Senior Management
Grenville Turner
Group Chief Executive Officer
Born 1957. Joined Countrywide plc on 1 August 2006 as an Executive Director and became Group Chief Executive on 1 January 2007. Also a director of Countrywide Estate Agents. Qualified as a Chartered Banker in 1982 and holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School. Former roles have included Chief Executive, Intelligent Finance and Chief Executive, Business to Business at HBOS. Previous Directorships have included St James Place Capital plc, Sainsbury's Bank plc and Rightmove.co.uk Limited.
Jim Clarke
Group Chief Financial Officer
Joined the Group in November 2007. Was previously Finance Director and Company Secretary of JD Wetherspoon and previously worked for David Lloyd Leisure (a division of Whitbread plc) and HP Bulmer Holdings plc. A graduate of Stirling University and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1984.
Nick Dunning
Group Commercial Director
Joined the Group in September 2007, as Commercial Director responsible for the Lettings Division, Marketing, Corporate Development and IT. Previously Vice President and General Manager of Home and Small business, EMEA, for Dell Computers. Graduated from Oxford University in 1985 and is a qualified chartered accountant.
Paul Creffield
Corporate Projects Director and Chairman of the Conveyancing Division
Was formerly a Director of Countrywide Surveyors and other Group companies. Spent nearly two years at Rightmove.co.uk as one of the operational Managing Directors through a period of major growth before returning to Countrywide plc. Has extensive domain knowledge across the Group and was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee in June 2007.
Gerald R Fitzjohn
National Sales Director of the Estate Agency & Financial Services Division
Born 1949. Also a director of Countrywide Franchising Limited. He has been with the Group since 1974 and was formerly Managing Director of Taylors Estate Agents Limited. He was previously a director of Countrywide Assured Group plc, appointed on 7 December 1989.
Robert Scarff
Managing Director Estate Agency Division
Born 1959. Joined the Group as a Trainee Sales Negotiator with Taylors Estate Agents in 1978 and was appointed Managing Director of Dixons Estate Agents in 1991. Was instrumental in establishing the Group's conveyancing Division in 1997 and held the position of Managing Director of Dixons until 31 December 1998. Was appointed as a Divisional Director in 1999, a position he held until 2007. He was appointed to his current position on 1st January 2008. Is a Fellow of the National Association of Estate Agents.
David Fletcher
Sales Director Estate Agency & Financial Services Division
Born 1952. Qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1983 and was formerly Managing Director of Abbotts Estate Agents Limited and has been with the Group for over 30 years. He was appointed to the committee on 1 January 2005.
John Hards
Managing Director of Countrywide Residential Lettings
Born 1956. A Chartered Surveyor, is a Director of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents and The Dispute Service, which has recently won a government contract to administrator The Tenancy Deposit Scheme. Was appointed to the Executive Committee on 29 November 2006.
Guy Batchelor
Corporate Business Director, Countrywide Plc
Born 1963. Responsible for corporate business development across the Countrywide Group, including Countrywide's estate agency, lettings, surveying, conveyancing, property management and asset management divisions. Previously, Guy was senior vice-president at Lehman Brothers within their mortgage capital division and prior to that worked for nine years at Platform, the intermediary lender of Britannia Building Society, where he was sales and marketing director. He has held a variety of sales and business development roles in the specialist lending market over the past 15 years and chaired the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association plus, was a member of executive committee of the Council of Mortgage Lenders between 2003 and 2008.
Christopher P Shaw
Managing Director of Countrywide Surveyors
Born 1952. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1978 and is a Fellow and Vice President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was formerly a director of Abbotts (East Anglia) Limited and previously a director of Countrywide Assured Group plc, appointed on 1 January 2002.
J Alan Snowball
Managing Director of Countrywide Principal Services Limited
Born 1951. Qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1976. After a career in private practice, became a Director of Prudential Property Services Limited in 1987 and a Director of Halifax Estate Agencies Limited in 1990. Joined Countrywide in 1998 as Managing Director of Countrywide Franchising Limited. Was appointed to the Executive Committee on 30 November 2005.
Gareth R Williams
Company Secretary and Head of Group Legal
Born 1964. Qualified as a Solicitor in 1990 and is a Chartered Company Secretary. Was previously the Company Secretary for Countrywide Assured Group plc, appointed on 27 November 2000. Was appointed to the Executive Committee on 24 May 2004.