SIRIUS REAL ESTATE - Key Persons
Andrew Coombs joined the Sirius Group in January 2010. Prior to joining Sirius, Andrew worked for the Regus Group as UK sales director and before that as director and general manager for MWB Business Exchange Plc. Prior to working in the property sector, Andrew held a number of general management roles. Andrew's responsibilities to Sirius Real Estate include formulating and agreeing the Group strategy for delivering shareholder value. He is also responsible for Overseeing the execution of the Group strategy across the operating companies owned by the Sirius Group as well as contributing strategic advice to Titanium, the Group's joint venture with AXA IM Alts
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Senior Independent Director
Caroline is a Chartered Accountant and was an audit partner at Deloitte LLP from April 2000 to May 2018, having qualified with its predecessor firm Touche Ross & Co. In addition to providing audit and advisory services in the financial services sector, Caroline ran the FTSE 250 Deloitte NextGen CFO programme. Caroline is a non-executive director of Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC and Revolut Limited, at both of which she chairs the audit committees. Caroline will become the Chair of the Company's Audit Committee at the close of the Annual General Meeting to be held on 31 July 2020.
Chris joined Sirius on 20 July 2023 and became a member of the Board on 29 August 2023.
Chris brings nearly 25 years' accounting, finance and capital markets experience. Most recently Chris led the UK investment banking arm of Berenberg, a business division which he was brought in to build from new eight years ago and has grown to become one of the UK's leading mid-market public company advisers.
Prior to this, Chris spent seven years in investment banking at Liberum, before which he worked in corporate finance at Canaccord and Credit Lyonnais. Chris qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in 2000.
As CFO, Chris manages the day-to-day financial operations and reporting for the Group, and its risk framework. Chris works alongside the Chief Executive Officer in delivering the Group's strategy.
Danny Kitchen brings more than 25 years of property and finance experience in both the listed and private markets. After 14 years in corporate finance and M&A with the Investment Bank of Ireland, he was appointed in 1994 as chief finance officer of Green Property PLC, an Irish listed property company. In 2003 he left to join Heron International as group finance director and deputy chief executive. He is currently non- executive chairman of Hibernia REIT plc and was non-executive chairman of Applegreen PLC. Danny was appointed chairman of Irish Nationwide Building Society between 2008 and 2011 and was a Director of the Irish Takeover Panel until 5 June 2020.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Director and Co - Founder of the Principle Capital Group
James Peggie is a director and co-founder of the Principle Capital Group and prior to that was head of legal and corporate affairs at the Active Value group. He is a qualified solicitor and, before working at Active Value, he worked in the corporate finance division of an international law firm. James graduated from the University of Oxford in 1992 and in 1994 from The College of Law. James has a wealth of experience as a director of various publicly listed and private companies, including Liberty plc from 2006 to 2010.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
- Non - Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chair for Both Welsh Water
Joanne Kenrick has had a commercial marketing career spanning over 30 years and has extensive listed, private and charitable board experience. For five years until 2015 she was the marketing and digital director for Homebase, prior to which she was chief executive officer of Start, where she established and oversaw HRH the Prince of Wales's public facing initiative for a more sustainable future. Joanne's former roles include marketing and customer proposition director for B&Q and marketing director at Camelot Group plc. She was previously a non-executive director of Principality Building Society for six years, during which time she was also a member of the audit and conduct risk committees. Joanne has a degree in law and started her career at Mars Confectionery and PepsiCo.
Joanne Kenrick is currently a non-executive Director and remuneration committee chair for both Welsh Water and Coventry Building Society, as well as being deputy chair and the senior independent director for the latter; and chair of Switching Services Participant Committee and of PayM for Pay.uk. She is also chair of trustees of the charity Make Some Noise.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Kelly is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified in New Zealand in 2001 at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and has worked in real estate in the UK since 2004. She is currently Head of Investment for British Land Co PLC, the FTSE100 REIT, where she has worked for more than nine years, including roles in strategy and corporate finance. Kelly previously held roles in corporate finance at the Grosvenor Group and as a financial analyst at Burberry Group PLC.
Job Titles:
- Independent Non - Executive Director
Mark Cherry is a Chartered Surveyor having qualified in 1983 and brings a wealth of Real Estate knowledge in the investment and asset management markets. Mark was a main board director of Green Property PLC for 10 years, dealing with the UK market and left on the sale of the UK portfolio in 2003. Subsequently he held a board level role at Teesland plc, a Fund and Asset manager specialising in small industrial estates with offices throughout Europe, including three in Germany. Mark was asked to join Lloyds Banking Group as the head of asset management within the real estate "bad bank", where he was responsible for setting up a number of initiatives to optimise recovery proceeds from defaulted loans. He is currently employed by Invesco Asset Management Limited as their advisor to the Real Estate lending team. He holds no further non-executive directorship positions.