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Directors & Committees

Below is a list of the Directors of Impact Holdings (UK) Plc and their responsibilities. We have, where applicable, listed any committees of the board of directors and any directors of any of the subsidiary compaines.

Main Board of Directors

Subsidiary Directors

Committees

The Support Team

Board of Directors

Roger Barlow (Chairman) Roger is a qualified accountant and is presently Chairman of the Marsden Building Society and Non Executive Director and Chair of Audit at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. Roger was previously a senior Audit Partner with KPMG before becoming a board member on various private and public companies. He was Executive Director and CFO of Libertas Capital Group plc, an AIM listed company, until November 2007, and thereafter served as a Non Executive Director.

Richard Kilsby (Non-Executive Director) Richard is a qualified chartered accountant and spent his early career as an employee and partner in PriceWaterhouse. He has held senior management positions at Bankers Trust and Charterhouse and was an executive director of the London Stock Exchange Plc. He is currently a non-executive director of Collins Stewart Tullett PLC and non-executive chairman of 888.com Holdings plc, both of which are listed on the Official List.

John Russell (Non-Executive Director) John is an experienced and successful businessman who has significant experience in the strategic development of businesses. John is a director of Sutherland Professional Funding Limited and following its acquisition by Impact he was appointed to the PLC Board as an important part of the continuity plan moving forward. John has previously been President and Treasurer of the Freight Transport Association and Chairman of the Scottish Business Crime Centre. John is presently a committee member of the CBI Scotland Council, Director of Alloa Warehousing Co Limited, and KKR Limited and is Chairman of John G. Russell Transport Limited, Carntyne Transport Co. Limited, Fife Warehousing Company Limited and Icetech Freezers Limited.

Paul Davies (Chief Executive) Paul joined Impact in late 2006 and has successfully implemented the restructuring of the business and strengthening of the Board turning the business from a £6.5 million loss in 2007 to a £290,000 profit in 2009. Paul was previously Deputy Chief Executive of the Manchester Building Society and held senior positions within a number of banking institutions. He is a qualified banker and has experience as a main board executive of financial institutions with knowledge of corporate, international and personal finance gained within an International Bank, Clearing Bank and Building Society environment.

Stuart Burn (Operations Director) Stuart spent many years managing the financial and strategic functions within a number of well known Solicitor practices in the North East and North West. His knowledge of Solicitor practices, Solicitor Accounts Rules and matters affecting law firms reinforces the company’s specialist lending offering.

David Hughes (Legal Director) David became Legal Director and Managing Director of the Group’s property businesses in May 2009. David joined Impact in May 2008 as a Non-Executive Director where he acted in an advisory capacity on all legal and property related matters. David is a Solicitor and member of the Law Society and has held a number of senior positions, the most recent being a Partner of Yaffe Jackson Ostrin Solicitors where he was responsible primarily for dealing with major commercial clients of the practice. David also has considerable property interests in both the UK and Europe.

Subsidiary Directors

Committees

Audit Committee
Chairman : R. Kilsby
Membership during the year : R. Barlow, J. Russell
The committee meets to consider systems and controls including risk systems, compliance with statuory and regulatory requirements, and to receive reports from the Group's internal and external auditors.

Remumeration Committee
Chairman : R. Barlow
Membership during the year : R. Kilsby, J. Russell
The Remumeration Committee is responsible for ensuring that the remumeration of the executive directors is sufficient to reward and retain the skills and commitment necessary to enable Impact Holdings (UK) Plc to make progress in a highly competitive business sector. The Committee is committed to compliance with best practice as set out in the Combined Code.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS' EMOLUMENTS
The remuneration arrangements for the executive directors are as follows:

• their salaries are reviewed by committee annually.
• they participate in a bonus scheme based on the Groups relative performance.
• they receive other taxable benefits of a car, or car allowance, and private health care.
• they are members of the Group personal pension scheme which is available to all eligible employees

The Head Office Functions

Lee-Sara Davis (Head of Compliance & Credit Risk) Lee-Sara is a CeMAP qualified graduate and has experience in departmental project coordination and relationship management in a financial services environment. Her role at Impact includes credit risk collation, review and analysis, internal company audits, controlling corporate governance documentation and compliance across the Group, as well as human resource duties. She is also company secretary for the six subsidiary companies in the Impact Group.

Rob Faulkner (Head of IT) Rob is responsible for the development of the Veracity system, currently used to run and maintain the solicitor lending book. Degree educated, he gained initial experience in development and project management working for a large food retailer and has built on this further in recent years with Impact refining internal systems and procedures and liaising with external suppliers to ensure all areas of the business make maximum use of available technology.

Andy Christley (IT Manager) Originally a Biochemistry/Biotechnology graduate Andy has gained extensive experience in web design and development having worked on large projects in previous roles both as designer and project leader. His detailed knowledge of current design technologies and practice ensure Impact remain at the forefront with new innovations. In addition to maintaining the various company sites he also developed the Salus system used to maintain, manage and monitor the property bridging loan book.

Nella Filova (Accounts Clerk) Nella is AAT qualified and now wishes to study towards her CIMA qualification. She has a strong finance background providing excellent support to Impact’s Head of Finance. Nella is responsible for payments to third parties, monthly management accounts for the Group subsidiaries, VAT returns, sales and purchase ledger management and general accounts queries from all suppliers and customers.

Jodie Cullen (Office Administrator) With extensive office administration experience and partially AAT trained, Jodie provides the Impact team with support in area’s of accounting, internal reports and general day to day office management. The first contact point for any queries from solicitors and external business parties, Jodie deals with all aspects of queries relating to the Impact and Sutherland solicitor lending portfolio’s. Jodie is also first aid trained and responsible for fire risk assessment and health & safety.

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