Our Board

Iain Napier
Chairman

Chairman of the Nomination and member of the Remuneration sub-committees.

Iain Napier was appointed Chairman of McBride in July 2007.

He is also Chairman of Imperial Tobacco Group plc, Chairman of John Menzies plc and a non-executive director of William Grant & Sons Holdings Limited and Molson Coors Brewing Company (a US quoted company). He was previously Group Chief Executive of Taylor Woodrow plc from 2002 to 2006.

As a former main Board director of Bass plc, Iain was Chief Executive of Bass Leisure and then Chief Executive of Bass Brewers and Bass International Brewers. Following the sale of the Bass beer business in 2000 he became Vice President UK and Ireland for Interbrew SA until August 2001.

Chris Bull
Chief Executive

Member of the Nomination sub-committee.

Chris Bull was appointed Chief Executive of McBride in May 2010. Chris was previously the Chief Customer Officer of Unilever Plc.

He had an extensive international career with Unilever covering 25 years and between 2003 and 2007 was CEO of Unilever Poland and Baltics. He has been CEO of sizeable divisions in Unilever, and in his earlier career managed manufacturing operations, building on his qualification as a graduate engineer.

Richard Armitage
Group Finance Director

Richard Armitage was appointed Group Finance Director of McBride in November 2009.

Richard was previously Finance Director of Premier Foods' Grocery Division. Prior to that, he spent 16 years in the chemical industry working for ICI and Courtaulds in a number of senior financial management positions.

Robert Lee
Independent Non-Executive Director

Chairman of the Remuneration and member of the Nomination and Audit sub-committees.

Bob Lee has been a non-executive director of McBride since September 2003. Bob has over 35 years' experience in the petrochemical and allied industries. He was employed by Dow Chemicals for 28 years in various international senior management roles.

In 1997 Bob joined the management team that led the demerger of Octel Corp (now Innospec Inc) to become an independent NYSE-listed petroleum additive company. Since 2000 he has been running a private packaging technology company, Advanced Plastics Technologies Luxembourg S.A., and in 2011 he became a director of Plastic Packaging & Training Consulting Company of Amman, Jordan.

Sandra Turner
Independent Non-Executive Director

Member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination sub-committees.

Sandra joined the Board as a non-executive director on 1 August 2011.

She was a member of the Tesco senior management team for over20 years, holding commercial and operational roles in the UK and Ireland, and was Commercial Director of Tesco Ireland between 2003 and 2009. Sandra is a non-executive director of Carpetright plc and Huhtamäki Oyj, and was previously a non-executive director of Northern Foods plc.

Neil Harrington
Independent Non-Executive Director

Chairman of the Audit, and member of the Nomination and Remuneration sub-committees.

Neil joined the Board as a non-Executive director on 4 January 2012.

Neil is a  Chartered accountant and has extensive and relevant financial experience, he was appointed as Finance Director for Mothercare plc in January 2006. Formerly Finance Director of George Clothing UK, a division of Asda Stores Limited, Chief Financial and Admin Officer of Global George, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Prior to joining Wal-Mart, was Finance Director of Barclaycard International, a division of Barclays Bank plc and Group Financial Controller of French Connection Group plc.