ATKINSON STILGOE - Key Persons


Adrian Pitt

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Managing Director
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Adrian Scott

Job Titles:
  • Group Mortgage Services Director
Adrian is the Group Mortgage Services Director for Connells Group's expansive nationwide branch network. This comprises over 1,000 mortgage consultants providing mortgage and protection advice across 1,200 offices, trading under a number of estate agency brand names, along with The New Homes Group, the UK's leading specialist new homes mortgage services business. Adrian was previously Head of Lending at Kent Reliance. Prior to that he was Managing Director at Heritable Bank Mortgages and Director of Mortgage Distribution for Bradford & Bingley.

Alex Jamieson


Alexander Barrett


David Plumtree

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Executive ( Estate Agency )
David joined the company in 1988 starting his career as a negotiator and mortgage consultant in one of the Group's William H Brown branches in East Anglia. Having performed roles at every level, he became the Chief Executive of Sequence in 2006 and then took responsibility for the whole of Connells Group's branch network as Group Estate Agency Chief Executive in 2013. David has overall responsibility for all the Group's estate agency, mortgage services and lettings operations across its 1,200 strong branch network. During his tenure, Connells Group has become the market leader in the UK and sells more properties than any other estate agent.

Gary Young


Geoff Splevings


Giles Hart

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • National Operations Director

Iain Berry

Job Titles:
  • Land Director - Horsham

Ian Fry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • National Operations Director

Jason Willetts

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Managing Director - Land & New Homes / Connells Group

Jeffrey Servent


Jonathan Severn


Mark Evans


Matthew Taylor


Mike Peters


Patrick Addison


Paul Edgington

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Managing Director
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Richard Twigg - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Group Chief Executive
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
Richard is a Chartered Accountant who joined the Skipton Group in 1993 as Head of Finance of Homeloan Management and in 1996, following the acquisition by Skipton, he was appointed Finance Director of Connells. In 2002 he was appointed to the Skipton Board and served as Group Finance Director until 2014. In 2014 Richard re-joined Connells Group as Group Finance and Commercial Director where he has responsibility for Group and subsidiary finance, acquisitions and development initiatives as well as all head office support functions. He has a thorough knowledge of the Group from his many years of involvement. Most recently, Richard was appointed as the interim Group Chief Executive.

Rob Jenner

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Managing Director
  • Member of the Senior Management Team

Rob Matthewson


Rob Price


Roger Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Group Land & New Homes Director
Roger joined Connells as a Sales Negotiator in 1983 having previously worked as a site manager for Charter Homes, a Birmingham-based residential developer. He rose quickly through the ranks to Area Manager responsible for Connells Residential offices across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. In 1989, he became Land Director for Connells based in Northampton, where he progressed and developed the Connells Land operation and, in 2019, he was appointed to the position of Group Land & New Homes Managing Director responsible for the Land & New Homes operation across the whole Group.

Stephen Nation

Job Titles:
  • Group Lettings Managing Director
Stephen has over 30 years' experience in residential lettings, starting his career as a letting agent in Kent before becoming an Area Manager in Surrey, then Regional Director and in 2002 appointed Managing Director of a national lettings chain. Stephen joined Connells Group in 2010 to initially run lettings in Sequence and was appointed to oversee residential lettings across the Group in 2013. Since then, he has presided over rapid growth through cold starts and acquisitions, more than doubling the network of lettings branches and the number of tenancies being managed.

Stuart Dare

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Senior Management Team
  • Managing Director - Mortgage Services

Tim Gilbert