Remuneration committee

The remuneration committee is responsible for determining the contract terms, remuneration and other benefits for executive directors, including performance-related bonus schemes. The committee comprises W J C Douie and A Bailey. It is chaired by W J C Douie. However, W J C Douie is not involved in determining his own remuneration.

Audit committee

The audit committee comprises W J C Douie and A Bailey, and is chaired by W J C Douie. The committee meets as necessary to monitor the Group’s internal control systems and major accounting and audit related issues.

William Douie
Group Executive Chairman

After two years in export sales, commencing in 1962, with British Oxygen, he moved into banking with Midland Bank and qualified as an associate of the Institute of Bankers. In 1969 he moved into Merchant Banking, joining Keyser Ullmann Limited and spent six years in Investment Management before joining the Bank Board in 1975. In 1981, following the merger of Keyser Ullmann and Charterhouse Japhet, he left to buy out, and become Chairman of, the Group's Instalment Credit subsidiary, Broadcastle Plc, and to become Chairman of British Benzol Limited, a fully listed company in the solid fuel industry. Following the acquisition by Broadcastle of Harton Securities Limited, he oversaw the merger of Broadcastle Plc and ATA Selection Plc, a USM listed recruitment company, before becoming Chairman of the Group in 1990. He joined with Clive Chapman in 1992 to purchase the ailing ATA Recruitment business from the group, and remains Executive Chairman.

Andrew Pendlebury
Chief Executive Officer

Andy brings with him a wealth of Industry experience having held a number of senior management positions during his long career with British Aerospace Plc. In 1992 he joined the Board of Wynnwith Engineering and was appointed Managing Director in 1995 establishing the business as one of the United Kingdom's fastest growing recruitment businesses. In 2002 Andy joined GKN Plc as interim Managing Director of the company's in-house recruitment business Engage and guided it through the Board's divestment strategy. From 2004 to 2007 he has, as Chief Executive, engineered a trading turnaround and subsequent sale to the Morson Group of White & Nunn Holdings. Andy is a member of the Institute of Management and a member of the Institute of Directors, attended Manchester University through to post graduate and studied at Cranfield Business School and London Business School gaining qualifications in Business Negotiation, Management Studies and Strategy formulation. 

Andrew Bailey
Chief Operating Officer

Andrew spent five years with a provincial accounting practice, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in June 1982, when he moved to KPMG. Having progressed to departmental manager within a general department, working on audit, accounting, tax, reporting and investigation work, Andrew left in 1987 to join Eagle Trust plc as a divisional financial controller. In 1990 he joined Sanderson CFL Ltd, a computer software and services business, as Finance Director. Andrew was appointed Managing Director of Sanderson CFL Ltd in 1993 and also held a number of non-executive roles within the Sanderson Group.