LSL Property Services has announced the appointment of a new non-executive director.

Kumsal Bayazit will join the LSL board on September 1 this year. She will also sit on LSL’s nominations, remuneration and audit committees.

Bayazit has significant experience in strategy, technology, operations and sales and marketing, particularly in the professional information solutions sector. This includes her current appointment as chief strategy officer of RELX Group (formerly the Reed Elsevier Group).

She has previously held a number of executive technology and digital strategic roles including appointments as the executive vice-president of global strategy and business development for LexisNexis (part of RELX Group) and as a consultant for Bain & Co in New York, Johannesburg, Sydney, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Bayazit holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

LSL chairman Simon Embley said: “We are delighted that Kumsal Bayazit has agreed to join the board and are confident that she will make a valuable contribution to LSL.”