 | Iain Napier
Non-Executive Chairman
Chairman of the Nomination and member of the Remuneration
sub-committees.
Iain Napier was appointed non-executive Chairman of McBride in
July 2007.
He is also non-executive Chairman of Imperial Tobacco Group plc
and 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.
As a former main board director of Bass plc, he 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.
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 | Chris Bull
Chief Executive
Chris Bull joined McBride plc as Chief Executive on 4 May
2010.
Chris joins us from Unilever where he has most recently been
Chief Customer Officer for Unilever plc. Chris has broad experience
in the household and personal care sectors including considerable
commercial experience dealing with major global retailers. He has
had an extensive international career with Unilever covering 25
years and from 2003-07 was CEO of Unilever Poland and Baltics. He
has been a CEO of sizeable divisions in Unilever, and in his
earlier career managed manufacturing operations, building on his
qualification as a graduate engineer.
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 | Colin Smith
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairman of the Audit and member of the Nomination and
Remuneration sub-committees.
Colin Smith has been a non-executive director of McBride since
April 2002. His previous experience includes 20 years at Safeway
plc, the last six years as Chief Executive and, before that, as
Finance Director.
Colin is also Chairman of Assured Food Standards Ltd and
Poundland Holdings Ltd. Colin is McBride's Senior Independent
Director.
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 | 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.
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 | Christine Bogdanowicz-Bindert
Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination
sub-committees.
Christine Bogdanowicz-Bindert has been a non-executive director
of McBride since September 2003.
Christine is an experienced financier, having worked throughout
Europe and the US for the last 30 years. This included experience
at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, Lehman
Brothers Inc in New York and Frankfurt and as a non-executive
director of various companies in Poland and the US.
Christine became a non-executive director of Ford Financial
Europe in September 2005 and is also a member of its Audit
Committee.
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 | 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.
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