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AIRPORT COORDINATION LIMITED
Board of Directors
ACL is governed by a board of
four independent non-executive
directors, directors nominated by
our members and two executive
directors.
Meet our Board
I n dep en dent Di rec to r I n dep en dent D i re c to r
Ailsa Beaton OBE Catherine Brown
ABOUT AILSA A B O U T C AT H E R I N E
Appointed 1 October 2018 Appointed 31 October 2017
Ailsa Beaton OBE was a Alongside a career that
Chair Management Board member included senior roles in the
at the Metropolitan Police public and private sector,
Lesley Cowley OBE Service, the Chief Information Catherine has extensive
Officer at ICL plc and a Senior experience as a non-executive
Partner at PA Consulting Board Member. As a qualified
Group. She started her career accountant and an ex member
as an accountant before of the senior civil service,
moving into information Catherine brings to the board
ABOUT LESLEY
technology with General a focus on governance and
Appointed 1 January 2020 Electric (USA). strategy and an awareness
She now has a portfolio of of effective regulation
non-executive roles. These gained in her previous role
Lesley is a portfolio non-executive director and include being a non-executive as Chief Executive of the
independent Chair. Her experience includes chairing the director on the board of the Food Standards Agency, the
boards of the DVLA, The National Archives and Companies Information Commissioner’s regulator for the UK food
House. She was previously CEO of Nominet, the .uk domain Office, being a governor of the industry.
name registry, a role she held from 2004 to 2014. She Legal Education Foundation
has a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA), and sitting as a magistrate in
awarded with distinction in 1997 from the Bristol Business London. Ailsa was formerly an
School, University of the West of England. In 2015, she was independent non-executive
awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Technology by director in the UK payments
the University of the West of England. Lesley was made an industry.
OBE for services to the Internet and e-commerce in 2011. In
October 2019, she was named as Non-Executive Director of
the year in the Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards.
Ind epe n d e nt D i re c tor Nominated Director Nominated Director Nominated Director
Valerie Gordon-Walker Ian Chambers Julian Homerstone David Lawrence
A B O U T VA L E R I E ABOUT Ian ABOUT JULIAN A B O U T DAV I D
Appointed 1 October 2018 Appointed 26 May 2021 Appointed 16 December 2016 Appointed 3 May 2018
Named by Cranfield’s FTSE Ian is the Digital Director at Julian has been General David has worked in the
Board Report as one of easyJet & easyJet holidays. Counsel at Virgin Atlantic aviation industry for more
the 100 Senior Women to He is a senior leader with since 2014. At Virgin Atlantic, than 30 years, at British
Watch, Valerie is a former extensive marketing, digital, he has responsibility for legal Airways, Malaysia Airlines
Managing Director, Executive e-commerce and brand affairs, company secretariat, and Tui Airways, and bring a
Committee Member and building experience in the risk and insurance and the wide range of commercial,
Group Head of People. Valerie travel industry. Ian has many data protection/compliance operational and regulatory
has a strong non- executive years’ experience in the functions. Julian is also a experience. His current role
portfolio career in the private aviation industry having member of Virgin Atlantic’s is General Manager Aviation
and public sector. She is a previously worked in high- senior leadership group and Planning at Tui.
Non- Executive Director at level digital and marketing acts as principal advisor on
Tokio Marine Kiln Ltd., Lloyd’s positions at TUI and Monarch a broad spectrum of legal
Managing Agents and a Board airlines. issues.
member and Chair of the
Remuneration Committee for Julian was highlighted as one
BPDTS Ltd. (at the DWP). of the most influential in-house
Valerie has been an lawyers in business by the
Independent Senior Advisor Legal 500 in its UK GC Power
to the Financial Conduct list in 2016 and in 2020 he was
Authority and the Prudential recognised by the Legal 500
Regulation Authority at the as its In-house Counsel of the
Bank of England and remains a Year (Transport).
Board Advisor to multinational
corporations focusing on
strategy, governance and
culture, board and executive
mentoring.
Nominated Director Nominated Director ACL CEO AC L F i n a n c e D i re c to r
Chris Groom Gavin Molloy Neil Garwood Jo Clarke
ABOUT CHRIS ABOUT Gavin ABOUT Neil ABOUT JO
Appointed 29 July 2020 Appointed 1 March 2021 Appointed 1 February 2021 Appointed 1 October 2014
Chris is the General Manager ‘Gavin Molloy is Head of Neil was appointed as the Jo has been the Finance
in Commercial Planning at Infrastructure and Airport CEO of Airport Coordination Director at Airport Coordination
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. Development at British Limited in March 2021 and Limited. since 2011. Jo is a
Chris has worked for Jet2 for Airways (BA). Gavin also is the first ACL CEO with qualified accountant with over
nearly ten years developing serves as the Chair of the an airport management 30 years of airline industry
a wealth of experience in London Airport Consultative background. Neil was experience. Her background
commercial planning and Committee where he formerly Managing Director includes commercial, financial
market development. He leads airline community of Southampton Airport, and engineering roles. Jo
has a first-class Masters in engagement with Heathrow. where he had been for ten started her career as an
Aeronautical and Aerospace Before joining BA, Gavin years, having risen through aircraft engineer. She has a
engineering gained from the worked for United Airlines as the ranks after initially joining Masters degree in Business
University of Leeds. vice president of corporate them as Terminal Operations Administration from Lancaster
real estate and environmental Manager in 2010. Neil was University and a BEng in Air
affairs and as managing promoted across several Transport Engineering.
director of strategic sourcing roles at Southampton
at United Airlines. While there, Airport including Head
Gavin served as founding of Customer Service and
President of EQUAL– a group then Head of Operations
for the LGBTQ+ community– before becoming Managing
and was recognised as one Director.
of Chicago’s most influential
LGBTQ+ executives in 2018 by
Crain’s Chicago.
Gavin has spent his career in
aviation including time at City
Jet and Amadeus and Virgin
Atlantic Airways,’
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