Royal Mail Group Plc.

Adam Crozier is Chief Executive of Royal Mail Group and chairman of the Group Executive Team. Before joining Royal Mail, he was Chief Executive of the Football Association while between 1988 and 1999 he held a number of senior roles at Saatchi and Saatchi, including Joint Chief Executive from 1995. Adam is also on the boards of Camelot, the National Lottery operator, and Debenhams plc. He is a member of the President’s Committee of the CBI.

Robin Dargue joined Royal Mail as Group CIO and Technology Director in November 2007 from the world’s leading drinks business Diageo plc, where he was Chief Information Officer and Business Process Director. Robin's early career included stints at Mars and Logica Financial Systems. He moved on to become IS director at UDV, which later became part of Guinness and then Diageo. He became Diageo CIO and was responsible for re-shaping and re-energising the global IS function and successfully introducing new ‘common platform’ business processes across the company's 180 markets and geographies.

Stephen Agar was appointed Managing Director of Royal Mail Wholesale when the business was first created in April 2006, having negotiated the first access agreement for an external company to use Royal Mail’s network in 2004. In this position he is responsible for all access arrangements with companies who want to use Royal Mail for the final delivery. Stephen is a Barrister who started his career in the Government Legal Service before moving to Racal Electronics plc. He joined Royal Mail in 1991 and previous roles with Royal Mail include Business Strategy Director in Royal Mail's Marketing Division and Regulatory Affairs Director.

Alex joined Royal Mail in 2004. He is responsible for helping the Group develop and deliver its strategy. Prior to joining Royal Mail, Alex was a consultant with McKinsey & Company from 1987 until 2004 in the UK and East Asia. During that time he served clients across a range of industries on questions of strategy, organisation and operations. Latterly, during five years in Asia, he focused on Corporate Finance particularly in the financial institutions sector. Alex has degrees in Mathematics from London and Cambridge and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Ian Duncan was appointed as Finance Director of Royal Mail Group in September 2006. He joined from Westinghouse Electric Company based in the USA, where he had been Chief Financial Officer since 1999. Prior to joining Westinghouse, Ian was Corporate Finance Director at British Nuclear Fuels plc. Before that Ian was in corporate finance with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Ltd and Lloyds Merchant Bank Ltd. He started his career with Deloitte & Touche in London. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales since 1985.

Mary Fagan joined Royal Mail Group in December 2003 as Corporate and Government Affairs Director. A respected senior City and Industrial journalist, Mary’s previous roles included Deputy City Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, industrial correspondent for the Independent and city reporter at the Evening Standard.

Jonathan Evans joined the company directly from university in 1974. Before his appointment as Company Secretary in 1999, he held a wide range of senior management positions throughout the Group. He is a trustee of the Royal Mail Pension Plan and Chairman of the Royal Mail Senior Executive Pension Plan, and a member of the GLS Supervisory Board.

Alan Cook was appointed to the post of Managing Director of Post Office Ltd in March 2006. Reporting to Royal Mail Group Chief Executive Adam Crozier, he is responsible for developing the Post Office network in its key role of serving 24 million customers nationwide each week. He had been a non-executive member of the Board of Post Office Ltd since April 2005. Alan was previously Chief Executive of National Savings and Investments from 2002. He began his career at the Prudential in 1970, becoming Managing Director of General Insurance in 1997 and Chief Executive of Insurance Services in 1999. He is a member of the Council at the Institute of Financial Services, a Chartered Insurer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management and a freeman of the City of London.

Andrew Carr-Locke was appointed a Director of Venture on 3 March 2008. He was Finance Director of George Wimpey PLC for six years until June 2007 when the company merged with Taylor Woodrow. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, Andrew has extensive experience of working at a senior level in a number of high profile roles. Before joining George Wimpey he was Group Finance Director of Courtaulds Textiles plc, prior to which he was European Finance Director at United Distillers and Vintners. Andrew was also a Non-Executive Director of the utility company AWG plc from 2003 until it was successfully sold and delisted in 2007.

Helen A Weir CBE: Group Executive Director, Retail Joined the board in 2004 as group finance director. Appointed as group executive director, UK retail banking in April 2008. Group finance director of Kingfisher from 2000 to 2004. Previously finance director of B&Q from 1997, having joined that company in 1995, and held a senior position at McKinsey & Co from 1990 to 1995. Began her career at Unilever in 1983. A non-executive director of Royal Mail Holdings. A member of the Said Business School Advisory Board and a former member of the Accounting Standards Board. Aged 46.

Baroness Margaret Prosser joined the Board in November 2004 and has been a Member of the House of Lords since 2004. Margaret is a Non-Executive Director of the Trade Union Funds Managers and has been Chair of the Women and Work Commission since July 2004. She is also Deputy Chair of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

Richard Handover was appointed to the Board in January 2003. Until 2007 he was Chairman of the Adult Learning Inspectorate and Business in the Community Education Leadership and a Non-Executive Director of the Nationwide Building Society. He was Chairman of W H Smith plc until the end of January 2005.