Lesley Knox will be the new non-executive director at the Signet Group, the company said. She will assume her position with immediate effect. "On behalf of the board, I welcome Lesley as a non-executive director of Signet," Signet Chairman Sir Malcolm Williamson said in a statement released today. "I am confident that her broad experience will enable her to make a significant contribution to the Group."%%Some of her work profiles include being chair of Alliance Trust PLC since 2004, non-executive director of HMV Group PLC and Hays PLC since 2002, non-executive director of Galliform PLC between 2001 and 2007, and Glenmorangie PLC between 1999 and 2003, as founder director of British Linen Advisers Ltd. in 1999, and between 1997 and 1999 as deputy governor and then governor of British Linen Bank, the Bank of Scotland subsidiary.