The Board
Directors
Remuneration committee
The remuneration committee is responsible for determining the contract terms, remuneration and other benefits for executive directors, including performance-related bonus schemes. The committee comprises W J C Douie and A Pendlebury. It is chaired by W J C Douie. However, W J C Douie is not involved in determining his own remuneration.
Audit committee
The audit committee comprises W J C Douie, A Pendlebury and A Bailey, G Hewett and J White, and is chaired by W J C Douie. The committee meets as necessary to monitor the Group’s internal control systems and major accounting and audit related issues.
William Douie
Group Executive Chairman
After two years in export sales, commencing in 1962, with British Oxygen, he moved into banking with Midland Bank and qualified as an associate of the Institute of Bankers. In 1969 he moved into Merchant Banking, joining Keyser Ullmann Limited and spent six years in Investment Management before joining the Bank Board in 1975. In 1981, following the merger of Keyser Ullmann and Charterhouse Japhet, he left to buy out, and become Chairman of, the Group’s Instalment Credit subsidiary, Broadcastle Plc, and to become Chairman of British Benzol Limited, a fully listed company in the solid fuel industry. Following the acquisition by Broadcastle of Harton Securities Limited, he oversaw the merger of Broadcastle Plc and ATA Selection Plc, a USM listed recruitment company, before becoming Chairman of the Group in 1990. He joined with Clive Chapman in 1992 to purchase the ailing ATA Recruitment business from the group, and remains Executive Chairman.
Andy Pendlebury
Group Chief Executive Officer
Andy held a number of senior management positions during his long career with British Aerospace Plc. In 1992 he joined the Board of Wynnwith Engineering and was appointed Managing Director in 1995 establishing the business as one of the United Kingdom’s fastest growing recruitment businesses. In 2002 Andy joined GKN Plc as interim Managing Director of the company’s in-house recruitment business Engage and guided it through the Board’s divestment strategy. From 2004 to 2007, as Chief Executive, he engineered a trading turnaround and subsequent sale to the Morson Group of White & Nunn Holdings. He joined the board of RTC Group Plc as a non-executive in July 2007, becoming Group Chief Executive in October 2007.
Gary Hewett
Recruitment Managing Director
Gary was commissioned in the Royal Air Force in 1980 and served over 20 years in the UK, Germany and Belgium. Trained as a fighter navigator and subsequently a qualified weapons instructor, he flew Phantom F4s and Tornado F3s, was selected to attend the Joint Service Staff College in Canberra Australia, and retired as a Wing Commander from a strategic planning tour in Ministry of Defence in 2000. He was awarded an MBE in 1993 and completed a Cranfield University MSc (Corporate Management) in 1999. Gary’s initial role in ‘civvy street’ was as General Manager Service Delivery for Global Crossing, before a short duration in Interim Management being the Business Development Manager for Thales Communications, followed by four years as EMEA Business Development Director for Ocean Software. Gary joined the RTC Group initially as Managing Director of Ganymede Solutions in July 2008, was appointed as a Director of ATA Recruitment in February 2009, and Managing Director of ATA Recruitment in October 2010. He joined the board of RTC Group Plc in May 201.
Andrew Bailey
Group Finance Director
Andrew spent five years with a provincial accounting practice, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in June 1982, when he moved to KPMG. Having progressed to departmental manager within a general department, working on audit, accounting, tax, reporting and investigation work, Andrew left in 1987 to join Eagle Trust plc as a divisional financial controller. In 1990 he joined Sanderson CFL Ltd, a computer software and services business, as Finance Director. Andrew was appointed Managing Director of Sanderson CFL Ltd in 1993 and also held a number of non-executive roles within the Sanderson Group. On 24 April 2003, Andrew as appointed to the Board as Commercial Director of RTC Group Plc and became Group Managing Director in January 2006 and Group Chief Operating Officer in October 2007. In June 2009 Andrew left the board to take on the role of Training Division Managing Director. He rejoined the board as Group Finance Director in May 2011.
John White
Non-executive Director
John trained as a Mechanical Design Engineer at EMI Ltd then went into Contract Engineering being engaged by various engineering companies to work on specific projects. In 1975 became a Recruitment Contracts Manager in the sales and placement of Contract Engineers. In 1977 John joined Shorterm Engineers Ltd (SEL) as a Director and became a junior equity partner. With backing from Midland Montague Ventures Ltd, he led a Management Buyout taking individual overall control. Shorterm Group Ltd (SGL) continued its expansion programme organically and by acquisition whilst building up a management structure to become one of the largest technical employment agencies in the South of England. In 1999 SGL was sold to Venture Capital Company 3i, who supported a new Management Buy-in. He joined the board of RTC Group Plc as a non-executive in May 2011.
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