Former Kantar Deputy CEO Griffiths is New YouGov Chair

YouGov interim Chair Deborah Davis has stepped down from the role and from the Board, the company has announced. Her permanent replacement is Ian Griffiths, who joined the Board in September 2025 and is a former Deputy CEO of Kantar.

Davis joined the Board in June 2024 and was appointed Chair on an interim basis in February 2025. Griffiths (pictured) will take over as Chair of the Nomination Committee and will remain a member of the Audit & Risk Committee and the Remuneration Committee. He served as CFO and Deputy CEO of Kantar from 2020 to 2022, and also served as an interim CEO during 2021 after the abrupt departure of Alexis Nasard. Earlier he was CFO and COO of ITV plc for more than 10 years, after serving as CFO of publisher EMAP plc. He is currently an NED for BBC Commercial Ltd and an Independent Non-Executive Director for Stanley Gibbons Baldwins Ltd.

Belinda Richards, Senior Independent Director, said in a statement: 'On behalf of the entire Board, I would like to express our deep appreciation to Deborah for her exceptional leadership and commitment to the Company. Ian has already demonstrated the value he brings to the Board through his industry knowledge and wealth of experience and I am confident that he will continue to deliver this in his enhanced role as Chair.'

The news comes less than two weeks after the company announced that CFO Alex McIntosh was leaving the company after nineteen years, by mutual agreement, 'to pursue other opportunities'. He has been replaced on an interim basis by James Davies.

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