Executive Committee
Pedro Ros
Chief Executive Officer
Pedro Ros joined the board of Wilmington on 14 July 2014 and assumed the role of Chief Executive on 1 October 2014, succeeding Charles J Brady. Pedro joined Wilmington from Creston plc, where he was Head of Strategic Insight. Until June 2012 he was Chief Executive Officer and then Chairman of TNS, a world leader in market information and business analysis and a global subsidiary of WPP plc. Pedro has a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and has completed Management Programmes at Michigan University/IESE and Stanford University.
Richard Amos
Chief Financial Officer
Richard Amos joined Wilmington on 1 March 2018 and became Chief Financial Officer on 1 April 2018. Richard joins from Plant Impact plc, an AIM-listed agricultural technology business where he was CFO and Company Secretary from May 2016 to December 2017. Prior to that he was Group Finance Director of Anite plc, a main market listed technology group, from November 2009 until its sale in August 2015. Over the last 18 years he has held similar positions at a number of public and private technology companies, including Retail Decisions plc, Agilisys Holdings Ltd and VEGA Group plc. He qualified as a chartered accountant at EY in 1991 and holds an MA in Management Studies and Engineering from Cambridge University.
Bill Howarth
Divisional Director, Wilmington Risk and Compliance
Originally from a legal and academic background, Bill spent more than 30 years lecturing at universities across the world before being appointed CEO of the International Compliance Association in 2002. As the Divisional Director of Wilmington Risk and Compliance, Bill’s mandate and passion is the professionalisation of ‘Compliance’ as a discipline and bringing training, knowledge and compliance information to the financial services industry.
Richard Adams
Divisional Director, Wilmington Healthcare
Richard Adams is an experienced business leader of software, data and digital media businesses across multiple markets. Between 1989 and 2002 Richard held senior roles at Dendrite International, a leading software and analytics services provider to the life sciences industry, including VP Europe. Richard spent five years in the travel technology sector notably as Senior VP EMEA at Sabre Corp. In 2007 he was appointed CEO of Doctors.net.uk which he led to a successful sale. A graduate of the University of Birmingham and CIM, Richard is committed to the application of insight to improve performance and passionate about leveraging technology to deliver it.
Mike Fraser
Chief Technology Officer
Mike has worked in IT and digital product development over the last two decades, in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, publishing and media. He was at GlaxoSmithKline for five years which included the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and Smithkline Beecham, which created the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. He joined Reed Business Information (RBI), the B2B publisher and part of the RELX group, in 2005 and was at the forefront of evolving RBI’s products and services as the organisation transitioned from magazines to electronic workflow and data solutions.Mike completed his computer programming studies in South Africa in 1996 and graduated from Henley Business School in 2009 with an Executive MBA.
Tony Bainbridge
Group HR Director
Tony Bainbridge is an international and commercial HR Director with 30 years’ experience across the consumer, manufacturing, financial services, hospitality and healthcare industries.Tony’s career includes senior roles at Mars, PepsiCo, Novartis and InterContinental Hotels. He has worked for international businesses based in Poland, US, France and the UK, and was most recently based in Denmark as EVP of HR for Saxo Bank. A graduate of Durham University, his passion is in helping organisations to gain full value from their human capital – their organisation and people – ensuring that talent becomes a source of competitive advantage, and the company has the capability to attract and develop future talent.
Terry Sweeney
Divisional Director, Wilmington Professional
Terry Sweeney has 18 years' senior leadership experience in the global education sector. Prior to joining Wilmington Terry was CEO of Epigeum Ltd, a leading publisher of online programmes for higher education, which was sold to Oxford University Press in 2015. Previously Terry served as CEO for RM plc from 2008 to 2011 and CEO for Academic Partnerships International Ltd from 2012 to 2014. Terry has an engineering degree from City University and an MBA from Oxford Brookes University. In 2007 he attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. Terry is passionate about supporting companies and individuals achieve their goals through exceptional teaching and learning.