About Us

	Andrew Summers CMG – Chairman of the Companies House Steering Board Andrew works in a variety of non-executive roles which include Director of Ramboll, a leading engineering consultancy, Chairman of Design Partners, the industry/government body which supports design companies internationally, and Deputy President of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been independent chairman of the Companies House Steering Board since 2007. He was Chief Executive of the Design Council until 2003 and previously held many high profile positions for various companies including as Managing Director of Sharwoods and of RHM Foods and as the first Chief Executive of the Management Charter Initiative. His government roles have included board membership of the Small Business Service and of British Trade International and chairman of the DTI European Trade Committee. He was awarded the CMG in 2001 for his work in promoting UK design internationally.
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	Rodger Hughes Rodger was appointed to the Steering Board and as Chair of the Audit Committee from January 2008. A Chartered Accountant, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 25 years, including 4 years as Managing Partner and 7 years as Head of the Assurance practice. He has had extensive experience advising a wide range of organisations on business issues. He is Senior Independent Director of Chime Communications plc, a member of the Board of the international law firm Simmons & Simmons and was until its takeover in November 2009 a Director of Friends Provident plc
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	Alex Jablonowski Alex was appointed to the Steering Board in January 2004. He is a senior international banker who has gained a broad range of experience in UK and international banking, financial institutions, operational services, IT and project management. Alex also has extensive industrial and commercial experience gained through corporate banking and lending. He has operated at Board level with many major companies and banks holding positions such as Barclays Group Strategic Planning Director, as a divisional MD for Barclays and as CEO of a merchant and private bank. Alex currently holds various advisory roles and other non - executive directorships.
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	Richard Carter Richard Carter is currently BIS's Director- Corporate Law & Governance and Director - Europe where he has responsibility for company law, accounting and audit regulation and standards, Better Regulation, European Strategy and Single Market policy. A career civil servant, he has held a variety of civil service posts, including two previous periods working on company law issues. Prior to joining CLG, he was Director of BIS's New Industries New Jobs Directorate
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	Sheila Doyle Sheila was appointed to the steering board in January 2010. She has extensive experience in business, in particular specializing in IT management, strategic alignment and complex programme 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 was appointed IT director for Royal Mail where her focus is 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.
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	Nicky Alberry Nicky was appointed to the Steering Board in January 2009. She started her career with HSBC but has worked extensively in the world of business support and economic development for the last 17 years. She is Joint Chairman of GWE Business West, a South West based membership and economic development organisation and Chairman of Northern Arc, a company delivering publicly funded contracts in the area of business support and skills development to South West businesses. She is Vice Chairman on the Community Foundation for Wiltshire and Swindon and a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire.
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	Bernadette Kelly - Director General of Fair Market - Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) Bernadette Kelly was appointed Director General of Fair Markets, BIS in March 2010. Bernadette joined BIS from the Department and Communities and Local Government, where she was Executive Director first of Planning and then Housing. Bernadette began her career in the Department of Trade and Industry in 1986 where she worked in a number of roles mainly on regulatory policy and strategy and finance. In 1997 she moved to the Treasury where she led work on public sector pay and efficiency. From 1999 to 2001 she was Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. Following a secondment to ICI she became Director of Corporate Law and Governance at DTI. From 2005 she was a Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, advising on transport, planning, housing and better regulation.Bernadette moved to DCLG in 2007 having led work on planning reform from the Cabinet Office.
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