Hagan joins in January 2023 after more than four years as the chief HR officer at Tate & Lyle, where she played a key role in driving transformation across the global food solutions business. 

Before that, she spent more than 11 years at Dyson, fulfilling a number of roles before becoming Dyson's global HR director.

At Dyson, she led the people agenda as the company scaled globally and expanded its famous innovation & product categories. Earlier in her career, she was a management consultant at Arthur Andersen and founded her own headhunting & talent consultancy.

In her new role, Hagan will report directly to founder and CEO Ben Francis.

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