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AIRPORT COORDINATION LIMITED
Board of Directors
ACL is governed by a board of
four independent non-executive
directors, directors nominated by
our members and two executive
directors.
Meet our Board
I n dep en dent Di rec to r I n dep en dent D i re c to r
Ailsa Beaton OBE Catherine Brown
ABOUT AILSA A B O U T C AT H E R I N E
Appointed 1 October 2018 Appointed 31 October 2017
Ailsa Beaton OBE was a Alongside a career that
Chair Management Board member included senior roles in the
at the Metropolitan Police public and private sector,
Lesley Cowley OBE Service, the Chief Information Catherine has extensive
Officer at ICL plc and a Senior experience as a non-executive
Partner at PA Consulting Board Member. As a qualified
Group. She started her career accountant and an ex member
as an accountant before of the senior civil service,
moving into information Catherine brings to the board
ABOUT LESLEY
technology with General a focus on governance and
Appointed 1 January 2020 Electric (USA). strategy and an awareness
She now has a portfolio of of effective regulation
non-executive roles. These gained in her previous role
Lesley is a portfolio non-executive director and include being a non-executive as Chief Executive of the
independent Chair. Her experience includes chairing the director on the board of the Food Standards Agency, the
boards of the DVLA, The National Archives and Companies Information Commissioner’s regulator for the UK food
House. She was previously CEO of Nominet, the .uk domain Office, being a governor of the industry.
name registry, a role she held from 2004 to 2014. She Legal Education Foundation
has a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA), and sitting on the Advisory
awarded with distinction in 1997 from the Bristol Business Board for Information
School, University of the West of England. In 2015, she was Management and Information
awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Technology by Systems of Leeds University
the University of the West of England. Lesley was made an Business School.
OBE for services to the Internet and e-commerce in 2011. In
October 2019, she was named as Non-Executive Director of
the year in the Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards.
Ind epe n d e nt D i re c tor Nominated Director Nominated Director Nominated Director
Valerie Gordon-Walker Sophie Dekkers Julian Homerstone David Lawrence
A B O U T VA L E R I E ABOUT SOPHIE ABOUT JULIAN A B O U T DAV I D
Appointed 1 October 2018 Appointed 22 February 2017 Appointed 16 December 2016 Appointed 3 May 2018
Named by Cranfield as one Sophie has been with easyJet Julian has been General David has worked in the
of the FTSE 100 Women to over 12 years, currently in the Counsel at Virgin Atlantic aviation industry for more
Watch, Valerie is a Managing role of Director of Scheduling since 2014. At Virgin Atlantic, than 30 years, at British
Director, Executive Committee for the airline. Prior to this he has responsibility for legal Airways, Malaysia Airlines
member and Group Head she led easyJet in the UK affairs, company secretariat, and Tui Airways, and bring a
of Human Resources with as UK Country Director risk and insurance and the wide range of commercial,
30+ years’ senior experience for 5 years where she was data protection/compliance operational and regulatory
responsible for driving the functions. Julian is also a experience. His current role
working in the UK and
airline’s commercial success member of Virgin Atlantic’s is General Manager Aviation
overseas in highly regulated
and strategic direction in the senior leadership group and Planning at Tui.
industries.
UK. This role also involved acts as principal advisor on
representing aviation at both a broad spectrum of legal
Valerie has a non-executive House of Lords and House of issues.
portfolio career in both Commons Select Committees,
private and public sector. focusing on Brexit and the Julian was highlighted as one
In the public sector she is a impact on the industry. of the most influential in-house
Board member and Chair of Previous roles include Head lawyers in business by the
Remuneration Committee of Change Management and Legal 500 in its UK GC Power
for BPDTS Ltd. (at the DWP) Customer Insight at easyJet. list in 2016 and in 2020 he was
and formerly Independent Sophie is easyJet’s business recognised by the Legal 500
Senior Advisor to the Financial lead on Diversity & Inclusion, a as its In-house Counsel of the
Conduct Authority (FCA) and founding member of easyJet’s Year (Transport).
the Prudential Regulation Women’s Network, and is
Authority (PRA) at the Bank of passionate about inspiring
England on a part time basis. young women to achieve
more than they thought
possible in aviation.
Nominated Director Nominated Director ACL CEO AC L F i n a n c e D i re c to r
Chris Groom Ben Gibbs Edmond Rose Jo Clarke
ABOUT CHRIS ABOUT BEN ABOUT EDMOND ABOUT JO
Appointed 29 July 2020 Appointed 9 January 2020 Appointed 8 August 2018 Appointed 1 October 2014
Chris is the General Manager Ben is head of Finance- Fleet, Edmond is the CEO of Jo has been the Finance
in Commercial Planning at Network and Alliances at Airport Coordination Director at Airport
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. British Airways where he has Limited. He brings a wide Coordination Limited.
Chris has worked for Jet2 for worked for nearly twelve range of commercial and since 2011. Jo is a qualified
nearly ten years developing years. Ben brings a wealth regulatory experience to his accountant with over 30
a wealth of experience in of financial, analytical, and role from his work at both years of airline industry
commercial planning and strategic experience to his British Airways and Virgin experience. Her background
market development. He role. He is a BA Hons graduate Atlantic and as a consultant. includes commercial,
has a first-class Masters in from Manchester University Edmond started his working financial and engineering
Aeronautical and Aerospace and has an MSc in International life in the British diplomatic roles. Jo started her carer
engineering gained from the Business Management from Service before moving into as an aircraft engineer.
University of Leeds. the Alliance Manchester aviation. She has a Masters degree
Business School. in Business Administration
from Lancaster University
and a BEng in Air Transport
Engineering.
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