Management

Mr James Ross Ancell, aged 69, has been an independent non-executive Director of the Company since April 2004. M.Ancell is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and has over 35 years of broad experience in building materials and construction sectors, waste management and recycling business gained from multinational corporations. He is currently the Chairman of Churngold Construction Holdings Limited in the UK, a leading specialist groundworks subcontractor carrying out groundworks and road surfacing, with a separate remediation business, cleaning up sites contaminated by previous industrial activity. Mr Ancell was a non-executive director of MJ Gleeson PLC, a housebuilder and regeneration company listed on the London Stock Exchange, from December 2014 to June 2020.