Annual Report and Accounts 2009

Aged 63, was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director on 24 May 2004 and was elected Chairman with effect from 1 November 2004. His other non-executive appointments are: N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, Rothschild Bank AG, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, Associated British Foods plc and Chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust plc. Formerly, Peter was Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and served for two years as Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand International and as a member of the global leadership team of PwC. He served as Chairman of RAC plc and was a Non-Executive Director of Safeway plc.

Aged 54, joined Savills in 1980 and was appointed to the Board in 1999. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Savills Commercial and Savills Europe for seven years until he was appointed as Group Chief Executive on 7 May 2008. He remains a Director of Savills Asia Pacific.

Aged 45, joined Savills as Group Chief Financial Officer on 16 March 2009. Simon is a Chartered Accountant. He is one of the two Authorised Representatives of Savills on the Members’ Committee of Cordea Savills. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Synairgen plc and was Chief Financial Officer of Gyrus Group PLC from 2003 until its sale to Olympus Corporation in 2008, having previously been Chief Operating Officer of Profile Therapeutics plc between 1998 and 2003. Between 1991 and 1997 he was a corporate financier, latterly at Hambros Bank Limited.

Aged 59, was appointed to the Board on 2 January 2007. He is a Non-Executive Director of JSC Severstal, Pennon Group plc, The National Exhibition Centre (Chairman) and resigned as Non-Executive Director of Dubai International Capital LLC in November 2009. Formerly, he served as Chairman of Celerant Consulting, as Group Finance Director of TI Group plc and held various executive roles with Terra Firma Capital Partners and its portfolio companies, including The Waste Recycling Group (Executive Chairman) and Le Meridien Hotel Group (Deputy Chairman). He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Warwick Business School.

Aged 62, was appointed to the Board on 27 June 2002. He is Chief Executive of Caledonia Investments plc and a Non-Executive Director of The Sage Group plc, ANZ Bank (Europe) Limited and Alok Industries Limited. He was formerly Chief Executive of First National Finance Corporation, a main Board Director of Abbey National plc and a Non-Executive Director of Hogg Robinson plc.

Aged 67, was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director on 1 August 2000. He is currently Chairman of Citigroup’s Corporate and Investment Banking – Global Wealth Management Partnership. He serves on the Board of EFG-Hermes and Petropavlosk plc (formerly Peter Hambro Mining plc). Formerly he was Co-Chairman of Citigroup’s European Investment Bank and served on the Boards of Witan Investment Company plc, Clearstream, the London Stock Exchange, LIFFE, British American Business Inc and was a member of both the Development Board and Advisory Council of the Prince’s Trust. He was also appointed by the Bank of England to serve on the City Capital Markets Committee and the Legal Risk Review Committee and was a member of the Fulbright Commission.

Aged 51, was appointed to the Board on 27 June 2002. She is co-founder and partner of Leaders’ Quest and chairs its Advisory Board. She is a Non-Executive Director of the CDC Group and was on the Board of the UK’s Department for Business for six years, chairing its Investment Committee until 2008. She is also a governor of King’s College London where she chairs the audit committee. Previously she was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Strategy at the London Stock Exchange.