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richard jewson non executive director

Richard Jewson, 68, joined the board of Eastern Counties Newspapers Group Limited (ECNG) in 1982 as a non-executive director and became Chairman in 1996.

After running Jewson, the timber and building merchant, for 12 years, he held the position of Managing Director, and then Chairman, of its holding company, Meyer International Plc, until he retired in 1993. Subsequently he was Chairman of Savills Plc for 10 years and Deputy Chairman of awg plc.

He is currently a director of Temple Bar Investment Trust Plc, Grafton Group plc, Raven Russia Limited and a number of other unquoted companies.

He is HM Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, a Trustee of Transforming Education in Norfolk and Chairs the Council for the University of East Anglia.

Richard chairs the remuneration and nominations committees.

richard.jewson@archant.co.uk


Peter Troughton, 64, joined the board of ECNG as a non-executive director in 1991, having served on the boards of East Anglian Daily Times Company Limited and Community Media Limited since 1984.

Peter graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and served in HM Diplomatic Service, before joining WHSmith Group plc, where he became Managing Director News Division and later, as a director of the main board, Managing Director Retailing. He left in 1995 to become Deputy Chairman of Rothschild Asset Management until 1999. He is a director of a number of private companies. He is Chairman of Lowland Investment Company plc and a director of JOHIM Global Investment Funds plc and Waverton Funds plc.

A former trustee of the National Gallery, he was appointed a Trustee of the Royal Collection in 2007. He is Chairman of the Council of the University of Bath and a Trustee of The Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.

Peter chairs the audit committee.

peter.troughton@archant.co.uk

Adrian Jeakings Chief Executive

Adrian Jeakings, 54, joined the Board as Finance Director in October 2002 and became Chief Executive in November 2008.

Adrian is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was Group Finance Director of The Stationery Office before joining Archant.

He is a graduate of Imperial College, London and worked briefly as an engineer before training as an accountant at BICC plc. After qualifying, he joined the instrumentation division of Schlumberger, where he was Finance Director of a number of business units based in France. Before joining The Stationery Office he was Director – Finance Europe for Dun & Bradstreet Inc.

Adrian is a Director of the PA Group Limited and is president of the Newspaper Society. He is also a governor of Norwich School.

Adrian chairs the pension committee.

adrian.jeakings@archant.co.uk

Brian McCarthy Finance Director

Brian McCarthy, 50, joined the Board as Finance Director in November 2008.

Brian is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, having qualified with Arthur Andersen in Dublin and Cambridge, and joined Archant in January 2004 as Finance Director of Archant Regional.

Previously he worked as Finance Director of an environmental company and prior to that he held a series of senior finance roles in the English Language Division of Pearson Education.

He is also a Director of the Newspaper Licensing Agency and a Trustee of Transforming Education in Norfolk.

brian.mccarthy@archant.co.uk

simon copeman non executive director

Simon Copeman, 46, joined the board of ECNG in October 2001 as a non-executive director, having previously been a member of the ECNG Newspapers board.

Since 1990 he has held a variety of general management, Six Sigma and sales and marketing positions with 3M UK plc and is currently their Manager of 3M Traffic Safety Systems Division.

scopeman@mmm.com


Richard Wyatt, 53, was appointed a non-executive director of Archant in April 2005.

Richard is Chairman of Loudwater Investment Partners Limited. He is a Managing Director of N.M. Rothschild and formerly Managing Director of Schroder Securities.

Richard, who is a law graduate, is also a trustee of Aldeburgh Music.

richard.wyatt@loudwaterpartners.com
Jonathan Hustler Director

Johnny Hustler, 57, managing director of Archant Anglia, joined the Board in January 2008, having served as a director of a number of other Archant companies during 24 years of service with the Group.

After graduating from Leeds University, he went to Unilever and started his media career with Anglia Television in 1983, then joining the East Anglian Daily Times in 1987. In 1995 he moved to Eastern Counties Newspapers Limited as Marketing Director, after which he served in a number of senior commercial roles before launching Archant Life in 2001 and managing its development through to 2011. In April 2011, he became MD of Archant Anglia.

Johnny is the UK director of the International Newspaper NewsMedia Marketing Association and sits on their Europeam board. He is also a governor of Norwich School.

johnny.hustler@archant.co.uk

Mike Walsh Non Executive Director

Mike Walsh, 63, was appointed a non-executive director of Archant in February 2010.

Mike is a director of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa and of Ogilvy & Mather Africa Inc and a non-executive of The Brand Union. Formerly a main board director of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide for 16 years, he was also, for 12 years, Chief Executive of their Europe, Middle East and African operations. He is also Senior Vice President of Business Development for Velti Plc.

After graduating from Durham in 1971, Mike joined Young & Rubicam and was appointed to the Board in 1981 before joining Ogilvy & Mather Plc in 1983.

Mike was for six years Chairman of the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, which is an umbrella organisations for 13 leading UK charities including The Red Cross, Oxfam and Save The Children.

mike.walsh@archant.co.uk

Sonita Alleyne OBE Non Executive Director

Sonita Alleyne OBE, 46, was appointed a non-executive director of Archant in February 2012.

After studying Philosophy at Cambridge University, Sonita founded cross-platform media production company Somethin’ Else in 1991. She was the CEO of the business for 18 years and a Non-executive Director for a further two years. She is a board member of the British Board of Film Classification, a member of the Court of Governors of the University of the Arts and chair of the Islington Arts and Media School Trust.

She was a Non-executive Director at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and a previous member of the National Employment Panel and London Skills and Employment Board. Sonita won the Carlton Multicultural Achievement Award for TV and Radio in 2002 and is a fellow of The Royal Society of the Arts and the Radio Academy. She was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in November 2003.

sonita.alleyne@archant.co.uk

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