Intu Properties Plc
INTU:LN
Overview
Company Profile
Intu Properties (formerly Capital Shopping Centres Group) owns and operates shopping centres across the UK, including 10 of the top 25. The company owns 16.6m sq. ft. of retail space, valued at �7bn, and attract over 320m customer visits each year. On January 15th of this year, the group announced the creation of a nationwide consumer facing shopping centre brand - intu - and officially changed its name from Capital Shopping Centres Group to Intu Properties on February 18th. The company has an investment plan of �1bn over the next ten years on active management projects and major extensions of existing assets involving most of its centres.
Classification
Financials
Corporate
Board of Directors
Patrick Burgess MBE
Chairman
Patrick Burgess qualified as a Solicitor in 1972 and became a partner in Gouldens in 1974, serving as head of the Corporate Department for 14 years and as Senior Partner for six, culminating with the merger of Gouldens with Jones Day in 2003, from which he retired in 2007. He has also has been active in a number of charitable and community organisations.
John Whittaker
Deputy Chairman
John Whittaker is the Chairman of the Peel Group which he founded in 1971 and developed into a leading UK infrastructure, transport and real estate enterprise.
David Fischel
Chief Executive
David Fischel qualified as a chartered accountant in 1983 at Touche Ross & Co before joining Intu in 1985. At Touche Ross, David worked in the corporate finance department with experience in acquisitions, flotations and capital raisings. During his 27 year career with Intu, David has gained significant executive experience in numerous aspects of the shopping centre industry including shopping centre acquisitions and developments. He has also been closely involved with the Group’s corporate development including equity and debt financings and a wide range of other corporate transactions, including the 2010 demerger of Capital & Counties from Intu.
Matthew Roberts
Chief Financial Officer
Matthew Roberts was previously the Finance Director of Debenhams plc from 1996 to 2003, and Chief Financial Officer of Gala (subsequently Gala Coral Group) from 2004 to 2008.
Andrew Huntley
Senior Independent Director
Andrew Huntley’s career commenced some 40 years ago with Richard Ellis where he served as Chairman from 1993 until 2002. He was a Non-Executive Director of Pillar Property plc from 2000 to 2005, and a Non-Executive Director of LondonMetric Property plc from 2010 to 2013.
Adèle Anderson
Non-Executive Director
Adèle Anderson commenced her career at KPMG where she became a partner and held a number of senior roles, including Chief Financial Officer. She is currently Chairman of the Audit Committee of Save the Children International and a member of the easyJet plc Audit Committee.
Richard Gordon
Non-Executive Director
Richard Gordon previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Capital Shopping Centres PLC between 1996 and 2006 and was appointed as an alternate Director in respect of Graeme Gordon’s directorship of the Group in 2001. He also served on the boards of a number of companies within the Liberty Life group and various companies within the commercial and residential real estate sector.
Rakhi Parekh
Non-Executive Director
Rakhi\'s early career included roles at TomTom, content management provider Article27 and eleven years at Amazon until 2014, where she held a number of key roles including responsibility for the Amazon UK Media category.
Louise Patten
Non-Executive Director
Louise Patten began her career at Citibank, working mainly in retail financial services until she joined global strategy advisers Bain & Company Inc in 1993 where since 1997 she has been a Senior Adviser.
Neil Sachdev
Non-Executive Director
Neil Sachdev joined Tesco PLC in 1978, rising to the position of Property Director before joining J Sainsbury PLC as Commercial Director in March 2007. He was subsequently appointed Property Director of J Sainsbury PLC in June 2010 and he held this position until leaving J Sainsbury PLC in March 2014. He was Chairman of the Institute of Grocery Distribution until April 2014. He is a Non-Executive Director of Medico-Dental Holdings Limited.
John Strachan
Non-Executive Director
John is currently the Global Head of Retail Services at Cushman and Wakefield. John\'s career commenced at Healey and Baker in 1972 where he rose to become Head of UK and European Retail from 1996 to 2000. Healey and Baker was acquired by Cushman and Wakefield in 2000.
Andrew Strang
Non-Executive Director
ndrew Strang started his career with Richard Ellis 30 years ago. He served as Managing Director of Threadneedle Property Investments Limited for 17 years until January 2008. He was Chairman of Hermes Real Estate Investment Management from 2009 to 2011. He was a Director of the British Property Federation from 1994 to 2013. He is a current member of the Norges Bank Investment Real Estate Advisory Board, a member of the Investment and Governance Committees at AEW UK and he was appointed as a Director of the Pollen Estate Trustee Company Limited in August 2014.