Experience

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  Kindred Group plc

  • Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

  • Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Audit Committee

    • May 2010 - May 2018
    • Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

    Supervisory Board member and Chairman of the Audit committee.Supervisory Board is responsible for Strategy and its members are appointed by the Nomination committee, made up of current major shareholders.As Deputy Chairman I am responsible for chairing all meetings of the Board and organising the Board agenda.As Chairman of the Audit Committee,I am responsible for overseeing financial reporting ,review of external and internal audit and management of Risk on behalf of the Board .

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  Impregilo Spa

  • Milan Area, Italy

  • Non executive director

    • Apr 2012 - Jul 2012
    • Milan Area, Italy

    Co-opted as Independent Director on to Board of Impregilo on recommendation of International Investment Funds to represent interests of minority following change of shareholding.Activist Shareholders,including short term hedge fund not represented, won battle for control of Board and the incumbent Board had to resign.

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  Parmalat Italia S.p.A.

  • Parma Area, Italy

  • Non-executive Director

    • Jun 2011 - May 2012
    • Parma Area, Italy

    Independent Board member and member of Commitee of Internal Control and Corporate Governance.Proposed by Assogestione,Association of Italian Investment Funds, to look after interests of minority shareholders.Following the takeover of Parmalat by Lactalis in 2011,Assogestione could not obtain sufficient votes to propose a place on the Board for 2012/13 and not reappointed at the agm in may 2012.

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  Metro International s.a.

  • Sweden

  • Non executive Director

    • May 2008 - May 2012
    • Sweden

    Supervisory board member,responsible for Strategy, and chairman of audit committee,responsible for financial reporting and risk and managing relationships with external and internal auditors.Board faced with major challenge of ongoing profitability across a range of countries at time of falling advertising sales and competition from new channels .moved from developed markets of Western Europe into developing markets of Asia and Latin America . Struggled to develop online proposition during this period and company taken private by majority owner kinnevik in may 2012.

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  Rightmove.co.uk

  • Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  • Non executive Director

    • Sep 2005 - Jan 2009
    • Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    I left kpmg in June 2005 and joined Rightmove plc as non executive director and chairman of the newly constituted Audit committee .At that time the company was preparing for IPO and eventually floated on the London stock exchange in April 2006 as the first digital IPO . As chairman of the audit committee ,I was responsible to the Board for ensuring good financial governance, that financial reporting was fair and accurate and financial risk was adequately managed in a young company in a period of rapid growth .Managed.

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  KPMG

  • Partner

    • Sep 1985 - Sep 2005

    Lead partner in ICE(information,comms,entertainment) business unit ,specialised in audit and advisory work for advertising and technology groups including