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Key management biographies

Executive directors

George Weston (b.1964)

George Weston is Chief Executive. He is a graduate of New College Oxford and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

In his former roles as Managing Director of Westmill Foods, Allied Bakeries and George Weston Foods Ltd (Australia) he has been a member of the ABF board since 1999. He took up his current appointment in April 2005.

Mr Weston is married with four children.

John G Bason (b.1957)

Appointed Finance Director in May 1999, he was previously the finance director of Bunzl plc and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Non-executive directors

Martin Adamson (b.1939)

Appointed a director on 11 October 1999 and Chairman on 5 December 2002. He was a senior partner of KPMG and a member of that firm’s board until 1996. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Mr Adamson is a member of the Nomination Committee (Chairman) and the Remuneration Committee (Chairman).

WG Galen Weston OC (b.1940)

A director since 1964, he is chairman and president of George Weston Limited, Canada. He is also chairman of Selfridges & Co. Limited and a non-executive director of Wittington Investments Limited.

Timothy Clarke (b.1957)^*

Appointed a director on 3 November 2004, he has been chief executive of Mitchells & Butlers plc since the demerger from Six Continents PLC in 2003. He joined Bass PLC in 1990 having previously been a partner of Panmure Gordon & Co.

Mr Clarke is a member of the Nomination Committee and the Audit Committee.

Lord Jay of Ewelme GCMG (b.1946)^*

Appointed a director on 1 November 2006, he was British Ambassador to France from 1996 to 2001, Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign & Commonwealth office from 2002 to 2006, and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative for the G8 Summits at Gleneagles and St Petersburg in 2005 and 2006. His early career included time at the World Bank in Washington and the British High Commission in New Delhi.

Lord Jay is a member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee.

Javier Ferrán (b.1956)^*

Appointed a director on 1 November 2006, he spent his earlier career with Bacardi Group, his last position being president and chief executive officer. He is currently a partner at Lion Capital LLP, a London-based private equity firm. He is a non-executive director of Abbott plc and vice-chairman of William Grant and Sons Limited.

Mr Ferrán is a member of the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee.

Peter Smith (b.1946)^*

Appointed a director on 28 February 2007, Peter is Chairman of Savills plc and a non-executive director of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc and The Equitable Life Assurance Society. He is a Member of the Board of the CBI. Formerly, he was Senior Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and served for two years as Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International and as a member of the global leadership team of PwC and Chairman of RAC plc.

Mr Smith is Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.

* Independent non-executive director