Board of Directors

 
John McAdam

John McAdam Chairman

Aged 62. Appointed Chairman in May 2008. Chairman of United Utilities Group plc and non-executive director of Rolls-Royce PLC, J Sainsbury plc and Sara Lee Corporation (USA). Formerly Chief Executive of Imperial Chemical Industries plc (“ICI”) from 2003 to 2008 and prior to joining ICI in 1997, held a number of positions at Unilever, from 1974, within its Birds Eye Walls, Quest International and Unichema International businesses.

Peter Bamford

Peter Bamford Non-Executive Director

Aged 57. Appointed a director in July 2006. Chairman of SuperGroup plc and MCPC-PRS Alliance Limited. Formerly Chief Marketing Officer and director of Vodafone Group plc having held senior executive roles at Vodafone, including as Chief Executive of Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa operations and Chief Executive of Vodafone UK. An independent non-executive director.

Alan Giles

Alan Giles Non-Executive Director

Aged 56. Appointed a director in May 2006. Chairman of Fat Face World Ltd, a director of the Office of Fair Trading and of Book Tokens Limited. Formerly Chief Executive of HMV Group plc, Managing Director of Waterstone’s, director of WH Smith PLC, non-executive director of Somerfield plc and Wilson Bowden plc. An independent non-executive director.

Andy Ransom

Andy Ransom Executive Director

Aged 47. Solicitor. Appointed an executive director in May 2008. Responsible for the Pest Control division and for the Ambius division and the group legal function and previously responsible for the group’s Asia-Pacific businesses. Formerly a senior executive at ICI (1987-2008) where he was responsible for a number of group functions and international businesses including ICI’s regional and industrial divisions.

Duncan Tatton-Brown

Duncan Tatton-Brown Non-Executive Director

Aged 46. Chartered Management Accountant. Appointed a director in July 2005. Chief Financial Officer of Fitness First Group Ltd. Formerly Group Finance Director of Kingfisher plc, having been previously Finance Director of B&Q plc and Chief Financial Officer of Virgin Entertainment Group. An independent non-executive director.

Paul Griffiths Company Secretary

 
Alan Brown

Alan Brown Chief Executive

Aged 54. Barrister and Chartered Management Accountant. Appointed Chief Executive in April 2008. A non-executive director of Intertek Group plc (from 15 April 2011). Formerly Chief Financial Officer of ICI (2005-2008) prior to which he held various corporate and operational roles in the Unilever group (1980-2005) including Senior Vice President Finance, Unilever Food and Beverage Europe and latterly Executive Chairman, Unilever China.

Richard Burrows

Richard Burrows Non-Executive Director

Aged 65. Chartered Accountant. Appointed a director in January 2008. Chairman of British American Tobacco plc. Non-executive director of Carlsberg A/S (Denmark). Formerly Governor of the Bank of Ireland and joint Chief Executive (and latterly a non-executive director) of Pernod Ricard SA (France) and Chairman and Chief Executive of Irish Distillers and a director of CityJet Limited (Ireland) and Mey Ìçki (Turkey). An independent non-executive director.

Peter Long

Peter Long Non-Executive Director

Aged 58. Chartered Management Accountant. Appointed a director in October 2002. Chief Executive of TUI Travel PLC. Formerly non-executive director of Debenhams plc and Chief Executive of Sunworld Ltd. The senior independent non-executive director.

Peter Long

William Rucker Non-Executive Director

Aged 47. Chartered Accountant. Appointed a director in February 2008. Chief Executive of Lazard & Co. Ltd in the UK, Deputy Chairman of Lazard LLC and Chairman of Quintain Estates and Development plc. Joined Lazard in 1987 from Arthur Andersen. An independent non-executive director.

Jeremy Townsend

Jeremy Townsend Chief Financial Officer

Aged 47. Chartered Accountant. Appointed a director in August 2010. Formerly Finance Director of Mitchells & Butlers plc, having been previously an executive at J Sainsbury plc where he held various finance roles including Group Financial Controller, Corporate Finance Director and Strategy Director. Prior to Sainsbury’s, he was employed by Ernst & Young, working in audit and corporate finance.