Quintain's board draws together experts from several fields, including property, finance and corporate governance.
William RuckerChairman
Adrian Wyatt OBE Chief Executive
Rebecca WorthingtonFinance Director
David GavaghanExecutive Director
Maxwell JamesExecutive Director
Chris BellSenior Independent Director
Martin MeechNon-Executive Director (Independent)
Simon LaffinNon-Executive Director (Independent)
Charles CayzerNon-Executive Director
Peter DixonNon-Executive Director (Independent)
Aged 47, William is Chief Executive of Lazard London and a member of the Executive Committee. He was appointed as a non-executive director and Chairman in October 2009. William chairs the Nomination Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee.
He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a non-executive director of Rentokil-Initial.
Aged 63, Adrian established Quintain in 1992. He is a chartered surveyor and a financial analyst. Adrian is responsible for all areas of the Group’s strategy and is closely involved with all acquisitions and disposals. Additionally, he also leads the Group’s urban regeneration activities.
Prior to the formation of Quintain, Adrian spent 21 years at Jones Lang LaSalle where he gained extensive experience of tax planning and financial structures as a proprietary partner in charge of fund management and founder of its finance company. He is a member of the Risk Committee.
Aged 39, Becky was appointed as Finance Director of Quintain in 2001 and also has day to day responsibility for the Group’s activities at Greenwich Peninsula. She also chairs the Risk Committee.
She qualified as a chartered accountant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 1997 and worked as Financial Controller of Britton Group plc prior to joining Quintain in 1998 as Group Accountant. She held a number of roles, including Company Secretary before being appointed to her current position on the Board. Becky sits on the Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Aged 51, David joined Quintain in May 2010 as an Executive Director, responsible for Fund Management. Formerly he was CEO of Strategic Investment Board Limited (SIB) for six years. SIB advises Northern Ireland’s First Ministers on the government’s major infrastructure programme underpinning the regeneration of the two principal cities, Belfast and London~Derry.
Previously he was with DWPF, an advisory firm specialising in structuring and arranging project finance. Prior to that, David was a director of Hambros Bank, specialising in property and tax-based finance. David is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is a member of the Risk Committee.
Aged 44, Max was appointed as an Executive Director of Quintain in July 2011 and brings extensive experience in real estate banking and corporate finance to the Group. He is responsible for the Group's Wembley City regeneration scheme and for securing third party investment for our urban regeneration and fund management activities.
Before joining Quintain, he was Chief Executive of Lowndes Partners, LLP, a specialist real estate investment bank, which he founded in 2006. Previously, Max was Global Head of Real Estate at HSBC Investment Bank and a director of Lazard.
Aged 53. Chris joined the Board in September 2010. Until April 2010 he was Chief Executive of Ladbrokes plc and originally joined the Board of Hilton in 2000.
He is currently Senior Independent Director of GAME Group, and is on the Board of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board. Chris is a member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees.
Aged 53, Martin was appointed to the Board in July 2000. Since October 2005 he has been Group Property Director of Travis Perkins plc and Chief Executive of Travis Perkins Properties Limited. Prior to that he was Managing Director of Dixons Group Retail Properties Limited, part of DSG International plc.
Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is Chairman of the Group’s Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.
Aged 51. Simon was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2008. He is chairman of Hozelock Group, chair of the Audit Committee at Aegis Group plc and an Industrial Adviser to CVC Capital Partners. He served as a non-executive director and chairman of the Audit Committee of Northern Rock PLC, as part of a new board tasked with restructuring the bank, and as a non?executive director of Mitchells & Butlers plc. He was previously Group Finance and Property Director of Safeway plc
Simon is Chairman of the Audit Committee, a member of the Nomination Committee and a qualified accountant.
Aged 54, Charles is an executive director of Caledonia Investments plc and a non-executive director of Eredene Capital and London and Stamford Property plc. He is responsible for Caledonia’s property portfolio and was appointed to the Board in January 2010 under the terms of an agreement with Caledonia entered into in November 2009. Charles is a member of the Nomination Committee.
Aged 66, Peter has a broad range of public and private sector experience and is currently chairman of the Office for Public Management Limited, a member of the Broads Authority and a lay member of the Information Tribunal. He was previously Chairman of the Housing Corporation and Chairman of University College London Hospitals NHS Trust.
Peter was appointed to the Board in January 2010 and is a member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.
