Bath Building Society has appointed Angela Cha, Robert Derry-Evans and Denzil Stirk as non-executive directors to strengthen its board and several of its committees. 
Angela Cha, pictured, is a solicitor with 24 years’ experience having spent the majority of her career at Pinsent Masons specialising in commercial legal and risk management advice in the financial services sector.
During that time she also held senior roles including integration partner, joint head of financial services and head of her practice group in London. She is now a consultant solicitor working with clients largely in the financial services sector. She also sits on two NSPCC committees and the membership committee of City Women’s Network. As well as the building society’s main board she also sits on its conduct committee.
Robert Derry-Evans, pictured right, was a partner in City of London law firm CMS Cameron McKenna for more than 20 years and was the firm’s managing partner from 1994 to 2001. He ran the CMS alliance of European law firms from Brussels and latterly Frankfurt from 2002 to 2008. 
He is now a director of 360 Legal Group, a Bristol-based legal consultancy, and of Bath-based OmniaLegal, which operates a web portal supplying commoditised legal services. He also sits on the board of trustees of Cobalt Health, a medical charity based in Cheltenham.
He sits on Bath Building Society’s nomination and remuneration committee.
Denzil Stirk, pictured below right, who serves as a member of the society’s audit and risk committees, is a chartered accountant with 30 years’ experience in financial, treasury and risk management gained as a management consultant, principally working with major retail and investment banks. In this time he has run projects in the UK, Europe and the Gulf States.
Bath Building society chief executive Dick Jenkins said: “I am pleased to welcome the new non-executive directors to our board. We have always looked to recruit high-quality individuals to our board and it has been gratifying that the society has been able to appoint a diverse group of new board members that are distinguished in their field with relevant experience. 
“I have no doubt that these new members will enhance the board and continue to provide a constructive challenge to an experience management team.”
Bath Building Society, which was established in 1904, services more than 10,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers.
In April it reported a 23% increase in annual pre-tax profits to £2.8m while its reserves increased by 11.5% to £21m. Gross mortgage lending was up by 25.1% to £38.6m, taking its mortgage book to a record of £210m.
