EasyJet board member steps down over her Wirecard role

An easyJet board member has resigned following scrutiny over her role at Wirecard, the collapsed German payments company.  Anastassia Lauterbach quit on Monday as a non-executive director of the low-cost carrier with immediate effect after less than two years’ service.  Her exit came days after influential shareholder advisory group ISS questioned her place on the board, given that she had been a member of the supervisory board of Wirecard, the scandal-hit German company that filed for insolvency in June after revealing a multiyear fraud and a E1.9b hole in its accounts. Lauterbach had joined Wirecard’s supervisory board in 2018. As a non-executive director, she chaired the newly created risk and compliance committee that pushed to improve Wirecard’s internal controls and governance. People familiar with the discussions on Wirecard’s supervisory board said that Lauterbach had been internally calling for the dismissal of Wirecard’s chief executive officer Markus Braun and its operating officer Jan Marsalek months before the company collapsed. She stayed on the supervisory board until it dissolved itself this summer after Wirecard’s insolvency.<br/>