Online fashion retailer Boohoo has announced the appointment of Sarah Murray to its board as a non-executive director. Ms Murray was previously founder of Inspop Ltd, owner of Confused.com, the online insurance marketplace before it was sold to Admiral Group and Buddi, a remote health and location monitoring technology business. She was also previously executive committee/PLC director's advisor to Travis Perkins.

"I am delighted to welcome Sara to the Company," said non-executive chairman Peter Williams. "Her experience in founding and developing successful technology businesses will be a great asset to the board. Sara's entrepreneurial spirit perfectly reflects boohoo's culture and growth ambitions and we very much look forward to working with her.”

Sara Murray commented: "Boohoo is a very exciting business and I am delighted to be joining the team at this point and contributing to the next stages of the company's development.”