The Group Board

Angela Lane

Chairman

Since May 2007 Angela has worked as an independent director and advisor to private companies and private equity. She has 3 non executive Chairman roles: Huntswood CTC, the leading provider of outsourced customer services and consultancy to the financial services industry, Ansel Group, a Bridgepoint backed operator of low secure and locked rehabilitation facilities for the care of adults with personality disorder and complex needs and Fishawack Communications Group, a full service medical communications agency with teams in the UK, Switzerland and USA. She is also an independent director of Sembcorp Bournemouth Water, a regulated UK water utility owned by Sembcorp plc, on the investment committee of Altitude Partners LLP, a specialist private equity investor in SME businesses based in Southern England, the Regional Chairman for Coutts & Co in the Solent region and a Trustee for Sherborne Foundation which raises funds for Sherborne School.

Angela spent 18 years working in private equity at 3i having joined in 1989 after qualifying as an ACA at PWC. Her final role at 3i was as a partner in 3i’s Growth Capital business managing the UK portfolio. Angela has extensive experience of business and financial services, healthcare, travel and aviation, media and consumer and infrastructure.

David Brownlow

Deputy Chairman

Born in 1963, David graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic with a degree in Economics in 1986 and began his career with Thames Valley Police

In 1989 he moved into recruitment, working first with Hays Accountancy Personnel in South East England and, subsequently, with Douglas Llambias Associates in London. In 1996 he co-founded his own recruitment consultancy, Huntswood. In 1999 the business expanded its services and now trades as a business process outsourcer, specialising in the provision of resource-based solutions to address governance, risk management and compliance requirements primarily in the UK financial services sector. The group's services further expanded in 2008, with the creation of Conduit People Management, an ‘umbrella company’ to make more use of the back office services that exists in Huntswood.

In 2004 David led the sale of 30% of Huntswood to 3i. In 2009 he entered into an agreement to buy back the shares which was completed in the summer of 2011. Following this transaction and the buyout of David's co-founder the group is today owned by David and a number of his fellow colleagues.

In autumn 2005 David was named the national ‘Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year’ in the Ernst & Young / Sunday Times / Coutts Awards. In November 2007, David was named ‘Best Chief Executive’ at the Industry Awards Ceremony which recognises outstanding service to compliance and regulation. The ‘Best Chief Executive Award’, sponsored by Deloitte, is presented each year to a Chief Executive who has ‘excelled in leading their business in a manner that is compliant, profitable and enlightened’.

Having run Huntswood since 1996 David stood down as its CEO in November 2011 and became Deputy Chairman. He made 2012 a gap year and, with a friend, visited 31 countries; travelling 140,000 miles in the year.

Today his other business interests include running his own investment and trading group, Havisham Assets Limited. This has just acquired the majority of Astbury Marsden, a London based recruitment consultancy with offices is Singapore and Hong Kong - David is now Chairman of Astbury Marsden. Additionally, he is an investor in JSCsport - a sports media relations and sponsorship company and in OneSixty - a telecommunications firm. He is also mentor to two brothers setting up their own business. David is also backing a building project near where he lives to build new homes.

David is a strong proponent of social media and is actively taking part in a study on the commercial benefits of corporate social networking by posting updates on life as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Follow David on Twitter @DavidEBrownlow.

In an interview with The Sunday Times David was described as:

"A business professional with significant entrepreneurial experience of starting up businesses and growing them to maturity".

David has said "my business mentor taught me - in the Weinstock tradition - business is like a bucket, at the end of each day there needs to be more money in the bucket than at the beginning of the day: cash is king".

In his business experience David has:

• Built effective management teams to support and lead businesses
• Pitched to and sold to private equity / venture capital
• Secured £11million capital replacement deal with 3i and negotiated the buyback
• Negotiated the financial restructure and acquisition of a company
• Strong client relationship and customer delivery background

David says his business philosophy and achievements are based on:

• Providing business with strong leadership with consistent messages
• Making business flexible and nimble to meet the demands of customers
• Ensuring an unrivalled track record of delivery to customers
• Remembering that as well as customers, delivery and profit - business is about people and their careers and families - which to some extent means making work 'fun' for everyone engaged in the business
• Being able to make hard decisions, like cost reductions, which may conflict with other goals

Outside his professional life David works with and supports charities. He is working with HRH The Prince of Wales, providing Him support in a number of areas. At Dumfries House in Scotland, His Royal Highness has made David a Trustee. As well as working on the Trust, David is overseeing the development of 600 new homes next to the Dumfries House Estate at Knockroon and thanks to David's personal donation the Trust has started the restoration of the estate's four and a half acre walled garden, the largest in Scotland.

