Speaker Biographies

Neville Richardson
Neville, 50, has been group chief executive since November 2002. He joined the Board in 1998 as group finance director after 21 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a partner in the financial services practice. He is a member of the assets and liabilities committee, the nominations committee and the group credit committee and is a trustee of the Britannia Building Society Foundation. Neville is a member of the Building Societies Association Council and Court of Lancaster University. He is also a director of Mutuo (Communicate Mutuality Limited).

Ian Adam
Ian, 64, a chartered accountant, joined the Board in 1998, becoming chairman in April 2004. He chairs the nominations committee and is a member of the remuneration committee. He is a member of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council where he chairs the audit committee. He was formerly finance director at Christian Salvesen PLC and is a member of the finance committee of the National Trust for Scotland. Ian retired as chairman following the Annual General Meeting on 23 April 2008.