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Executive Directors

Toby J L Hayward ACA
Chairman

Toby Hayward was appointed Non Executive Chairman in May 2008.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche in 1984 and became an Investment Banker.
He was a Director of Corporate Finance at Singer & Friedlander Limited and Henry Ansbacher & Co. Limited before working in the Equity Capital Markets team at Canaccord Capital Limited.
He joined Jefferies International Limited as a Managing Director in 2005 with responsibility for UK Corporate Broking and left Jefferies in June 2008 to concentrate on Consultancy and Non Executive work.

Tom Haughey BA
Chief Executive Officer

Tom Haughey was appointed Group Commercial Director in February 2002. He graduated from Strathclyde University in 1978. His career until joining the Group was within Corus (formerly British Steel) where his last position was Commercial Director of Corus Construction and Industrial.
In November 2005 he was appointed Joint Group Managing Director and has prime roles in the key areas of procurement and strategy. In July 2007 Tom was appointed Chief Executive Officer for the group.

Peter A Emerson
Chief Operations Officer

Peter A Emerson has worked for the past 28 years in the Specialist Contracting Industry, initially in the concrete contracting sector. He joined Rowen in 1984 as a quantity surveyor rising to Deputy Managing Director in 1996. He was appointed Group Commercial Director in 1998. In December 2001 he was appointed to the key role of Managing Director of Watson Steel Structures Ltd. In July 2007 Peter was appointed Chief Operations Officer for the group.

Peter J Davison BA FCA
Finance Director

Peter J Davison joined the Group in 1988. He graduated from Lancaster University in 1977 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1980 with KPMG. Prior to joining the Group he worked in the construction industry for the John E Wiltshier Group, latterly as Chief Accountant and Company Secretary of their Scottish subsidiary. He was appointed Group Finance Director in 1990.

Non-Executive Directors

J Keith Elliott BSc MIChE
Senior Non-Executive Director

J Keith Elliott was appointed a non-executive director of the Company on 21 October 1998. He retired in July 1998 from the Bechtel Corporation, the international contracting organisation, where he was Senior Vice-President in charge of its petroleum and chemical business in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He worked at Bechtel for 32 years and continues to act as a consultant to the corporation.

D P Ridley
Non-Executive Director

D P Ridley was appointed a non-executive director of the Company in July 2002. He previously held the Chairmanship of Faithful and Gould, the quantity surveyor and cost management consultants, which forms part of the W S Atkins Group of Companies. He has a wealth of experience and contacts within a number of strategic sectors for the Group, including infrastructure and transportation.

Geoff Wright
Non-Executive Director

Geoff Wright was appointed in September 2006 as a non-executive director of the Company. He retired from Hammerson PLC, the FT100 Property Developer, where he was Director of Project Management and Construction, having worked there for 37 years. He is well known in the property and construction industries and was previously President of Chartered Institute of Building. He is a non-executive director of English Partnerships and BRE Trust.

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