Graham Sherren, Chairman
Graham has spent most of his career running business-to-business publishing companies starting in 1964
with Product Journal Limited. In 1968, Product Journal Limited was acquired by Morgan Grampian plc. He
ran Morgan Grampian (including subsequent to its takeover by Trafalgar House Investments plc) until 1982
when he established Centaur.
Geoffrey Wilmot, Chief Executive Officer
Geoff joined Centaur in September 1998 as Group Finance Director. He qualified as a chartered accountant
with Binder Hamlyn in 1979. Immediately prior to joining Centaur, he was Chief Financial Officer of the
legal and professional division within the Thomson Corporation. He has also previously worked for
Morgan Crucible plc in a variety of roles and as Finance Director of Dexion Group plc and Scruttons plc.
Michael Lally, Group Finance Director
Mike joined Centaur in April 2001 as UK Finance Director and was appointed to the Board as Group Finance Director in November 2006. He has extensive experiance of the media and Entertainment sector having held senior financial and management positions at the Financial Times, United News and Reuters and immediately prior to joining Centaur was Finance Director of the Informa Publishing group.
Patrick Taylor, Non-executive Director
Patrick was formerly chief executive of GWR Group plc, the UK's largest commercial radio group ranked
by licences and audiences. Before joining GWR, Patrick was group finance director of Capital Radio plc. A
qualified chartered accountant, Patrick began his career at Coopers & Lybrand and became a partner with
the practice in 1980, specialising in corporate finance. He is a non-executive director of The Future
Network PLC.
Thomas Scruby, Non-executive Director
Tom was appointed a director of Centaur in 1989. Since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1957 he
has held senior executive and non-executive positions in a range of public and private commercial
businesses and corporate finance advisory organisations. He is non-executive Chairman of Linguaphone
Group plc and Questor VCT plc, and a non-executive director of Questor VCT 2 plc.
Colin Morrison, Non-executive Director
Colin is CEO of the UK division of Australian Consolidated Press. During 2001-3, he was Chief Operating
Officer of The Future Network PLC, seeing the company through a period of successful reorganisation. He
has managed B-to-B publishing operations in the UK for Reed and Emap, and consumer magazines in the
Asia Pacific region and across Europe for Australian Consolidated Press and Axel Springer.
Christopher Satterhwaite, Non-executive Director
Chris began his commercial career as a graduate trainee at H.J Heinz. Since his grounding on the client side, he has been part of three different kind of marketing communication agencies, IMP 1981-1993, then the UK's largest Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing agency; HHCL & Partners 1993-2000, Campaign's Advertising Agency of the Decade; Bell Pottinger 2000-2002, the UK's leading Public Relations agency. Chris was appointed Chief Executive of Chime Communications PLC in 2002.
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