Companies House

Brian Landers – Chair of Companies House

Brian Landers was appointed as the Chair of Companies House on 1st August 2012.

Brian is a member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, an Audit Commissioner and Treasurer of the UK section of Amnesty International. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Service and a Trustee of the Royal Armouries.

He has extensive private sector Board experience in the UK and overseas. He has held financial, operational and general management positions in insurance, manufacturing, management consulting, retail and most recently publishing working for such household names as Sainsbury’s, W H Smith and Penguin Books. In addition he was the first Finance Director of the Prison Service. He has an MBA from London Business School.

Tim Moss - Registrar of Companies for England and Wales and Chief Executive of Companies House

Tim joined Companies House in 2002 and spent the first couple of years running the operations and compliance departments before moving into the role of Director of Corporate Strategy. In that role he had a wide portfolio of work including business strategy, corporate policy, marketing, internal audit, corporate communications as well as leading the work on moving to a fully electronic register and service transformation. Tim took over as acting Registrar and Chief Executive on 5 March 2012. Before joining Companies House he spent 12 years in senior operational roles in manufacturing industry. He has a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University, an MBA from Swansea University and lives on a farm in South Wales.

Ann Lewis - Director of Operations and Customer Delivery

Ann joined Companies House in July 2009, and is responsible for the Central Operations, for Customer Service and for Enforcement.

Prior to joining Companies House, Ann was a Deputy Director within the Office for National Statistics (ONS) based in Newport. Ann has spent over 30 years at the ONS covering a variety of roles with a great deal of experience of introducing and managing major business change strategies. Ann has managed various large teams delivering complex portfolios, specialising in operational management and driving forward business change and efficiencies.

Neil Hartley - Director of Corporate Services

Neil joined Companies House in November 2012 and is responsible for Corporate Services including HR, IT, finance and estates.

An accountant by profession, Neil has experience of a range of finance, corporate service and change leadership roles. He has worked in a number of departments and arms length bodies, including the Planning Inspectorate, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, Government Offices for the Regions, Communities and Local Government, the former electricity regulator and HMRC.

Prior to joining Companies House Neil worked on a review of new business models for central Government functions, the merger of two national planning bodies and a national transformation programme for the Government Office Network's finance and procurement functions.

Peter Wyman - Non-executive Board Member

Peter Wyman has a portfolio of appointments in the private, public and third sectors including being Chairman of Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chairman of Sir Richard Sutton's Settled Estates, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Pasco Risk Management, a Senior Advisor to Albright Stonebridge Group LLC, Chairman of Somerset Community Foundation and Treasurer of the University of Bath.

Previously Peter was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1978 until 2010, his most recent role in the Firm being Global Leader for Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs. In 2002/03 Peter was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and was Chairman of the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours in 2006 for services to the accountancy profession.

Sheila Doyle - Non-executive Board Member

Sheila has extensive experience in business, in particular specialising in IT management, strategic alignment and complex program delivery. She has held senior positions, operating at board level with blue chip companies including BP, IBM, and Deutsche Bank. She consulted to financial and manufacturing firms in Asia Pacific having spent a number of years in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. More recently, Sheila has focused on delivering customer facing solutions and leveraging technology in the digital age.

Sheila completed her PhD in Australia before returning to London with her family.

Craig Lester - Non Executive Director

Craig currently works at the Shareholder Executive (part of BIS) and leads on the National Nuclear Laboratory and the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, as well as being the lead sponsor for Companies House. Before that, he lead ShEx's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority team and has had a varied career across the public sector, including senior policy, operational and delivery roles in HM Treasury and HMRC. He also spent three years as Director of Client Development at the Valuation Office Agency leading their fee-earning property work.