Bill Gammell to retire from Cairn Energy

Cairn Energy has announced that Sir Bill Gammell will retire as non-executive chairman at the annual general meeting on 15 May. He will be succeeded by Ian Tyler, who joined the board as a non-executive director in June 2013. Tyler was chief executive of Balfour Beatty from 2005 until March 2013, and holds a number of other non-executive positions including non-executive chairman of Al Noor Hospitals Group and Bovis Homes Group, and non-executive director of Cable & Wireless Communications and BAE Systems.