Board & Management
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Pieter Totte (Executive joint Chairman), aged 58, Pieter 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. |
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Mike McDonough (Group Finance Director), ACMA age 50, joined the Renshaw business in 1989 as Management Accountant at the start of Renshaws rationalisation programme under the ownership of the Schwartau Group. In 1993 he was appointed Finance Director holding this role as the business developed and expanded under the Swiss based Hero Group. |
| Patrick Ridgwell (Non-executive joint Chairman), aged 62, 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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Peter Salter (Non-executive Director), aged 60, 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. He is a director of two other AIM companies. |
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Christopher Thomas (Non-executive Director), aged 63, 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. |
Remuneration Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte, Patrick Ridgwell
Audit Committee members include: Peter Salter, Pieter Totte and Chris Thomas