Smith & Nephew plc Appoints Group Strategy & Business Development Director LONDON, October 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smith & Nephew plc (LSE:SNLSE: NYSE:LSE:SNN), is pleased to announce that Sarah Byrne-Quinn has joined the company as Group Director, Strategy & Business Development. Reporting to Sir Christopher O'Donnell, Chief Executive, Sarah will be based in London and responsible for leading Smith & Nephew's International business development and her role will include working closely with senior management to develop the company's overall strategy. Ms Byrne-Quinn, has previously worked in the US and UK with Ameritech, Merrill Lynch, NatWest Markets and Robert Fleming leading and managing a number of successful strategic initiatives and international mergers and acquisitions. Most recently she was Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Cable & Wireless, where she led the corporate strategy and business development functions. Smith & Nephew has made three acquisitions this year: MMT, the Birmingham Hip-Resurfacing implant company for its orthopaedics business; Reed Medical, an audio visual systems integrator to strengthen its endoscopic digital operating room business; and Versajet, a water-jet wound de-brider product for the advanced wound management business. Commenting on this appointment, Sir Christopher O'Donnell said: "We are very pleased that Sarah has joined the Smith and Nephew team -- we are looking forward to utilising her broad experience of mergers and acquisitions and business development. Smith & Nephew continues to grow both organically as well as through acquisitions and Sarah's background is an ideal fit to join our team as we take this strategy forward." DATASOURCE: Smith & Nephew plc CONTACT: Contacts:Liz Hewitt, Group Director of Corporate Affairs, London, , +44(0)20-7960-2256, Angie Craig, Vice President, US Investor and Media Relations, , +1-901-399-5161

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