McBride

Our Board

Iain J G Napier

Iain J G 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 a non-executive director of John Menzies plc, 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.

Miles W Roberts

Miles W Roberts
Chief Executive

Member of the Nomination sub-committee.

Miles Roberts is Chief Executive of McBride, a role he assumed in July 2005 having originally joined the Company as Group Finance Director in January 2002.

His experience prior to McBride includes being Group Finance Director of Costain Group plc and Three Valleys Water plc. Miles is also a non-executive director of Care UK plc, Chairman of its Audit Committee and a member of its Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.

Colin D Smith

Colin D 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.

Robert A Lee

Robert A 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.

Christine A Bogdanowicz-Bindert

Christine A 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.

Richard Armitage

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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