Simon Batey
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Simon Batey has 20 years’ experience in a number of senior finance roles in industry. Between 2000 and 2006, Mr Batey was Group Finance Director of United Utilities plc and, from 2006 until 2007, he was Chief Financial Officer of Thames Water Utilities Limited. From 1987 to 2000, he worked for AMEC plc, initially as Deputy Group Finance Director and then, from 1992, as Group Finance Director. Mr Batey has been a non-executive director of Arriva plc since October 2003 and has also served as a non-executive director of THUS Group plc. Mr Batey has an MA in Geography from Oxford University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant, having spent the first 12 years of his career at Armitage and Norton (now part of KPMG), latterly as a Partner of the firm. Mr Batey chairs the Audit Committee, and is the Company’s Senior Independent non-executive Director.

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