Carillion's directors in the Companies House register

analysisCompanies House lists 32 officer entries for Carillion plc, company number 03782379, and marks 25 of them as resigned. The other seven are directorships shown as active with no termination date: those of Keith Robertson Cochrane, Andrew James Harrower Dougal, Philip Nevill Green, Alison Jane Horner, Alan Charles Lovell, Baroness Sally Morgan and Justin Richard Read. The same register records Carillion plc as in compulsory liquidation, with the winding up commencing on 15 January 2018, yet the officer list records no termination for any of these seven appointments. Emma Mercer does not appear in the list. ^{1 2}

analysisThe seven open entries date from 2011 to 2017. Philip Green was appointed a director on 1 June 2011 and Andrew Dougal on 3 October 2011, Alison Horner on 1 December 2013 and Keith Cochrane on 2 July 2015. Three more followed in the second half of 2017: Baroness Morgan of Huyton on 1 July, Alan Lovell on 1 November and Justin Read on 1 December 2017. For each of them the officer list shows the appointment as active, and for Philip Green and Baroness Morgan the officer record behind the Carillion plc entry lists this single appointment. ^{1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

analysisThe list also contains a second director entry under the name Philip Nevill Green, recorded as appointed and resigned on the same day, 1 June 2011, the date of the active Green appointment. Each of the two entries rests on its own officer record, and each of those records lists only its one Carillion plc appointment. ^{1 10 3}

analysisTwo company secretaries appear on the list. Dirk Olaf Fitzhugh held the post from 28 May 1999 to 1 December 2001, and Richard Francis Tapp from 1 December 2001 to 25 June 2018, a resignation dated after the winding up of Carillion plc commenced on 15 January 2018. A second officer record under Fitzhugh's name, with the same correspondence details as his Carillion plc entry, lists three appointments, among them company secretary of Carillion Nominees Limited from 21 July 1999 to 1 December 2001, the day his Carillion plc secretaryship ended. ^{1 2 11}

analysisRichard Tapp's own officer record lists 119 appointments. It shows him as company secretary of Carillion Nominees Limited from 1 December 2001 to 18 December 2018 and as director and company secretary of Carillion Group Limited from 1 December 2001 with no end date recorded; both companies are shown as dissolved. It still shows him as an active director of Marchwiel Properties Limited and active company secretary of Carillion AM Developments Limited, both appointments dated 12 February 2008, in two companies the register records as in liquidation. A directorship of The Centre for Tomorrow's Company from 25 February 2017 likewise has no resignation date, and that company is shown as dissolved. ¹²

analysisSix director entries begin on 28 May 1999: those of Christopher Brooke, Euan McEwan, Jean Paul Parayre, Roger Robinson, Bernard Sharples and Sir Neville Simms. Alan Coppin was appointed on 8 June 1999, Christopher Girling on 8 November 1999, Andrew Parrish on 31 March 2000, Roger Dickens on 24 May 2000 and John McDonough on 1 January 2001. McEwan's term ended on 30 April 2001 and Sharples's on 16 May 2001; Brooke and Coppin both left on 31 December 2001. Parayre's entry ends on 7 December 2004, Simms's and Parrish's on 11 May 2005, Dickens's on 2 December 2005, Girling's on 30 April 2007 and Robinson's on 6 May 2009, while McDonough remained a director until 31 December 2011. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

analysisFor two of these directors, the register dates directorships of other companies bearing the Carillion name from 1996, before their Carillion plc entries of 28 May 1999. Roger Robinson's officer record, which lists 96 appointments, shows directorships of Carillion Construction Limited and Postworth Limited from 1 January 1996, of Carillion Private Finance Limited and Integrated Accommodation Services plc from 16 May 2001, of Carillion Holdings Limited from 15 November 2004 and of Infrastructure Investments (Defence) Limited from 28 April 2006, all ending on 30 June 2009, later than the end of his Carillion plc directorship on 6 May 2009; the Carillion (AMBS) Limited officer list records him there from 12 February 2008 to 30 June 2009. Companies House still shows him as an active director of Carillion Civil Engineering Limited, appointed on 1 January 1996, a company it records as in liquidation. Euan McEwan's record, with 123 appointments, shows directorships of Carillion Construction Overseas Limited from 1 March 1996 and Carillion LGS Limited from 14 May 1996, both ending on 30 April 2001 with his Carillion plc directorship, and of G4S Carillion Limited and Semperian (Fazakerley) Limited from 16 November 1999 to 16 May 2001. ^{7 8 9 1}

