Marks & Spencer adds digital clout to board with Shazam boss hire

LONDON: British retailer Marks & Spencer has beefed-up the digital expertise on its board by recruiting Andrew Fisher, the chairman of music app Shazam, as a non-executive director.

Fisher will join the M&S board on Dec. 1 and also take a seat on the group's nomination committee.

Fisher joined Shazam as CEO in 2005, growing the app that identifies background music into a global mobile service with over 750 million users across 200 countries. M&S said Shazam is now one of the world's top 20 apps.

M&S CEO Marc Bolland's stated strategy is to make the firm a multi-channel international retailer.

M&S also said that Martha Lane Fox will step down as a non-executive director next April, having served for nine years.