Executive Committee

Peter Tom CBE

Executive Chairman

Peter has more than 50 years’ experience in the aggregates industry. He joined Bardon Hill Quarries Limited as a school-leaver in 1956, becoming Managing Director in 1977 and Chief Executive of Bardon Group plc in 1985. He went on to lead the merger of Bardon and Evered plc in 1991 and the enlarged group’s subsequent merger with CAMAS in 1997 to form Aggregate Industries plc.

Following the acquisition of Aggregate Industries by Swiss building materials Group Holcim Limited for £1.8 billion, he served as non-executive Chairman of Aggregate Industries until his resignation in December 2007. Peter was appointed to the Board in 2008 and has been Executive Chairman of Breedon Aggregates Limited since its formation in 2010 through the reverse acquisition of Breedon Holdings by Marwyn Materials, the AIM-listed company he co-founded with Simon Vivian in 2008 to consolidate the smaller end of the heavyside building materials industry. Peter has been Chairman of Leicester Rugby Football Club (Leicester Tigers) since 1997. He is also Chairman of Jacksons (CI) Ltd.

Pat Ward

Group Chief Executive

Pat joined the Company as Group Chief Executive and was appointed to the Board in January 2016.

He has over 30 years’ experience in the aggregates and construction industries in the UK, US and Middle East.  Having held a variety of roles with ARC/Hanson, he joined Aggregate Industries (“AI”) in 1995.  After serving in several general management positions in AI UK’s aggregates and asphalt divisions, in 1999 he moved to Denver as Vice President of AI USA’s West Central Region, later becoming Senior Vice President of that region, which in 2007 expanded to become the Western and Mid-Atlantic Region, employing over 2,000 people.  He was appointed CEO of AI Europe in April 2014, assuming responsibility for an international business with over 4,000 employees.

Rob Wood

Group Finance Director

Rob was appointed to the Board on joining Breedon as Group Finance Director in 2014.  He has over 10 years’ experience in the international building materials industry. Rob 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 & 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 Group plc he also spent a period of time as Head of M&A.

Alan Mackenzie

Chief Executive - Breedon Northern

Alan is Chief Executive of our Northern operations, which extend from Stornoway in the Hebrides to northern England. He has spent more than 30 years in the aggregates industry, initially with Wimpey Minerals and then with Tarmac, where he was latterly Contracting Director of the company’s largest region in central England. Alan joined Ennstone in 2001 as Regional Director for North and W est Scotland and in 2002 became Chief Executive of BEAR Scotland (in which Ennstone had a significant shareholding).  He rejoined Ennstone in 2006 as Chief Executive of its Scottish business and when Ennstone was acquired by Breedon in 2010 he became Chief Executive of Breedon Aggregates Scotland, renamed Breedon Northern following Breedon's acquisition of Hope Construction Materials in 2016. Alan is a Past President of the European Asphalt Pavement Association and is currently Chairman of the UK Mineral Products Association Asphalt Committee and the Asphalt Industry Alliance.  He is also immediate past Chairman of the Mineral Products Association in Scotland and a member of the MPA Council.

Stephen Tagg

Group Human Resources Director

Stephen joined Breedon Group in May 2016 as Group Human Resources Director, with additional responsibility for overseeing group safety.  He was previously Organisation & Human Resources Director at Aggregate Industries, having spent 21 years with the company in a variety of senior HR roles. He also had responsibilty for the company's health and safety performance, payroll and fleet management. Prior to AI, he worked in Employee Relations and HR roles in the mining industry with British Coal. Stephen is a member of the CBI Employment and Skills Board and a director of the Mineral Products Qualification Council.

Darryl Matthews

Head of Strategy & Commercial Services

Darryl has nearly 20 years’ experience in the building materials industry gained through a variety of operational & functional roles in the UK and overseas. Starting his career with the RMC Group, Darryl was responsible for the readymix & mortar business across West Yorkshire. In 2000, he left RMC to join Lafarge Middle East where he spent a number of years, ultimately as General Manager UAE and led the company through significant growth. In 2009, he moved to Lafarge HQ in Paris and took on a global performance role across MENA, North.Africa, South-East Asia & North.America. He joined Hope in 2013 as Commercial Director and later moved to Head of Strategy/M&A. He was responsible for and led the deal team on the divestment of Hope to the Breedon Group.

Ross McDonald

Group Services Director

Ross joined Ennstone plc as Company Secretary in 2006 and became Chief Compliance Officer of Breedon Aggregates on its formation in 2010.  He was appointed Group Services Director in 2016.  Ross is responsible for, amongst other things, legal and regulatory compliance, legal affairs, corporate governance, insurance and risk management, minerals and planning, and he has a leading role in our M&A team.  Before joining Ennstone he was Company Secretary of Melrose plc (now Melrose Industries plc), McKechnie plc and Assistant Company Secretary of BICC plc (now Balfour Beatty PLC).  Ross has a Bachelor of Laws degree from Edinburgh University and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Stephen Jacobs

Head of Communications & Marketing

Steve has overseen Breedon's communications and marketing since the group's creation in 2010.  Prior to joining Breedon, Steve was closely involved in the housebuilding and building materials industries as a communications consultant for more than 20 years, most of which he spent as a partner in FTI Strategic Communications (formerly Financial Dynamics), one of the UK's leading international corporate and financial communications consultancies. He has responsibility for all Breedon Group's internal and external communications and marketing activities.