Bob Morton
Non-Executive Chairman
Bob is a chartered accountant, successful entrepreneur and has substantial public company experience. He served as chairman to Vislink plc from 2000 until May 2007 and is currently also chairman of a number of other public and listed companies including Armour Group plc, Conchango plc, Tenon Group plc and St Peter Port Capital Limited. In addition he holds directorships in a wide range of private companies.
Michael Richards
Chief Executive Officer
Michael has over twenty years' experience within the marketing services industry as an account director, new business director and as a chief executive. In 2000, he joined WFCA as chief executive. Previously Michael was a board and worldwide account director with Grey Worldwide, where he also became head of new business. During his five years with Grey Worldwide, he ran the ITV Network, Mirror Group Newspapers, Glaxo Smithkline, Mars Confectionery, Allied Dunbar/Zurich, Proctor & Gamble, Canon (UK) and the Granada Group accounts. From 1990 to 1996, Michael was an account director with KHBB/Saatchi and was responsible for accounts with Saab, Federal Express, Carlsberg and Uniroyal, amongst others. Michael's career in the marketing services industry started in 1986 when he joined Ogilvy and, as an account manager and latterly as an account supervisor, he worked on the accounts of Guinness, Reebok, Ford, Nutrasweet and Lever. Michael Richards is also one of the Vendors.
Stephen Latter
Group Financial Director
Steve was elected to the board of Ekay Group as Financial Director on the 1st July 2008. He has worked for 20 years within the marketing Services sector primarily within the Aegis Group where he occupied a series of senior CFO positions. He was instrumental in the creation of Carat's Asia Pacific network which he built from scratch and was a founder global director of the Vizeum network. In addition he occupied various European regional management positions from both a client services aspect and from a financial review and control perspective. He has lived for over twenty years in East Sussex, is married and has three sons.
Edward Powell
Managing Director
Eddie has worked in advertising sales at Mirror Group Newspapers for 15 years, specialising in the financial services sector and the agencies
which catered for companies in that sector. He founded Ekay advertising in 1994 based on the
experience he gained whilst working for the national press. In 1999 he formed Ekay Advertising
& Marketing Limited and developed it into its present form.
William Jones
Media Director
Bill has worked within the agency side of the communications industry for over thirty years and joined WFCA Integrated Limited in 2004. Earlier in his career, Bill was employed within the marketing and advertising division of Unilever, was media director of three top ten agencies and was a co-founder of MediaCom where he later rose to become Managing Director and Deputy Chairman.
Rodger Braidwood
Non-Executive Director
Rodger is the non-executive finance director of WFCA. Rodger qualified as a chartered accountant in 1970. He joined European Ferries Plc in 1977, becoming its finance director in 1983, and then, from 1987, spent six years as the finance director of Tiphook plc. Prior to his career in public companies and subsequently, Rodger's business interests have included investing in private companies, where he has taken a keen interest in business development. In 1996, he became a founding director and shareholder of WFCA and accordingly is also one of the Vendors.
John Foley
Non-Executive Director
John was appointed to the Board in May 2008. He has over 20 years' experience developing and managing businesses within in a variety of sectors. He has operated at senior management level and acted in the capacity of Non Executive Chairman of fourteen companies since commencing his career in 1978 with the firm known now as PriceWaterhouseCoopers. John moved to Triplex Lloyd Plc in 1989 becoming Group Managing Director and in 1994 he became the Chief Executive of the MacLellan Group plc. He oversaw the transformation of MacLellan from a loss making company through to its admission to AIM in 2000. Furthermore, he oversaw 13 acquisitions and 4 disposals and the MacLellan Group itself was eventually sold for £120 million to Interserve Plc in 2006.
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