Board of Directors

He is an advisory board member of Leaders’ Quest, a social enterprise that develops leaders from diverse backgrounds. After five years in manufacturing with RTZ and Black & Decker Alan spent 30 years in the private equity industry, firstly with 3i, then from 1991 to 2011 with Bridgepoint, where he was a founding partner. Since 2011 he has been an independent chairman of various companies including Leeds Bradford Airport and Porterbrook, a train leasing company. Alan is a graduate of the University of Liverpool and holds an MBA from Manchester Business School.

He joined the Group as President and Head of French Operations following the Mentmore acquisition in 2004. Frederic became Chief Executive Officer of the Group in September 2013.

prior to which he held the positions of director of finance and investor relations at TUI Travel PLC and chief financial officer at Virgin Entertainment Group in the US. Andy began his career at Ernst & Young, where he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1992. Andy is a graduate of the University of Birmingham.

Ian joined the Board in October 2013 as a Non-Executive Director and was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee in April 2014 and Senior Independent Director in March 2015. Previously Ian was a senior partner and vice-chairman at Deloitte until his retirement in 2012.

Previously Joanne was chief executive officer of Start, a Prince of Wales charity. She was marketing director at Homebase, marketing and customer proposition director at B&Q and marketing director at Camelot Group plc. Until September 2015 Joanne was a non-executive director of Principality Building Society, where she was also a member of the audit and conduct risk committees. Joanne has a law degree and started her career at Mars Confectionery and PepsiCo.

Previously Claire was group HR director of the Priory Group and, at Carpetright plc, she served as group human resources director from 2006 and as operations director UK from 2011. She also served as its people and customer director. She began her career in Selfridges, and has worked in many retail businesses including Tesco and Boots and has experience in the B2B sector with RAC plc.

Bill is a chartered accountant with over 30 years’ experience with residential and commercial development companies such as Alfred McAlpine, Barratt and the Rutland Group. He joined St Modwen Properties PLC in 2000 as finance director and was subsequently appointed managing director in 2003 and chief executive in 2004, and he retired from this role in November 2016.