Pinewood Technologies Group PLC has appointed two non-executive directors to its board.

The provider of cloud retail solutions to the automotive industry said Shruthi Chindalur and Dr Robert Plant will join from 14th October.

Chindalur previously held senior leadership roles at Oracle, LinkedIn and Criteo, where she led commercial strategy, international expansion and business transformation across EMEA and the Americas. She most recently held a NED role at The Access Group for four years and is currently a NED at Bytes Technology Group plc and Kainos Group plc, in addition to her role as an advisory board member at FirstParty Capital.

Plant is the founding chair of the Department of Business Technology at the University of Miami and an associate professor at the University of Miami’s Herbert Business School. His innovative work is focused on AI. He has advised global firms including Polen Capital, the global asset manager, and currently serves on the advisory board of Arreva, a fundraising and donor management software business. He has taught executive MBAs across the world and is a frequent contributor on technology issues to publications including the Financial Times, Forbes Insights and Harvard Business Review.