Asos has hired another Marks & Spencer veteran, as the online retailer appointed the retailers former finance director Ian Dyson as a senior independent director.

Dyson will join the Asos board in October, the online fashion group said yesterday, just weeks after M&S‘s ex-head of fashion Kate Bostock left the company after seven months.

The 51-year-old led the demerger of Punch Taverns from its managed-pub arm Spirit in 2011.