LONDON – Reuters (LSE: RTR; NASDAQ: RTRSY) announced today that Edward Kozel will not stand for re-election to the Reuters board at the annual general meeting on April 26th .

His decision to stand down comes after seven years as a non-executive director at the company. Latterly he served on the remuneration committee, where his place will be taken after the AGM by another current non-executive director, Sir Deryck Maughan.

Ed Kozel is chief executive of CRIGHT, a director of Yahoo!, Symbol Technology and Red Hat Inc and a former non-executive director of TIBCO Software and Narus Inc. Prior to that he worked for Cisco Systems in a number of roles, most recently as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development.

Niall FitzGerald, Reuters chairman, said: “Ed Kozel has made an outstanding contribution over the last seven years to the life of Reuters and the Reuters board in particular. His long and distinguished experience in the world of technology has been enormously valuable to the company as was his work on the remuneration committee. We are sad to see him go, he will be missed.”

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