Lucy Neville-Rolfe quits 2 Sisters board

Less than a year after being appointed a non-executive director with 2 Sisters Food Group, Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has stepped down in order to take up a new post at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

As under-secretary of state for intellectual property, she will be responsible for the department’s business in the House of Lords.

2 Sisters chairman, Lord Allen of Kensington, thanked the baroness for “her good judgement, commercial skills and wise counsel”.

Lucy Neville-Rolfe, who was also made a Conservative life peer last year, said: “I am sorry to be leaving this growing and vibrant company. I have very much enjoyed contributing to its development and wish the company and its staff all the very best for the future”

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Baroness Neville-Rolfe joined the board at 2 Sisters in September 2013, having previously been executive director of corporate and legal affairs at Tesco for 15 years.

Prior to that, she served as director of the deregulation unit at the Department for Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and was a member of prime minister John Major’s policy unit in the early 1990s.

As well as leaving 2 Sisters, she has also relinquished a position as non-executive director of ITN with immediate effect, in accordance with the rules for an appointment to government.