Board of Directors
Mark Asplin
Non-Executive Chairman
Appointment to the Board: April 2005
Committee membership: Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee
Mark Asplin is a Chartered Accountant and joined the Board in April 2005. Mark was appointed Chairman in November 2011. He was until 2002 a partner at KPMG. During his time at KPMG he helped build its Corporate Finance practice, undertaking roles which included Head of M&A and Head of Valuations, both for the central region of the UK. He left KPMG to set up Jasper Corporate Finance, an independent corporate finance practice.
Pedro Ros
Chief Executive Officer
Appointment to the Board: July 2014
Committee membership: Nomination Committee
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.
Anthony M Foye
Chief Finance Officer
Appointment to the Board: September 2012
Committee membership: None
Anthony M Foye is a Chartered Accountant. Between 1987 and 2004 Tony was Finance Director of Taylor & Francis Group plc. On a merger in May 2004 with Informa plc, Tony became Group Finance Director of the enlarged Group, a position he held until December 2007. From January 2008, Tony worked on a number of projects with various private equity groups. Between May 2009 and March 2011 he was Chief Finance Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Critical Information Group plc. He was also a Non-Executive Director of YouGov plc from March 2005 to June 2009.
Paul Dollman
Chartered Accountant
Appointment to the Board: September 2015
Committee membership: None
Paul Dollman is a Chartered Accountant and enjoyed a successful career in finance as the Group Finance Director of John Menzies plc, a FTSE 250 company. Current roles include Non-Executive Director of Scottish Amicable, part of Prudential plc, Non-Executive Chairman of Smart Metering plc, an AIM listed company, and a Member of the Audit Committee of The National Library of Scotland. Paul joined the board on 16 September 2015 and was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee on 5 November 2015.
Nathalie Schwarz
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board: December 2011
Committee membership: Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee (Chairman)
Nathalie Schwarz was formally the Commercial and Corporate Development Director on the Board at Channel 4 Television and was Strategy and Development Director on the Board of Capital Radio plc. Nathalie qualified as a solicitor with Clifford Chance.
Derek Carter
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board: December 2011
Committee membership: Audit Committee, Nomination Committee (Chairman) and Remuneration Committee
Derek Carter was previously Chief Executive of Emap Communications for 11 years, where he led Emap’s growth into a market leading mixed media business built on powerful information, events and magazine brands and its subsequent sale to Apax/Guardian Media Group in 2008. Derek, who was previously Chairman of DocuGroup, a leading European information business serving the construction sector, is the Senior Independent Director (‘SID’).
Daniel Barton
Appointment to the Board: April 2016
Committee membership: None
Daniel Barton qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2010, having worked at PwC in Manchester and London since 2005. He joined Wilmington in 2014 as Head of Corporate Reporting. Daniel was appointed as the Company Secretary on 29 April 2016, succeeding Linda Wake.