RB. He joined RB in 2002 from PriceWaterhouse Coopers where he worked in both the Sydney, Australia and London, UK offices.