As Company Secretary, Tory is responsible for all aspects of
Corporate Governance and compliance for the Group including its ever-evolving
portfolio of subsidiaries and joint ventures. Tory also oversees all aspects of
the Group insurance, data protection, risk management, management incentive
schemes and the capital approval process.
As Director of Shareholder Reporting, Tory has
responsibility for the provision of financial and non-financial reports to
Quintain’s parent, Lone Star, including short-term cashflow forecasting and
reporting.
Tory originally joined Quintain in 2005 as Head of Internal
Audit and has had a number of senior roles within the finance team including
Chief Operating Accountant and Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. As a
result of this Tory has an in-depth knowledge of and involvement in Quintain’s
financial systems, corporate structures and accounting, internal management
reporting, statutory reporting and operational budgeting and forecasting. Tory
was closely involved in most of the key corporate transactions affecting
Quintain in the last 13 years including various acquisitions, fund-raising
activities, disposals and joint venture partnerships, culminating in Lone
Star’s take over in 2015 and the subsequent de-listing, Group simplification
and refinancing.
Before joining Quintain, Tory trained as a Chartered
Accountant with Deloitte, qualifying in 1994, and gained valuable experience at
Eidos, the computer games company, and at FTSE listed brewer and retailer,
Fuller’s, where she managed the company’s transition to IFRS.