G4S Annual Report and Accounts 2011

Overview Strategic review Performance
Governance
Executive management team
Nick Buckles
Chief executive officer
Nick has worked in the security industry for
27 years, focusing throughout this time on the
commercial and strategic aspects of all areas
of security services.
After a variety of commercial roles throughout
the group, he was responsible for driving
significant profit improvements in many
Securicor businesses throughout the 1990s as
a business unit managing director and divisional
chief executive of the security division. He was
also instrumental in the development of
Securicor’s security sector focus, becoming group
chief executive in 2002, and in bringing together
Group 4 Falck and Securicor to create the
combined group. Nick became chief executive
of G4S in July 2005. Nick is chairman of the Ligue
Internationale des Sociétés de Surveillance,
the international association of leading security
companies.
Trevor Dighton
Chief financial officer
Trevor has worked in the security industry for 26
years. After several years in both the accountancy
profession and commerce working in the finance
function and general management, he joined BET
in 1986 as finance director of its security and
communications division.
Trevor joined Securicor in 1995 and, following a
number of years as finance director of the security
division, he was appointed to the board of
Securicor plc in June 2002 as group finance
director. He became chief financial officer of
G4S in July 2004.
Trevor is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants.
Grahame Gibson
Chief operating officer and
Regional CEO – Americas
Grahame has been involved in the security
industry for 29 years, having joined Group 4’s UK
operating company in 1983 as finance director.
Since that time, Grahame has held a number of
operational, management and board positions in
the UK, USA, Denmark, the Netherlands and
Austria.
His broad experience of the security industry and
management of businesses across a diverse range
of cultures has been invaluable to the group
throughout its development. Grahame joined the
board of G4S plc in April 2005.
Grahame is a board member of the Ligue
Internationale des Sociétés de Surveillance.
Debbie McGrath
Group Communications director
Debbie is Group Communications director, heading
the corporate communications team which focuses
on the group’s key audiences – investors, media,
government, employees and customers. Debbie
has a broad range of experience in marketing,
corporate communications, brand development
and implementation, and crisis communications.
Prior to the merger between Group 4 Falck and
Securicor, Debbie was employed in a number of
senior marketing and communications roles within
the Securicor group from 1993 to 2004.
Before joining Securicor, Debbie had also held
marketing positions with ICC Information Group
and Honeywell Bull. Debbie is also chairman of the
CBI South East Regional Council (the representative
body for all CBI member companies based in the
South East of England and the Thames Valley) and
a member of the CBI Chairmen’s Committee
which takes the lead responsibility for setting the
CBI’s position on all policy matters.
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Graham Levinsohn
Group Strategy and Development
director
Graham has more than 18 years’ experience in
the security industry, having joined Securicor Cash
Services in 1994 as general manager – marketing.
Since then, Graham has held a number of
commercial and line management positions in
both the cash and security lines of business.
Graham was responsible for the creation of the
UK cash centres outsourcing business in 2001 as
managing director, before moving on to become
divisional managing director for G4S Cash Services
UK, and then regional president – Nordics.
He became group strategy & development
director in 2008 and joined the Executive
Committee in 2010.
David Taylor-Smith
Chief operating officer and Regional
CEO – UK and Africa
In addition to his existing role as Regional CEO,
UK and Africa, David was appointed as Group
COO in January 2012. In his new position,
David has responsibility for developing G4S’s main
service lines globally. David joined G4S in 1998
as managing director, G4S Hong Kong. He moved
back to the UK in 2002 and has held a number
of positions in the company, including CEO,
G4S UK and Ireland, and managing director of
G4S Justice Services.
Prior to joining G4S, David held senior roles with
Jardine Matheson, Project ORBIS and Operation
Raleigh. Before this he was a British army officer
and served in Northern Ireland, Germany, England,
Namibia and in Cyprus with the United Nations.
David has a degree from the University of
Southampton and is a Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society. He has also held positions
on the board of several charities, and currently sits
on the Public Services Board of the CBI. In 2003
he was awarded the MBE in recognition of his
charitable activities overseas.