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Martin Rowland

Martin Rowland

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Chair
William Eccleshare

William Eccleshare

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Senior Independent Director
Carol hosey

Carol Hosey

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Non-Executive Director

Martin Rowland

Chair

Martin Rowland was appointed as non-independent non-executive director and Chair of the Company in October 2024. Martin is currently Executive Director of Transformation of Carr's Group plc (Carr's), in which Harwood Capital has a shareholding. Harwood Capital also has a shareholding in Centaur. Martin was previously a non-executive director of Carr's. He is also Chair and a shareholder of Pace XL, a transformation consultancy specialising in process and systems design. He was previously non-executive director and Chair of Smoove plc, a UK-based conveyancing technology provider, and a Chair and shareholder of Inzpire, the defence company. Prior to this, he held investment roles at LDC, the private equity fund, before moving into an advisory role with businesses.

Chair of the Nomination Committee

Martin Rowland

William Eccleshare

Senior Independent Director

William joined Centaur in July 2016. William served as CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE) - one of the world’s largest out-of-home media companies – from 2009 to 2021. He is Senior Independent Director of Britvic plc and Chair of The Design Council – a charity by Royal Charter and the UK Government’s strategic advisor on design.  William served as a non-executive director of Hays plc from 2004 to 2014, and was a Partner and Leader of European Branding Practice at McKinsey & Co from 2000 to 2003. He has also served in international leadership roles at major advertising agencies, including as European Chairman and CEO of BBDO (Omnicom); European Chairman of Young and Rubicam (WPP Group); Global Strategic Planning Director of J. Walter Thompson Worldwide (WPP Group); and CEO of PPGH/JWT Amsterdam.

Member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

William Eccleshare

Carol Hosey

Non-Executive Director

Carol joined Centaur on 5 February 2020. Carol has extensive remuneration experience at executive and board level and has spent over 20 years in senior HR roles, latterly as the Group HR Director for Mace Ltd, the international consultancy and construction group and Mitie Group plc.

Chair of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit and Nomination Committees. She is also the Non-Executive Director sponsor of Centaur’s employee engagement committee known as DICE.

Carol hosey
Colin Jones

Leslie-Ann Reed

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Non-Executive Director
Simon Longfield

Simon Longfield

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Chief Financial Officer

Leslie-Ann Reed

Non-Executive Director

Leslie-Ann joined Centaur on 1 March 2020 and became Chair of Centaur’s Audit Committee on 31 March 2020. Leslie-Ann is an experienced non-executive director and chairs the audit committee at Learning Technologies Group plc. She is also chair of the audit committee and senior independent non-executive director of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Leslie-Ann is a chartered accountant and her executive roles have included CFO of the B2B publisher Metal Bulletin plc and the online auctioneer Go Industry plc.

Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Colin Jones

Simon Longfield

Chief Financial Officer

Simon joined Centaur in November 2019. He spent the previous 10 years as CFO of BMI Research, a leading provider through its subscriptions model of macroeconomic, industry and financial market analysis, which was acquired by Fitch Group in 2014. During his time at BMI Research revenues more than doubled as the company expanded internationally with Simon’s support. Prior to this, Simon was CFO of Newfound, an AIM-listed property and leisure group. Simon began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked in London and Australia.

Simon Longfield
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