G4S appoints Barbara Thoralfsson as non-exec director

Security company G4S said it had appointed Barbara Thoralfsson as a non-executive director of its board with effect from 1 July 2016.

Thoralfsson will become a member of the board's nomination and remuneration committees, G4S said.

She was chief executive of NetCom ASA, Norway's second largest mobile network operator, between 2001 and 2005; and a non-executive director of Tandberg ASA, a supplier of video conferencing systems, from 2006 until 2010, Telenor ASA, a mobile operator in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, from 2009 until 2015 and Cable & Wireless Plc in 2015 and 2016.