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Companies House appoints a new Chief Executive and Registrar Of Companies and two new Non-Executive Board MembersChief Executive and Registrar Companies House is pleased to announce that Tim Moss has been appointed as the new Registrar of Companies for England and Wales and as Chief Executive of Companies House. Tim has been carrying out this role on a temporary basis since March 2012 but will now take up this position on a permanent basis, becoming the 31st Registrar of Companies in a long line that dates back to 1844. 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. Before joining Companies House he spent 12 years in senior operational roles in the manufacturing industry. He has a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University, an MBA from Swansea University and lives on a farm in South Wales. Non - Executive Board Members Joining Tim on the Companies House Main Board are two new Non-Executive Board Members (NEBMs), Jeff Lynn and Mike Taylor, as announced this past week by our Business Minister Michael Fallon. The new board (which is chaired by an Independent Chair, Brian Landers) was established in August 2012. The role of the NEBMs is to provide external advice and expertise to inform Companies House's decision making and business strategy as it works hard to deliver the exciting challenges it faces. Companies House’s Chair, Brian Landers, said: “I am very pleased to welcome two outstanding new members to our Board. Their skills and experience complement those of the existing Board members and will greatly strengthen our deliberations.” These new appointments will take effect from 1 March, Jeff Lynn taking on the role for an initial period of three consecutive years and Mike Taylor for an initial 1 year period. Jeff will also sit on the organisation’s Audit Committee. Jeff Lynn is CEO and co-founder of Seedrs, one of the world’s leading equity crowd funding platforms. He also serves as founding Chairman of The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), which advocates on behalf of digital startups and SMEs on policy and regulatory issues. Jeff began his career as a corporate lawyer, practicing with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and London. Mike Taylor’s professional career started in the City where he was a Research Analyst where he rose to Director level and headed the media research team at Credit Suisse First Boston. He was ranked highly within the leading internal and external polls and was involved in a number of high profile capital raising exercises. Mike left the City in 2003 and founded Innovise plc. As founder CEO, Mike has led the buy and build growth of Innovise that has been recognised for its rapid growth in the IT market as a three times Deloitte Fast 50 Winner (2010, 2011, 2012) and a two times Sunday Times Tech Track Winner (2011, 2012) The Main Board’s role is to advise BIS and Ministers on its corporate plan and the extent to which Companies House carries out its functions effectively and efficiently in accordance with the Framework Document, the annual Business Plan and its ministerial public targets. The Main Board is chaired by an Independent Chair. Other members include the Chief Executive, the Directors of Companies House, a senior representative of the Shareholder Executive and four NEBMs. For further information, please contact: |
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