In addition David is working with The Prince's Foundation for Building Community and is a Director of The Foundation's commercial arm Communities Capital Limited.

David is a Patron of both The Prince of Wales Hospice in Pontefract and of the NSPCC 'FULL STOP' Campaign. He is also a keen supporter of The National Osteoporosis Society. He supports the education of individuals through his personal charitable trust, The Havisham Trust.

He is an enthusiast of horse racing over the 'flat' and has five horses in training with Andrew Balding (Kingsclere stables) - 'Mime Dance', 'Bishop of Ruscombe', 'mymatechris', 'Pool House' and 'Knockroon'.

His other interests include ballet, opera, swimming, cars and learning to play the piano. He is a member of the Reform Club, Groucho Club and Annabel's.

John Howard

Advisor

John is a special advisor to Huntswood providing the latest insight on consumer issues and regulatory changes. He is a former Chairman of the FSA's Consumer Panel and is a non-executive director of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority. He was appointed by the Treasury as a Commissioner to the Equitable Life Commission and was a member of the Treasury's Retail Financial Services Group.

He was a non-executive director of the Financial Ombudsman Service and holds a number of director roles in the corporate and charity sectors. Previously a BBC presenter, he is now a respected commentator on financial services.

Craig Coffield

Chief Executive Officer

Craig joined Huntswood in 2002 as Head of Transformation where he was charged with managing the large scale transformation of new business from Huntswood's sales to delivery functions, before taking on the role of Commercial Manager; managing a team that looked after Huntswood's key strategic accounts. In 2007 Craig was appointed to the Board as Commercial Director where he was responsible for all aspects of the Group’s commercial activity, spanning all sales, marketing and proposition-led initiatives. During this period the Group’s commercial activities more than tripled in size.

In 2009, Craig became the Group’s Chief Operating Officer where he took on the additional responsibility of overseeing three business units; Customer Services, advisory and People Learning & Development, an increase in leadership responsibility of 40 FTE.

Building on this strong track record, Craig was appointed as Huntswood Chief Executive on 1 December 2011, succeeding the firm’s owner David Brownlow, with chief responsibility for setting the company’s strategic direction and entering new markets.

In addition to being CEO of Huntswood, Craig is Group COO of the Huntswood Group and a Non-Executive Director of Conduit People Management and Conduit Accounting Services.

Prior to this, Craig worked at Deloitte (CSL) managing a section of their outsourcing business to the financial services sector. Before Deloitte's, Craig worked at Prudential, where he spent 13 years in senior roles in compliance, pensions and customer services.

Craig is married with a young family and when time permits follows most sports.

Matthew Bonfield

Chief Financial Officer

Appointed to the Board in 2010 as Group Finance Director, Matthew is responsible for all Group financial and legal aspects of the business. Having joined Huntswood in 2007, Matthew has previously held the positions of Head of Commercial Finance and also Group Financial Controller.

In addition to his current role Matthew is also a Board member and Finance Director of Conduit People Management, an ‘umbrella’ company providing temporary staffing requirements to third party specialist recruitment agencies.

Having graduated from Aston University in 2000 with a degree in finance and management, Matthew started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a chartered accountant working within the Assurance and Business Advisory Service. He subsequently moved into industry and has since gained a wealth of financial and commercial experience working within senior roles for EDS, O2 Airwave and Virgin Media prior to joining Huntswood.

Charles Owen-Conway

Non-Executive Director

Charles is an experienced corporate adviser having held a number of senior roles at NatWest / Royal Bank of Scotland, including secondment to government and head of corporate banking in the Thames Valley.

 Charles brings with him a range of proven leadership skills, change management experience and team-based performance improvement expertise.

He is Chairman of Clydesdale Bank, Milton Keynes and Chilterns Regions and a partner in Keystone Employment Agency LLP. He is the Independent Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Board and a member of Buckinghamshire County Council’s Standards Committee.

Tim Moynihan

Non-Executive Director

A qualified accountant, Tim Moynihan was previously Finance Director of four of Hays' recruitment businesses. Since leaving Hays in 1998, Tim has specialised as a non-executive director and advisor to fast growing recruitment and professional services businesses. These include Techpartners, Directorbank and Trinity Group Holdings. Currently he is non-Executive chairman of Change Recruitment Group and Astbury Marsden.