Board & Management
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Pieter Totte (Non-executive Chairman), aged 57, has considerable knowledge of the food sector and has acted as a corporate finance adviser in a large number of transactions within the food industry over the last 20 years. He is retained as an advisor to various companies operating in the food sector and is the Chairman of Aquabella. |
| Patrick Ridgwell (Non-executive Deputy Chairman), aged 61, has extensive experience of the sugar industry and other food sectors, having acquired and developed a number of food businesses during his career. He joined Napier Brown & Company in 1964, became a director in 1969 and Managing Director in 1972, following its acquisition of his family interests in 1970. He is Chairman of Napier Brown Holdings Limited which is controlled by his family interests. He is also a director of Napier Brown Ingredients. |
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Lee Camfield (Group Finance Director), aged 40, qualified as a management accountant in 1991. He joined the Group in March 2004 from Golden West Foods Limited, a subsidiary of Rank Hovis McDougall, where he was Group Financial Controller. He has held a number of financial appointments with food manufacturing companies including Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages Limited, The Cheese Company Limited and H.J. Heinz Limited. |
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Peter Salter (Non-executive Director), aged 58, was until 1998 a partner in Horwath Clark Whitehill, Chartered Accountants, initially as a specialist tax partner and latterly as Chief Executive of the firm. He then spent some five years in international corporate consultancy where he was involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions, fund raising and other advisory work. He has wide experience of working with financial institutions and companies and leads the Group’s Audit and Remuneration Committees. |
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Christopher Thomas (Non-executive Director), aged 62, qualified as a chartered accountant with Harmood Banner, a predecessor firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1969. In 1973, after working abroad, he joined Breakmate Limited, a vending business, which was admitted to the Unlisted Securities Market in 1984. Following a sale of the business he worked as a financial consultant. In 1992 he joined the NBF Group as Group Finance Director. For the last thirteen years he has been directly involved with the day-to-day operations of the individual businesses within the NBF Group, and was most recently CEO of NBF plc. |
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Stephen Heslop (Group Managing Director), aged 49, Stephen is the Group Managing Director a role he assumed in September 2007. Stephen has worked in the food and drink industry for 22 years, including positions at Grand Metropolitan, RHM, Homepride Foods (Dalgety) and Beaverlac Fine Foods (Hazlewoods). Before his appointment as Group Managing Director Stephen was Managing Director of the Bakery Ingredients Division at RGFC a role he commenced in October 2005 and Managing Director of Bakery/Bakery Ingredients Division from February 2007. |
Remuneration Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte, Patrick Ridgwell
Audit Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte and Chris Thomas