CFB Council

• Roger Smith - Chairman
• Chairman of family investment company, with appointments in the quoted section with European Motor Holdings plc and Close Brothers AIM VCT plc. Chairman of Harpenden Building Society and Epworth Investment Management. Governor of The University of Hertfordshire.






• Richard Reeves - Vice Chairman
• Chartered accountant with many years experience in the areas of governance and compliance as Company Secretary of Corus Group plc (formerly British Steel plc).








• Ted Awty
• A Senior Partner of international accounting firm KPMG LLP. A member of Sir Robert Smith’s Committee which produced the Audit Committees Combined Code Guidance Report in 2002. Member of the Companies Committee of the CBI.






• Peter Cussons
• PricewaterhouseCoopers tax partner with considerable international expertise. Chair of International Tax Committee of ICAEW Tax Faculty and Chair of other key groups. Nominated by International Tax Review as one of UK’s top tax advisors. Has been listed in Accountancy Age’s “Financial Power List”.




• John Gibbon
• Formerly Managing Director BAE SYSTEMS Pension Funds Investment Management. A director of ING UK Real Estate Income Trust Ltd and JP Morgan Fleming Japanese Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc; adviser to a number of pension funds and member of the Investors’ Committee of the Property Income Trust for Charities.



• Sue Howarth
• A qualified accountant with experience in tax and compliance and until recently was compliance officer and company secretary for Montagu Private Equity.








• Sir Michael Partridge
• Formerly Permanent Secretary of Department of Social Security, non-executive Director of Aviva and The Stationery Office and Chairman (now Pro-Chancellor) of Middlesex University. Currently Director of Harefield Research Foundation, Chairman of Heathfield School and Director of Methodist Ministers' Pension Trust and Epworth Investment Management.

• Colin Pearson
• A qualified actuary and former Investment Manager with AXA Equity & Law. Director of Methodist Ministers’ Pension Trust and Methodist Lay Employees’ Pension Trust and a local preacher in the Ashford Circuit.







• Revd Graham Thompson
• Chair of East Anglia District since 2003. Director of Methodist Ministers’ Pension Trust.









• Peter Thompson
• Former Chairman of National Association of Pension Funds and with Mercer Human Resource Consulting for over twenty years. A well known public speaker on financial matters. Awarded Pensions Management ‘Pensions Personality of the Year 2002”.