analysisChristopher Girling's record lists 97 appointments. It shows him as a director of Carillion Construction Limited, Carillion Private Finance Limited, Carillion Professional Services Limited and Carillion GB Limited from 8 November 1999, the day of his Carillion plc appointment, and of Carillion Group Limited and Sovereign Harbour Waterfront Holdings Limited from 16 May 2001, all to 2 April 2007. He was also a director of Carillion Pensions Limited from 4 May 2001 to 20 June 2007, Carillion Pension Trustees Limited from 4 May 2001 to 30 April 2007 and Carillion Trustees Limited from 16 May 2001 to 29 June 2007; all three are shown as dissolved. John McDonough's record, with 86 appointments, shows directorships of Carillion Construction Limited from 1 February 2001, Carillion Holdings Limited from 15 November 2004 and Carillion (AMBS) Limited from 12 February 2008, the same day as Robinson's, each ending on 31 December 2011 with his Carillion plc directorship. ^{3 6 8 1 7}

analysisDirectors of this first period also held board seats in Tarmac companies and other companies. Christopher Brooke's record, with 40 appointments, shows him as a director of Tarmac Holdings (THL) Limited from 20 April 1994 to 29 July 1999, of Candover Investments plc from before 15 May 1991 to 11 May 1999, of SEGRO Public Limited Company from before 1 June 1992 to 15 May 2001, of Foresight Enterprise VCT plc from 4 February 1998 to 10 December 2012 and of IP Group plc from 20 December 2001 to 31 August 2011. Roger Dickens's record lists 29 appointments: directorships of KPMG Audit Limited from 3 October 1995 to 30 September 1998, of Tarmac Holdings (THL) Limited from 1 October 1998 and Tarmac Group Limited from 24 May 1999, both until 14 March 2000, before his Carillion plc appointment, and, during his Carillion plc term, of The National Exhibition Centre Limited (10 December 1998 to 29 January 2006), iSOFT Solutions Limited (21 July 2000 to 22 April 2004) and Headlam Group plc (6 February 2004 to 29 January 2006). ^{2 5 1}

analysisOther records of this group show appointments around and after their Carillion plc terms. Andrew Parrish's record, with 21 appointments, shows him as a director of Senior plc from 1 January 1997 to 22 March 2000, shortly before his Carillion plc appointment on 31 March 2000, and of UCAS Media Limited from 10 June 2005 to 9 June 2009. Christopher Girling joined the board of Elementis plc on 29 April 2005 and stayed until 31 July 2013, and was a director of Slaughter and May Pensions Trustees Limited from 26 June 2007 to 25 April 2024 and of Arco Limited from 22 November 2007 to 30 November 2014. ^{4 1 3}

analysisEuan McEwan was a director of AWG Group Limited from 10 October 2002 to 14 April 2004 and of Currie & Brown International Limited from 1 February 2006 to 17 January 2013, and is shown as an active director of Case Estates Limited from 1 January 2026 and of Case Property No. 1 Limited from 4 August 2026. John McDonough was a director of Black Country Consortium Limited, since dissolved, from 1 April 2011 to 30 March 2012. A second officer record under the name Neville Ian Simms, with registry details matching his Carillion plc entry, lists two directorships, of Equiniti Enterprises Limited from 1 July 2009 and Equiniti X2 Enterprises Limited from 25 March 2010, both ending on 31 August 2011; both companies are shown as dissolved. ^{9 6 10}

analysisNine director entries begin between September 2004 and December 2009: David Garman on 7 September 2004, Philip Rogerson on 1 October 2004, Vanda Murray on 1 June 2005, David Maloney on 1 November 2005, Thomas Kenny and Steven Mogford on 6 September 2006, Richard Adam on 2 April 2007, David Hurcomb on 1 January 2008 and Richard Howson on 10 December 2009, two days after Hurcomb's term ended on 8 December 2009. Kenny left on 31 August 2010, Garman on 4 May 2011 and Maloney on 3 October 2011; Rogerson's and Murray's entries both end on 7 May 2014, Mogford's on 31 December 2015 and Adam's on 31 December 2016. Howson's directorship is recorded as ending on 10 July 2017. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

