Board of Directors and Senior Management

Scott Forbes was appointed Chairman of Rightmove plc in July 2005. He is also the Chief Executive of Bridge Capital Advisors Ltd which he founded in 2007. Scott has nearly 30 years' experience in operations, finance and mergers & acquisitions which includes 15 years at Cendant Corporation. Cendant was formerly the largest provider of residential property services worldwide. Scott established the international headquarters in London in 1999 and led this division as Group Managing Director until he joined Rightmove. He was Chairman or Chief Executive of various residential property and travel industry businesses during his tenure at Cendant and held similar roles for other companies in other sectors, including National Car Parks and Green Flag. Prior to his time at Cendant, Scott was a certified public accountant. (Appointed 13 July 2005.)

Ed Williams was appointed to the Board of Rightmove plc in December 2000, shortly after joining the newly founded business as the then Group Managing Director. Ed formed the senior management team that continues to run Rightmove and leads the day-to-day operational management of the Group. He is Chairman of Holiday Lettings Limited in which Rightmove has a two-thirds ownership stake. His prior experience is in business strategy and IT consulting with McKinsey & Co, Accenture and JPMorgan. (Appointed 19 December 2000.)

Nick McKittrick joined Rightmove plc in 2000. He led the development of the Company's original website and then went on to build the new homes, lettings and overseas businesses. At the start of 2005 Nick became the Managing Director of the main Rightmove.co.uk operating subsidiary overseeing a trebling of revenue in three years. In January 2009, he was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director in preparation for the retirement of Graham Zacharias who retired from the Board in April 2009.
Before joining the Company he worked in Accenture for eight years in the technology consulting division. (Appointed to the Board on 5 March 2004.)

Jonathan joined the Board in January 2006 as Senior Independent Director. He is Chairman of Beazley Group, LMS Capital, The Cayenne Trust and Ashmore Global Opportunities. Jonathan was an investment banker for over 25 years, including being a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Group Chief Executive of Kleinwort Benson. He has been Chairman of Nationwide Building Society, Limit and Gerrard Group and has served on the Council of Lloyd's. (Appointed 16 January 2006.) (Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.)

Colin Kemp was appointed to the Board in July 2007. He is Managing Director of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) Retail Network, North Division covering bank branches across Scotland, Northern Ireland and the North of England. With over 25 years' experience in high street retail banking, Colin has worked for HBOS companies since 1979. His roles have included running the HBOS Retail Contact Centres, one of the largest call centre operations in Europe, and heading up the Halifax Employee Share Services business administering employee share plans to over 400 UK companies, including 27 of the FTSE 100. Colin is a Cranfield MBA and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. (Appointed 3 July 2007.)

Ashley Martin joined the Board as a non-executive director and as Audit Committee Chairman on 11 June 2009. He is Group Finance Director of Rok plc, a £1.0 billion turnover maintenance and building services group business and has held this position since September 2003. Prior to Rok plc, Ashley held various positions with Tempus Group plc including Group Finance Director from 1997 to 2002 prior to the sale of the £2 billion turnover media communications group in 2001. Prior to joining Tempus Group, Ashley worked for Grand Metropolitan PLC having qualified as an accountant with Armitage & Norton which is now part of KPMG. (Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Remuneration Committee).

Stephen Shipperley joined the Board on its formation in 2000. Stephen has over 30 years of experience in the property industry. He is Group Executive Chairman of Connells Limited, which has grown to become the second largest estate agency business in the UK with interests in residential estate agency, surveying, financial services, relocations and conveyancing. (Appointed 30 June 2000.)

Judy is Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis International. LexisNexis®, part of the global media group Reed Elsevier PLC, is a leading worldwide provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. Judy is responsible for the International group and their expansion of the range of successful online services to over 100 countries. She is based in London. (Appointed 16 January 2006.) (Member of the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.)

Liz Taylor was appointed Company Secretary of Rightmove plc on 4 July 2006. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and has 20 years' company secretarial experience across a variety of public companies. Prior to joining Rightmove, she was Company Secretary of The Berkeley Group Holdings plc.

Peter joined Rightmove in 2003 as one of the first handful of people developing the New Homes business, a business which he has run since May 2006. He is now responsible for 50 people in Rightmove's fastest growing business unit and is part of the new homes industry community. Prior to Rightmove, Peter worked in sales and sales management, latterly in directory advertising with Yell.

Peter joined Rightmove in 2006 and is responsible for the Estate Agency business and the development of the Rightmove proposition to customers, including the development of the Rightmove Choice products and the website. Peter was formerly a management consultant with Accenture and The Berkeley Partnership working with clients such as BP, Marks & Spencer and Woolwich.

Alan joined Rightmove in 2006 developing new sources of revenue separate from property advertising. He was appointed as Managing Director of Rightmove's Automated Valuation Model division in July 2008. Prior to Rightmove he was a founder of both The Asset Management Group (property disposal and maintenance services) and The Inventory Exchange (online inventory and property inspection).

Simon joined Rightmove in 2007 following seven years at Bloomberg LP where he was responsible for HR operations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to moving into HR, he had managed part of Bloomberg's financial research operation covering new debt and equity security issuance and M&A activity in Europe.

Scott joined Rightmove in 2001 as Finance Director and was Company Secretary until the IPO in 2006. Scott led the preparations for the float on the London Stock Exchange in 2006 and led the recent Scheme of Arrangement to introduce and list a new holding company for the Group. Scott is a director of Holiday Lettings Limited. Scott qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Australia with Ernst & Young.

Robyn joined Rightmove in 2007 and has day-to-day responsibility for the financial operations, based out of Milton Keynes, as well as statutory reporting and the treasury function. She was formerly Group Financial Controller at the online media business, Auto Trader. She qualified as a chartered accountant in South Africa with KPMG.

Miles joined Rightmove as a founding director in 2001 bringing 20 years of experience at senior levels in independent estate agency and with Halifax Estate Agency. He has responsibility for estate agency and media relations, specialising in advising the industry on how the internet is transforming home moving and the state of the housing market. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1982.