Trailblazing pair have played important role on outsourcer’s board in year of dramatic change
The pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of firefighting in Britain’s boardrooms, with directors forced to make big calls about the future of their organisations. So it is fair to assume Lyndsay Browne and Joseph Murphy did not anticipate the baptism of fire that their trailblazing stint as Capita’s first intake of employee directors would involve.
In 2019, Browne, a long-serving finance manager at the outsourcer, and Murphy, a civil engineer who advises on highway projects, won a fierce internal contest to become non-executive directors of the company. Nearly 400 colleagues applied to take on the roles, which pay £64,500 a year on top of their day job’s salary.
