The Board

The Rt Hon Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde (Chairman)

Authority Member from 21 September 2004 and Chairman since 1 April 2005.

Appointed to 31 March 2011.

Non Executive Director of George Wimpey Plc from October 2003 to July 2007.

Non Executive Director Taylor Wimpey plc from July 2007 and Non-Executive Director of Dawson Holdings Plc from August 2004.

Chairman of the Housing Corporation from 1997 to October 2003.

Chairman of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body and member of the Senior alaries Review Body from 1997 to January 2004.

Board member of the General Insurance Standards Council and Chairman of the Scrutiny Committee and Remuneration Committee from May 2000 to March 2005.

Member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

Appointed Partnership Director of National Air Traffic Control Services from July 2006.

Bill Edgerley*

Authority Member from 1 March 2010.

Appointed to 28 February 2013.

Trustee of the Cutty Sark and Chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises.

Advisor to the National Maritime Museum.

Previously, Managing Director, P&O Estates Limited 2005-2009, P&O Developments Limited 1994-2009.

Chief Executive, Riverbus Partnership 1991-1993.

Prior to joining P&O in 1985, worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and a Civil Engineering Consultancy Practice.

Helen Gordon

Authority Member from 21 September 2007.

Appointed to 20 September 2013.

Life Fund Director Legal & General Investment Management 2003 - to date.

Previously, Group Property Director, Railtrack Group plc 1997-2003.

Managing Director, John Laing Developments 1987-1997.

Trustee of College of Estate Management 2007 - to date.

Former Board Member British Waterways Board 2000-2006.

Michael Paske**

Authority Member from 21 September 2004.

Appointed to 20 September 2013.

Vice-President of the National Farmers’ Union 1999-2004.

Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution since 2004.

Current directorships: Meiosis Ltd; HuntMore Ltd; Michael Paske Farms Ltd. and the N.P.T.C. (National Proficiency Testing Council), the land-based division of City and Guilds.

Stephen Plent*

Authority Member from 23 May 2005.

Appointed to 22 May 2011.

Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Formerly General Manager of Operations at Stansted Airport and previously Corporate Group Head of Transport and Ground Support at BAA Plc.

Previously Chief Engineer and then Director of Operations Transport at Brighton & Hove City Council.

Glyn Smith*

Authority Member from 21 September 2007.

Appointed to 20 September 2013.

Group Finance Director Portman Building Society 1999 - 2006.

Prior to that held a number of senior management positions in Barclays Bank.

Other non-executive directorships in both the public and private sector, including Domestic & General Group PLC until 2007, Stroud & Swindon Building Society, Bournemouth & Poole Teaching Primary Care Trust and Bournemouth University (until January 2010).

A chartered accountant for over 30 years and an examiner for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

John Wilson**

Authority Member from 21 September 2004.

Appointed to 20 September 2013.

Took early retirement in 2004 from the Ministry of Defence, where he had been Chief Executive of the Defence Housing Executive since 1999.

He was also a member of the Defence Estates Management Board and a member of the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel) Management Board.