Rightmove Plc
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Founded by three of the UK's largest estate agency chains - Halifax, Countrywide & Connells - Rightmove is a property internet portal. Over half of all UK estate agents advertise their properties on the website, enabling users to see homes for sale or for letting all over the UK. The company floated with plans to specialise in producing Home Information Packs but this has since been dropped after a government u-turn on the idea.
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Scott Forbes
Chairman
Appointment to the Board 13 July 2005 Committee membership Nomination Current external commitments Chairman of Orbitz Worldwide Chairman of Innasol Group Limited Chief Executive of Bridge Capital Advisors Ltd Previous roles and relevant experience Director of NetJets Management Ltd, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway until October 2009. Scott has over 30 years’ experience in operations, finance and mergers and acquisitions including 15 years at Cendant Corporation which was formerly the largest worldwide provider of residential property services. Scott established Cendant’s international headquarters in London in 1999 and led this division as Group Managing Director until he joined Rightmove.
Nick McKittrick
Chief Executive Officer
Appointment to the Board 5 March 2004 Current external commitments None Previous roles and relevant experience Nick is one of the co-founding executives and became Chief Executive Officer in April 2013 having been Chief Operating Officer since 2005 and additionally Finance Director since 2009. His prior experience is in technology consulting with Accenture.
Peter Brooks-Johnson
Chief Operating Officer
Appointment to the Board 10 January 2011 Current external commitments None Previous roles and relevant experience Peter joined Rightmove in 2006 and became Chief Operating Officer in April 2013 having been Managing Director of rightmove.co.uk since 2011 and Head of the estate agency business since 2008. Prior to joining Rightmove, Peter was a management consultant with Accenture and the Berkeley Partnership.
Peter Williams
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board 3 February 2014 Committee membership Remuneration Current external commitments Chairman of boohoo.com plc Chairman of Jaeger Chairman of Mister Spex GmbH Senior independent non-executive director of Sportech plc Non-executive director of Cineworld Group plc Previous roles and relevant experience Peter was previously senior independent director of ASOS plc, held non-executive director roles in the EMI group, Blacks Leisure Group plc, JJB Sports plc, GCap Media plc and Capital Radio Group plc. In his executive career, he was Chief Executive at Alpha Group plc and prior to that, Chief Executive of Selfridges plc where he also acted as Chief Financial Officer for over ten years.
Colin Kemp
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board 3 July 2007 Committee membership Remuneration, Nomination Current external commitments Managing Director of Telephone Banking for the Lloyds Banking Group, Retail Business Previous roles and relevant experience With over 30 years’ experience in high street retail banking, Colin has worked for Lloyds Banking Group companies since 1979. Between January 2005 and December 2007, Colin was Managing Director of Halifax Estate Agencies Limited. Colin is a Cranfield MBA and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Robyn Perriss
Finance Director
Appointment to the Board 30 April 2013 Current external commitments None Previous roles and relevant experience Robyn joined Rightmove in 2007 as Financial Controller with responsibility for day to day financial operations, was appointed Company Secretary in April 2012 (until July 2014) and promoted to the Board as Finance Director in April 2013. Robyn qualified as a chartered accountant in South Africa with KPMG and worked in both audit and transaction services. Prior to joining Rightmove, Robyn was Group Financial Controller at the online media business, Auto Trader.
Ashley Martin
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board 11 June 2009 Committee membership Remuneration, Audit (Chairman) Current external commitments Group Chief Financial Officer of Engine Holding LLC Previous roles and relevant experience Ashley qualified as a chartered accountant in 1981 and has a career in finance spanning 30 years. He was previously Finance Director of Rok plc, the building services group, and Group Finance Director of the media services company, Tempus plc.
Rakhi Parekh
Non-Executive Director
Appointment to the Board 28 July 2014 Current external commitments None Previous roles and relevant experience Rakhi was previously Director of UK Media at Amazon through to June 2014. She held various other senior positions during her 11 year tenure at Amazon including Media, Entertainment, General Merchandise and Book divisions as well as Product Development. Prior to Amazon, Rakhi previously advised Zappos and held strategy roles at TomTom and Oliver Wyman.
Jenny Warburton
Company Secretary
Appointment to the Board 1 July 2014 Current external commitments None Previous roles and relevant experience Jenny joined Rightmove in 2011 as Assistant Company Secretary and was promoted to Company Secretary in 2014. She is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Prior to joining Rightmove Jenny was the Assistant Company Secretary at Jacques Vert plc and before that held various senior management roles within the Aurora Fashions Group.