STM Group Plc
STM:LN
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Duncan Crocker
Non-Executive Chairman
Duncan has spent his entire working career in the UK financial services industry, the last 20 years of which being spent reporting in at group board level in a FTSE 100 group. He has extensive experience across a broad range of customer and distribution sectors and has led various legal entities with direct P&L accountability. Duncan has extensive governance, commercial and business transformation experience and believes deeply in an engaged and accountable leadership style. He left full-time executive employment in 2014, following 37 years served across various leadership roles at Legal and General Group plc ("L&G"). Duncan was latterly managing director of L&G's UK intermediated housing / mortgage sector business, having previously headed up L&G's UK Intermediary and banking distribution divisions. In his current non-executive career he has provided guidance and advisory as an independent non-executive director with Zurich Intermediary Group Limited (part of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd), and one of the largest UK independent mortgage brokers, London & Country Mortgages Limited. Duncan also acts as an adviser to a number of fledgling digital fin-tech start-up businesses both pre and post revenue.
Alan Roy Kentish
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Alan Kentish trained with a Big 4 accountancy firm in the UK and specialised in financial services audits, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant over 25 years ago. He moved to Gibraltar in 1993, and joined the BDO firm as the founder of their insurance management division. Alan was at the forefront of developing the hugely successful Gibraltar insurance sector, and qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute as well as becoming a qualified Associate of the Institute of Risk Management along the way. The BDO member firm evolved into STM as part of the AIM listing in 2007, with Alan holding the office of Chief Financial Officer at that time, as well as navigating STM through the difficult financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. Alan became the director of business development in 2012 as STM moved into its growth phase, particularly in relation to its pension product offering, and took over as CEO in April 2016 as part of continuing to build the infrastructure of the business. Alan has served on numerous company boards, both regulated and non-regulated, but primarily in the financial services and insurance sector, including a main subsidiary board of a FTSE 100 company.
Therese Gemma Neish
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Therese joined the Board in January 2014, as Chief Financial Officer having been promoted internally from Group Financial Controller, a role she carried out for five years. She joined the STM's finance division shortly after the Group listed on AIM 2007 and was instrumental in creating an efficient, collaborative and robust finance function as the Group expanded into new jurisdictions. Prior to that Therese worked for STM's Insurance Management division for five years where she managed and sat on the board of various Gibraltar regulated insurance companies. Having been part of STM'S history for the last 15 years gives Therese key knowledge of the business and makes her well-suited to assist in it's continuing journey. Prior to her career with STM, Therese trained with KPMG for 5 years where she qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2003.