1 Report for Proposed Council Member
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Report for proposed Council Member appointment and reappointment The Nomination Committee (“The Committee”) received an overview of the Council members being proposed for appointment and reappointment at their meetings held between December 2018 and May 2019. 1. The Committee recommended the reappointment of the following individuals: Jean Church: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Rick Denton: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Brian Hall: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Roger Marsh: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Ellen Miller: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Sarah Soar: July 2019 - AGM 2022 Joan Stringer: July 2019 – January 2020 Paul Terrington: July 2019 - AGM 2022 2. The Committee recommended the ratification of the appointment of the following individual: Aidan O’Carroll: July 2019 - AGM2022 Biographies for each of the candidates are set out below: Jean Church MBE Jean Church is National Chair of the Institute of Directors (IoD), Wales. Director of My Business Lynq Ltd., a new business start-up, and an Ambassador for the Teenage Cancer Trust, she also sits on the Superfast Business Broadband Wales Panel and Commerce Cymru (Wales Social Partnership Unit). Jean provides senior executive mentoring through her own Consultancy Company. Jean has held Non-Executive Director roles together with a number of Director and Senior Executive roles in blue chip organisations prior to starting 2Win Consultancy Ltd. which she left in 2016. As Chair of IoD Wales, she has taken responsibility for promoting professionalism in business and focuses on better 1 directors, better business, better economy and better services. She was one of the first cohort in Wales to complete the Certificate and Diploma in Company Direction with the IoD. She is described as a driven, commercially astute, motivational leader and inspirational mentor. She has extensive experience of leading and developing teams in continuous improvement across multi-site retail, distribution and legal professional units. As a consultant she has worked across academia, manufacturing, distribution, property law, franchising, new start-ups, and professional institutes. Business re-organisation and restructuring has featured strongly in her commercial experience. She is passionate about the need for better understanding of governance, together with the role and responsibilities of a non-executive director at board level. She also believes that there is a need for senior executives to embrace digital exploitation at board level. Businesses that embrace technological innovation to optimise their productivity and success, both locally and internationally, will positively impact the country’s economy. She drives this message home as part of her IoD role to promote the high standards of excellence and professionalism within Welsh business. Jean’s reappointment as Council member is for three years until the AGM 2022. Rick Denton PGCE, MBA, STEP Rick has 30 years’ experience of leading UK and international financial businesses and managing development and change programmes in four major banking groups. In 2016 he completed a three-year assignment as CEO of a specialist family office business, Triangle Group, leading to their restructure. Now a director/NED working with family offices, their boards and specialist investment businesses to deliver on consulting or investment projects, he also locally chairs the Guernsey Banking Deposit Protection Scheme and is a director of Guernsey Electricity Limited. Through his employment with Coutts Group (NatWest), Bank of Bermuda (HSBC), Fortis and Barclays, Rick has considerable experience of board work in major corporations. As a leader of offshore private banking and fiduciary businesses, he has worked on the boards of private companies and regulated businesses including in the specialist areas of regulated investments, funds, pension funds, insurance, protected cell structures, property/hotels, intellectual property, social impact investments and technology. He has also worked with major family offices, participating in family boards and creating appropriate governance. As director and founder of Denton Lovel Associates, he has led consulting projects in strategic change, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, corporate governance, and training and development. 2 He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (now Institute of Financial Services), a Chartered Member of the Institute of Securities and Investments and a Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), having attained the Diploma with distinction. He has also recently achieved the Henley Certificate in Executive Coaching and the Institute of Directors’ Diploma in Company Direction. He is an expert speaker at professional forums and academic bodies covering strategy, planning, strategic marketing, trends in the development of global fiduciary businesses, Indian and Asian business developments and corporate governance for family offices. Recent and current assignments include: Director on the fiduciary company regulated boards of Barclays and of its PCC client structures. CEO for a family office group, establishing their presence in Guernsey, with their business focused on property and direct company investments. Chair of a Cayman based property investment platform owned by a Singapore based family office. Advisor and board member for a UK based property and fund group. Director and audit committee chair of the Global MENA Financial Assets Limited fund. Advisor to an Indian family office business on formation of their investment funds. International associate and advisor to the founder of a private equity investment business Director of JOIN IP Ltd, an Intellectual Property advisory business. Council member and international representative for the Institute of Directors, London. Director and audit committee member of Guernsey Electricity Limited. Chair of the Guernsey Banking Deposit Protection Scheme. Outside work, Rick is a keen sportsman as a county tennis and padel-tennis player, regular golfer, skier and sailor. He enjoys games of strategy and has played tournament level chess. He was Chair of the Channel Islands Lawn Tennis Association for 15 years and will become a national LTA councillor in 2019. He is Treasurer of the Guernsey Island Games Association charity and is a volunteer and fundraiser for the Guernsey Cardiac Action Group. Rick’s reappointment as a Council member is for three years until the AGM 2022. Brian Hall Brian Hall, Chief Commercial Officer for BHSF, has been instrumental in their growth; increasing turnover from approximately £12 million to £44 million during his time with the business. A Chartered Director, Brian 3 was awarded the prestigious IoD West Midlands Director of the Year title in 2015. He was later appointed to the IoD’s National Council in June 2016, and sits on both the Corporate Governance Committee and the Brexit Committee which examines its impact on UK businesses. In June 2018, Brian was appointed Regional Chairman of Institute of Directors in the West Midlands. Between 2010 and 2017, he has also served on the West Midlands Council of the CBI. In his career to date, Brian has assisted boards as diverse as social-lending businesses, environmental start-ups, as well as a non- league football club. He is a keen promoter of diversity, particularly supporting women in business, and the role professional development can play in helping Directors build their businesses. Brian’s reappointment as a Council member is for three years until the AGM 2022. Roger Marsh, OBE Roger Marsh has been Chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) since 2013 and during that time has led the LEP through a period of significant transformation, including securing the country’s largest ever Local Growth Deal with Government. Roger chairs the recently formed NP11 which brings together the 11 Northern LEPs to work with the Northern Powerhouse Minister to support the Government’s vision for the Northern Powerhouse. He also chairs the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund Strategic Oversight Board and the European Structural & Investment Fund Local Sub Committee. Before joining the LEP, Roger was Senior Partner at PwC and boasts over 30 years’ experience in the private sector. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for Services to Business and the Economy. Roger’s reappointment as a Council member is for three years until the AGM 2022. 4 Ellen Miller Ellen Miller is a Consultant and Executive Coach working with a range of organisations and business schools on executive and non-executive leadership and talent development, organisational culture and corporate governance. Ellen’s current portfolio is derived from her time in Finance and in Higher Education over a 35-year career. She started her career in Investment Banking with experience ranging from Corporate Finance/M&A, to Debt Capital Markets, Fixed Income Research and Divisional Management. She also headed Graduate Recruitment and Early Stage Training and Development at Lehman Brothers, Europe where she was a Managing Director until 2008. Ellen has worked at London Business School in a variety of roles since 2008 with Degree Students and Alumni. She ran the Career Centre for the School’s suite of Leadership Degree Programmes and was responsible for the career development of the School’s most senior and experienced students and alumni. She has served as lead coach for Executive Leadership for the Sloan Programme since 2018, working in close collaboration with Organisational Behaviour faculty.