analysisRichard Howson's officer record lists 61 appointments. It records him as a director of Carillion Construction Limited from 10 December 2009; of Carillion Services Limited, Carillion Services 2006 Limited and Carillion (AMBS) Limited from 15 December 2010; of Carillion JM Limited and Carillion MENA Limited from 6 February 2012; and of Amber LEP Investments Limited from 19 October 2012. Each of these directorships, like every other directorship on the first page of his list apart from John Wood Group Limited, is recorded as ending on 15 January 2018, the day the winding up of Carillion plc commenced, although his Carillion plc directorship had ended on 10 July 2017. His directorship of John Wood Group Limited ran from 12 May 2016 to 17 January 2018. ^{8 9 10 1}

analysisRichard Adam's record lists 163 appointments. The Carillion (AMBS) Limited officer list records him as a director there from 12 February 2008 to 31 October 2016, before his Carillion plc directorship ended on 31 December 2016. In his last years on the Carillion plc board he was also a director of Countrywide Limited (9 June 2014 to 25 April 2018) and Countryside Partnerships Limited (17 December 2015 to 31 December 2017), and after it he became a director of FirstGroup plc (24 February 2017 to 2 February 2018) and BMT Group Limited (1 May 2017 to 17 January 2018). ^{7 9 1}

analysisThomas Kenny's record, with 50 appointments, shows directorships of Schal International Management Limited from 1 January 2005 and Planned Maintenance Engineering Limited from 8 March 2005, both ending on 31 August 2010 with his Carillion plc directorship, and of Lavendon Group Limited from 1 October 2011 to 30 October 2020. A second record under his name, with registry details matching his Carillion plc entry, lists 25 appointments, among them Lavendon Holdings Limited and Nationwide Platforms Limited (3 January 2012 to 30 October 2020), Blue Sky Topco Limited and Bluesky Solutions Limited (10 September 2018 to 30 October 2020) and Balcombe Breeze Limited (5 February 2021 to 29 February 2024). ^{5 1 11}

analysisSeveral directors of this period held seats on other boards during and after their Carillion plc terms. Philip Rogerson's main record, with 36 appointments, shows him as a director of Aggreko Limited (28 August 1997 to 25 April 2012), ZIGUP plc (5 November 2003 to 31 December 2009), THUS Group Limited (1 September 2004 to 2 October 2008) and Bunzl Public Limited Company (1 January 2010 to 15 April 2020), and as a member of Ingenious Film Partners LLP (4 February 2005 to 6 April 2010). David Maloney's record, with 149 appointments, shows Micro Focus International Limited (4 April 2005 to 25 September 2014), Cineworld Group plc (22 May 2006 to 26 May 2015), Ei Group Limited (10 July 2008 to 5 July 2018) and Stock Spirits Group Limited (21 October 2013 to 29 November 2021). Steven Mogford's main record, with 20 appointments, shows BAE Systems plc (1 April 2000 to 9 May 2007), Leonardo UK Ltd (1 January 2008 to 1 January 2011), United Utilities Group plc (5 January 2011 to 31 March 2023) and Water Plus Group Limited (1 June 2016 to 26 April 2023). ^{2 4 6}

analysisVanda Murray's record, with 35 appointments, shows directorships of SIG plc (1 July 2009 to 16 March 2011), Manchester Airports Holdings Limited (28 February 2013 to 31 March 2024), Bunzl Public Limited Company (1 February 2015 to 24 April 2024) and Yorkshire Water Services Limited (1 July 2021 to 30 September 2026), so that Bunzl appears on both her record and Rogerson's. Companies House shows her as an active director of Marshalls plc from 9 May 2018, of Howden Joinery Group plc from 1 February 2024 and of English National Opera from 26 February 2026. The Marshalls plc officer list, with 30 officers of whom 22 have resigned, includes three former Carillion plc directors: Alan Coppin, a director from 12 May 2010 to 18 May 2016 under the same officer record as his Carillion plc directorship; Vanda Murray; and Philip Rogerson, a director from 1 September 2021 to 14 December 2021 under a second record, with registry details matching his Carillion plc entry, that lists this one appointment. ^{3 12 13 2}

analysisThe two directors whose terms ended in 2009 and 2011 appear on later boards. David Garman's record, with 60 appointments, shows him as a director of Babble Cloud Holdings Limited from 25 October 2017 to 9 November 2020 and of Project Volta Bidco Limited and Project Volta Topco Limited from 16 July 2026, both shown as active. David Hurcomb's record, with 87 appointments, shows directorships of NG Bailey Group Limited and NG Bailey Limited from 24 September 2010 to 1 June 2024 and of Van Elle Holdings Limited from 1 November 2017 to 15 June 2026. ^{14 15 1}

