Experian non-exec improves his finances

Experian non-executive director Roger Davis has raised just over £700,000 from the sale of shares in the credit checking firm.

Davis sold 110,199 shares at 638.5p each. This leaves him with 110,000 shares in Experian.

Davis joined the Experian board at the beginning of 2007. He has an army background and worked for Barclays between 1997 and the end of 2005. In 2004 he was appointed to the Barclays board and was chief executive, UK banking.

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Davis was a director of aerospace parts provider Aero Inventory when it was placed in administration in November 2009. He joined the AIM-quoted company's board in January 2007.

Experian achieved underlying organic revenue growth of 1% in the last three months of 2009. The main growth is coming from Latin America with the UK in decline.

Experian intends to publish a trading update for the year to March 2010 on 15 April.

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