Our senior management team is responsible for ensuring that our operations, services and standards reflect the values we hold true to.
Peter
Smith
Chairman of Savills plc, and Chairman of the Nomination Committee
Aged 63, was appointed to the Board as
a Non-Executive Director on 24 May 2004
and was elected Chairman with effect from
1 November 2004.
His other non-executive
appointments are: N M Rothschild & Sons
Limited, Rothschild Bank AG, The Equitable
Life Assurance Society, Associated British
Foods plc and Chairman of Templeton
Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc.
Formerly, Peter was Senior Partner of
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and
served for two years as Chairman of Coopers
& Lybrand International and as a member of
the global leadership team of PwC. He served
as Chairman of RAC plc and was a Non-
Executive Director of Safeway plc.
Jeremy
Helsby
Group Chief Executive
Aged 54, joined Savills in 1980 and was
appointed to the Board in 1999.
He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Savills Commercial and Savills Europe for
seven years until he was appointed as Group
Chief Executive on 7 May 2008. He remains
a Director of Savills Asia Pacific.
Simon
Shaw
Group Chief Financial Officer
Aged 45, joined Savills as Group Chief
Financial Officer on 16 March 2009. Simon
is a Chartered Accountant.
He is one of the
two Authorised Representatives of Savills on
the Members’ Committee of Cordea Savills.
He is Non-Executive Chairman of Synairgen
plc and was Chief Financial Officer of
Gyrus Group PLC from 2003 until its sale
to Olympus Corporation in 2008, having
previously been Chief Operating Officer of
Profile Therapeutics plc between 1998 and
2003. Between 1991 and 1997 he was a
corporate financier, latterly at Hambros
Bank Limited.
Charles
McVeigh
Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee
Aged 67, was appointed to the Board as a
Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2000.
He is currently Chairman of Citigroup’s
Corporate and Investment Banking –
Global Wealth Management Partnership.
He serves on the Board of EFG-Hermes and
Petropavlosk plc (formerly Peter Hambro
Mining plc). Formerly he was Co-Chairman
of Citigroup’s European Investment Bank and
served on the Boards of Witan Investment
Company plc, Clearstream, the London
Stock Exchange, LIFFE, British American
Business Inc and was a member of both the
Development Board and Advisory Council
of the Prince’s Trust. He was also appointed
by the Bank of England to serve on the City
Capital Markets Committee and the Legal
Risk Review Committee and was a member
of the Fulbright Commission.
Timothy
Ingram
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Aged 62, was appointed to the Board
on 27 June 2002. He is Chief Executive
of Caledonia Investments plc and a Non-
Executive Director of The Sage Group plc,
ANZ Bank (Europe) Limited and Alok
Industries Limited.
He was formerly
Chief Executive of First National Finance
Corporation, a main Board Director of Abbey
National plc and a Non-Executive Director
of Hogg Robinson plc.
Martin
Angle
Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee
Aged 59, was appointed to the Board on
2 January 2007. He is a Non-Executive
Director of JSC Severstal, Pennon Group
plc, The National Exhibition Centre
(Chairman) and resigned as Non-Executive
Director of Dubai International Capital LLC
in November 2009.
Formerly, he served as
Chairman of Celerant Consulting, as Group
Finance Director of TI Group plc and held
various executive roles with Terra Firma
Capital Partners and its portfolio companies,
including The Waste Recycling Group
(Executive Chairman) and Le Meridien Hotel
Group (Deputy Chairman). He is also a
member of the Advisory Board of Warwick
Business School.