Sir John Ritblat Honorary FRIBA
Non Executive Chairman (born 03/10/1935)
Appointed 15 June 2001, re-elected 12 May 2008
Sir John co-founded Conrad Ritblat & Co, forerunner to Colliers CRE, in 1959, and was chair of The British Land Company plc from 1970 to 2006, where he is now honorary president.
Sir John's other positions include chairman of the board of governors and honorary fellow of London Business School, deputy chairman and honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, board director of the Royal Institution, chairman of the Wallace Collection and president of Snowsport GB.
David Izett BA
Chief Executive Officer (born 28/01/1957)
Appointed 15 June 2001, re-elected 16 May 2006
David is a director of Colliers International Property Consultants Inc, joint chairman of Colliers EMEA and a member of the International Governing Committee of Colliers International. He is also a director of Colliers Capital UK Limited, chairman of Colliers Real Estate SL (the new Colliers International company in Spain) and a member of the British Council of Shopping Centres advisory committee.
David joined Conrad Ritblat in April 1994 as a director in the Retail Division, becoming head of the In Town Retail Department the following year and appointed Managing Director of the Company in 2001.
Gareth Jones MSc, FRICS
Chief Operating Officer (born 26/04/1956)
Appointed 1 January 2009
Gareth has worked for the Group for over 27 years, having joined Conrad Ritblat in September 1981 as a surveyor in its leisure department. He has been instrumental over the years in expanding the Group's range of sector and service offerings. Gareth is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with a BSc in Valuation and Estate Management and an MSc in Recreational Land Management from Reading University.
Mark Sample BSc (Hons), FCA
Group Finance Director (born 21/09/1961)
Appointed 31 July 2008
Mark has been with the Group and its predecessor businesses for 17 years. He was appointed Group Financial Controller of Conrad Ritblat in 1996 and from January 1991, was Group Financial Accountant of Edward Erdman Limited. Prior to this Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Stoy Hayward where he was employed between 1984 and 1990.
John Manser CBE, FCA, DL
Non-Executive Deputy Chairman (born 17/12/1939)
Appointed 18 June 2001, re-elected 14 May 2007
Chairman of Hiscox Investment Management Limited, Intermediate Capital Group plc, London Asia Chinese Private Equity Limited and Shaftesbury plc, and a non-executive director of SAB Miller plc, John was chairman of Delancey Estates plc from 1998 to 2001 and formerly chairman of Robert Fleming Holdings Limited.
Andrew Graham MA, FRICS
Executive Director (born 28/09/1950)
Appointed 15 June 2001, re-elected 12 May 2008
Andrew is property adviser to Leicestershire County council Pension Fund, non-executive director of the Transport Research Foundation and chairman of the Investment Property Forum Education Trust. He joined Conrad Ritblat in 1973, became a partner in 1980 and is now responsible for business development. He is a former chairman of the Investment Property Forum.
Colin Wagman FCA
Non-Executive Director (born 14/05/1946)
Appointed 4 September 2001, re-elected 12 May 2008
Deputy chairman of Delancey Real Estate Asset Management Limited and a non-executive director of GET Group plc, Colin is a chartered accountant and was a senior partner of Casson Beckman until 1991, a firm of chartered accountants that has since merged with Baker Tilly.
Christopher Newell
Non-Executive Director (born 01/05/1960)
Appointed 15 May 2007, elected 12 May 2008
Non-executive director at Altium Capital Limited (formerly Apax Partners Corporate Finance), non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee for Paragon Group of Companies plc, Christopher was a founding director of Altium, then chief executive before stepping down in 2003. He was a director of Artemis Investment Management, from its foundation in 1997 until 2005, and his earlier career included a corporate finance role at Morgan Grenfell & Co.
David Munns
Non-Executive Director (born 11/10/1964)
Appointed 2 July 2007, elected 12 May 2008
Group finance director at Rocco Forte Hotels for the past three years, David was formerly chief financial officer for the Financial Times Group and has worked as head of financial planning and analysis at Pearson PLC. He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG and his early career included corporate finance work at Ernst & Young.
Howard Goldsobel
Company Secretary, part-time
Appointed 15 June 2001
A partner in the firm of Michael Conn Goldsobel, Howard is a practising solicitor, admitted in 1967, who specialises in corporate and commercial work. From 1994 to 1999 he was group company secretary (part-time) of Milner Estates plc, a property group fully listed on the London Stock Exchange of which the then Colliers CRE business was a subsidiary. From 1983 to 1987 he was company secretary and a non-executive director of United Leasing plc, the first computer leasing company to be admitted to the official list.
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