analysisCeri Michele Powell was a director of Carillion plc from 2 April 2014 to 31 March 2017; it is the only appointment on her officer record. Zafar Iqbal Khan's directorship ran from 1 January 2017 to 11 September 2017. His record, with 76 appointments, shows him as a director of Carillion Construction Limited from 10 January 2014 and of Carillion Holdings Limited from 31 October 2016, both until 11 September 2017, the day his Carillion plc directorship ended. The Carillion (AMBS) Limited officer list records two terms for him there: from 10 January 2014 to 11 September 2014, and from 31 October 2016 to 11 September 2017. ^{1 2 3 4}

analysisOn 12 December 2017 Keith Cochrane was appointed a director of four companies, Carillion Services Limited, Carillion (AMBS) Limited, Carillion Integrated Services Limited and Sovereign Hospital Services Limited, and resigned from all four on 14 February 2018, after the winding up of Carillion plc had commenced on 15 January 2018; the register shows all four companies as in liquidation. The Carillion (AMBS) Limited officer list records Emma Louise Mercer as a director for two terms, from 8 December 2011 to 10 January 2014 and from 12 December 2017, the day of Cochrane's appointment there, to 1 June 2018, after the winding up commenced. That entry is a separate officer record whose registry details match those of the Emma Mercer record. The Emma Mercer record lists five appointments, all directorships recorded as starting and ending on the same day: Carillion (AM) Limited, Carillion Utility Services S.E. Limited and Carillion JM Limited on 27 March 2009, and Carillion Capital Projects Limited and Dudley Bower Group Plc on 24 March 2010. Carillion plc is not among them. ^{5 4 6 7 8}

analysisKeith Cochrane's main officer record lists 99 appointments, among them Weir plc (company number SC002934) from 3 July 2006 to 30 September 2016, Third Energy Onshore Limited from 8 September 2017 to 12 September 2018 and Buchan 2 Limited from 10 September 2024, shown as active. A second record under his name, with registry details matching his Carillion plc entry, lists 114 appointments, among them a directorship of Stagecoach Group Limited from 4 March 1996 to 21 July 2002. ^{5 9}

analysisAndrew Dougal's record, with 70 appointments, shows directorships of Hanson Trust Limited (31 May 1995 to 22 October 1999), the Construction Products Association (19 October 1999 to 18 June 2002), Taylor Wimpey plc (18 November 2002 to 21 April 2011), BPB Limited (1 August 2003 to 7 December 2005), Premier Farnell Limited (1 September 2006 to 16 June 2015), Digital Unlimited Group Ltd (7 September 2006 to 30 November 2015) and Victrex plc (1 March 2015 to 6 February 2018). Alison Horner's record lists two appointments: the Carillion plc directorship and a directorship of Tesco Pension Trustees Limited from 29 March 2012 to 1 June 2018. ^{10 11}

analysisAlan Lovell's main record, with 8 appointments, shows him as a director of Sepura Limited from 24 October 2016 to 24 May 2017, Birmingham Highways Holdings Limited from 20 August 2018 to 29 June 2019, Amey Limited from 29 April 2019 to 31 July 2019 and Mitie Group plc from 1 January 2021 to 5 March 2021; a second record under his name, with registry details matching his Carillion plc entry, lists one appointment, University of Winchester Academy Trust, from 5 August 2015 to 16 December 2016. A second record for Baroness Morgan, under the name Sally Morgan of Huyton and with matching registry details, lists one appointment: The Professional Teaching Institute, from 29 May 2020 to 31 December 2024. ^{12 13 14}

analysisJustin Read's record lists 262 appointments. Besides Carillion plc, it shows him as a director of Speedy Hire Centres Limited (1 April 2008 to 27 August 2011), SEGRO Public Limited Company (30 August 2011 to 31 December 2016), Ibstock plc (1 January 2017 to 21 May 2026) and Grainger plc (13 February 2017 to 18 June 2026), and of Affinity Water Limited from 14 July 2020, shown as active. ¹⁵

analysisPwC's list of Carillion entities in liquidation, as at 2 August 2018, names Michael John Andrew Jervis, with David James Kelly, as special managers of Carillion plc, and the special managers' published case information names Edward John Macnamara as one of the special managers of Carillion plc. In the Companies House register each of the two has a single appointment: Macnamara is listed as a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1 July 2012, shown as active, and Jervis as a member of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 31 December 2002 to 4 January 2023. ^{1 2 3 4}