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The Board comprises 3 Executive Directors and 2 Non-executive Directors, 1 of which is considered to be independent for the purposes of the QCA Guidelines.
Brief biographical details of the Directors are set out below:
Roger Allard, Executive Chairman
Roger has been involved in the travel industry for almost 40 years. He was a board director of ABTA until 2007 and of several other non-competing travel companies. Roger was instrumental in creating Owners Abroad (now First Choice Holidays) and in listing it on the London Stock Exchange in 1982. After 20 years, Roger left First Choice in 1993 as Group Managing Director and was involved in the aviation industry until 1996. Roger acquired the Voyages of Discovery brand in 1997.
Ian Smith, Group CEO
Throughout the 1990’s Ian led Lunn Poly as Managing Director for the ten year period of their dominance of the retail travel sector. At the same time he sat as an Executive Director on the Group Board of Thomson Travel, which was the holding company that controlled Lunn Poly, Britannia Airways, Holiday Cottages and Thomson Holidays.
Since 2000 he held a variety of positions ranging from Chairman of Sun Villas Florida Direct, Chairman Et-china.com {Southern China’s largest tour operator based in Guangzhou in China} and more recently Executive Chairman of the Education Travel Group. He assumed the role of Group CEO at PMTG in June 2011 and Group CEO All Leisure in September 2012.
Chris Gadsby, Group Finance Director
Chris joined the Page & Moy Travel Group in July 2011, bringing with him 25 years’ experience of working at the highest levels of finance with Thomas Cook.
From 2000 onwards, he progressed from Financial Controller to Director of Finance and ended his time with the company as Chief Financial Officer, positioned at the forefront of all key strategic initiatives that transformed the business in recent years.
He was a member of the team that took Thomas Cook to PLC status in 2007, a move which redefined the travel industry. Chris is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
Philip Ovenden, Non-Executive
Philip, a chartered accountant, was the Group's Chief Executive until April 2007 and is now a non-executive director. Philip has been involved in the travel industry for more than 30 years. He worked at the International Leisure Group for seven years between 1984 and 1991 and was Chief Executive of Leisure International Airlines from 1994 until it was purchased by First Choice Holidays in 1998. He joined All Leisure as Group Chief Executive in 2000.
Nigel Jenkins, Non-Executive
Nigel Jenkins has been involved in the travel industry for 35 years. A founding Director of Unijet in 1981 he joined First Choice Holidays PLC in 1998. He led the restructure and turnaround of their Canadian div
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