Annual Report 2012 - Development Securities PLC

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Board of Directors
David Jenkins (67)
Non-executive Chairman
Joined the Board in February 2007 and
appointed Chairman on 15th May 2007.
A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales. Previously
a partner in Deloitte LLP, London, and was
Managing Partner of their Real Estate
Practice until his retirement in May 2004.
Senior Independent Director of MITIE Group
PLC and Non-executive Director of
Renewable Energy Systems Holdings Limited.
He is also advisor to several companies and
was a Governor of Downe House School until
November 2011.
Julian Barwick (58)
Executive Director
A Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors. Joined the Board in May 1998.
Formerly property advisor to the Bedford
Estate from 1997 to 2003, Chairman of the
Paddington Regeneration Partnership from
2000 to 2002 and Board Member of the
British Council for Offices from 1996 to 2006.
Appointed to the Board of London &
Continental Railways Ltd in 2005.
Michael Soames (61)
Non-executive Director
Appointed in August 2002. Previously
Surveyor to The Mercers’ Company, Group
Corporate Development Director of Regus
PLC and partner of Knight Frank LLP.
Currently a Non-executive Director of the ISIS
Property Trust Limited. A Fellow of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors and past
President of the British Council for Offices.
Michael Marx (64)
Chief Executive
Appointed to the Board in September 1994.
A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales and a
Member of the UK Listing Authority Advisory
Committee 2004 to 2007. Non-executive
Chairman of Nationwide Accident Repair
Services PLC.
Matthew Weiner (41)
Executive Director
Appointed in March 2004. A Member of the
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Joined Development Securities PLC in
November 2000 as Director of Investments.
Trustee of the Manor House Trust.
Sarah Bates (53)
Non-executive Director
Appointed in January 2010. Currently a
Non-executive Director of St James’s Place
PLC, and of four listed investment companies,
an advisor to several pension and charitable
funds and is Chairman of the Stena Line (UK)
Pension Scheme and the Association of
Investment Companies. Former CEO of
Invesco Asset Management’s UK institutional
business until 2003.
Graham Prothero (50)
Finance Director
Appointed in November 2008. A Member of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales. From 2001 until 2008
a partner with Ernst & Young LLP. Previously
Finance Director of Blue Circle Properties and
Finance Director of Taylor Woodrow’s UK
housebuilding.
Victoria Mitchell (61)
Non-executive Director
Appointed in August 2002. Currently
Consultant Director to Savills PLC,
Non-executive Deputy Chairman of The
Berkeley Group Holdings PLC and
Non-executive Director of The Golding Group
(South Africa), London First and Lennox LLP.
Formerly an Executive Director of Savills PLC
from 1988 to 2000.
Nicholas Thomlinson (59)
Non-executive Director
Appointed in January 2012. A Member of
the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Currently Senior Partner and Chairman of
the Knight Frank Group.
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