Directors

Amit Bhatia

Non-executive Chairman

Amit is founder and managing partner of Swordfish Investments, a private equity and venture capital business. He is also Partner at Summix Capital, a strategic land fund and a Partner at Initial Capital, a firm that invests in early stage technology companies. He is Chairman of the Global Relief Initiative, a philanthropic trust he founded in 2011. He is a Gold Leaf member at the Aspen Institute and a William Pitt group member at Chatham House.

Amit was Executive Chairman of Hope Construction Materials until it was acquired by Breedon Group in August 2016 when he joined the Board. He was appointed Deputy Chairman in 2018 and Non-executive Chairman in May 2019.

Pat Ward

Group Chief Executive

Pat spent 20 years with Aggregate Industries in various roles across their UK and US businesses. He joined them in 1995 and in 1999 was given the opportunity to relocate to Denver as Vice President of the Colorado business. At the time of leaving the USA, Pat had responsibilities for the businesses in Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and the Mid-Atlantic region. He was appointed CEO of Aggregate Industries Europe in April 2014.

Pat joined Breedon in January 2016, and was appointed to the Board in March 2016.

Rob Wood

Group Finance Director

Rob has over 15 years’ experience in the international building materials industry. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and subsequently joined Hanson PLC where he held a number of senior positions including Finance Director Brick Continental Europe, Finance Director Building Products UK and Chief Financial Officer Australia and Asia Pacific.

Following the acquisition of Hanson PLC by HeidelbergCement AG, Rob returned to the UK and joined Drax Group plc as Group Financial Controller. During his time at Drax he also spent a period of time as Head of M&A. Rob joined Breedon and was appointed to the Board in 2014.

Clive Watson

Non-executive Director

Clive has considerable finance experience, having previously been the Group Finance Director of Spectris PLC, a leading international provider of productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for business support at Borealis, a leading provider of polyolefins, Group Finance Director at Thorn Lighting Group and held a variety of finance roles at Black & Decker. In 2019, Clive retired from the Board of Spectris PLC and as a non-executive director of Spirax Sarco Engineering plc, the FTSE 100 engineering company, where he was Chair of the Audit Committee and Senior Independent Director. Clive is currently a non-executive director and chair of the Audit and Risk Committee for discoverIE Group plc, an international group of businesses which designs, manufactures and supplies electronic components, and non-executive director and chair of the Risk Management and Audit Committee for Kier Group plc, a leading UK construction and infrastructure services company. Clive was appointed to the Board in September 2019 and became the Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee in April 2020.

Moni Mannings

Non-executive Director

Moni is a non-executive Director of a number of limited companies, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Remuneration at Investec Bank PLC and Deputy Chair of Barnardo’s. Moni previously held a number of senior non-executive positions, including as a Board member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (chairing its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee), Cranfield University, Dairy Crest PLC and Polypipe Group plc where she was also Chair of the Remuneration Committee. Until 2017, Moni was Chief Operating Officer of Aistemos Limited, a leading IP data analytics and strategy company. From 2000 until 2016, Moni was a Partner and Head of the International Banking and Finance Division of Olswang LLP, before which she held senior positions with Dewey Ballantine LLP and Simmons & Simmons. Moni was appointed to the Board in December 2019 and appointed Chair of the Remuneration Committee in January 2020.