Ray Miles - Non-Executive Director and Chairman

Ray Miles became a Non-Executive Director of the Company in June 2006 and served as the Senior Independent Director until he was appointed Chairman on 1 January 2008. Mr Miles has spent most of his career in the shipping industry. From 1988 until December 2005, he was Chief Executive Officer of CP Ships Limited. He was also the Senior Independent Director of Stelmar Shipping Limited from 2004 to 2005. Mr Miles is Deputy Chairman of International Personal Finance PLC which, in July 2007, demerged from Provident Financial PLC and he joined the advisory board of Stena AB in 2006. He is Chairman of the Devon Community Foundation and The Garden Opera Company and a Trustee of Country Holidays for Inner City Kids.

Jamie Buchan - Chief Executive

Jamie Buchan will be appointed as an Executive Director of the Company on 1 January 2009. Between 2002 and May 2008, Mr Buchan, backed by a Malaysian private fund, led the successful turnaround and subsequent sale of the ExCeL Exhibition and Conference centre in London. Prior to that, Mr Buchan held leading roles in hospitality at Whitbread, in customer service and brand development at Centrica, in logistics at Ocean Group and, for 14 years, retail service station operations in Esso which he joined as a graduate trainee in 1981.

Richard Midmer - Group Finance Director

Richard Midmer joined the Company as Group Finance Director on 1 July 2008. He previously worked in the oil and gas sector as Finance Director of British-Borneo Oil & Gas Plc. He joined NHP plc, a quoted care home company, as Group Finance Director in November 2000 where he worked until its acquisition by private equity in February 2005. He is a Non-Executive Director of Rugby Estates Investment Trust plc.

Kamma Foulkes - Group Operations Director

Kamma Foulkes was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company on 3 July 2008. A registered nurse, Kamma has worked within the residential and nursing care sector since the early 1990's. She was an Operations Director for Southern Cross Healthcare from 1998-2003. In October 2003 she joined Highfield Care Limited in the position of Managing Director. She returned to Southern Cross in that role in March 2005, when the Highfield Group was acquired by Southern Cross. Ms. Foulkes became Group Operations Director in early 2007.

Christopher Fisher - Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Christopher Fisher joined the Board in June 2006 and became the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director in January 2008. He is a partner in Penfida, a firm providing independent financial advice to pension fund trustees, and is also a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and Treasurer of Reading University. He spent most of his career at Lazard, the investment bank, where he was a Managing Director, and has also served as Vice Chairman, Corporate Finance, at KPMG, and as a Non-Executive Director of Kelda/Yorkshire Water.

Baroness Morgan of Huyton - Non-Executive Director

Baroness Morgan of Huyton became a Non-Executive Director of the Company in June 2006. A former teacher, Baroness Morgan worked as a senior aide to the British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2005. In 2001, she was made a peer and served as Minister in the Cabinet Office. From 2001 to 2005, she was Director of Government Relations, Downing Street, working closely with the Prime Minister. Baroness Morgan is now working as an adviser to a children's charity, serving on the board of the Olympic Delivery Authority, a member of the advisory boards of Lloyds Pharmacy Limited and Humana Europe Limited and is a Non-Executive Director of Carphone Warehouse PLC.

Nancy Hollendoner - Non-Executive Director

Nancy Hollendoner joined the Board in January 2008. Nancy is a senior adviser on the healthcare market to Hawkpoint Partners Limited. She previously worked as an equities analyst specialising in the healthcare market and was employed by UBS investment bank between 1996 and 2002. Nancy served as a Non-Executive Director of NHP plc between 2003 and 2005.