Leathwaite’s Board Practice hosts regular events to bring together established Chairs and NEDs from multiple industry sectors to share their learnings and journeys. Our next event is on the 26th November. If you are interested in joining us please email: [email protected].
Please note, these events are strictly invite only.
Lisa Gordon was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Company on 7 September 2023, having held the same position at Cenkos since June 2020.
Lisa has almost 30 years of board experience, in both Executive and Non-Executive roles at both listed and private companies. Lisa is a Non-Executive Director of Alpha Group International plc, a listed corporate foreign exchange specialist and she chairs their Remuneration Committee. She is also a Non-Executive Director of JP Morgan Mid-Cap Investment Trust plc, Magic Light Pictures Limited, a leading film and television production company, and is Board Adviser to Fulcrum Asset Management LLP. Lisa served as a Non-Executive Director of M&C Saatchi plc, the listed global marketing group, between March 2020 and June 2023.
Lisa has held a number of Senior and Board positions. She was a co-founder and the Corporate Development Director of Local World plc (prior to its acquisition by Trinity Mirror) (2012-2015), the Chief Operating Officer of Yattendon Group (2007-2013), a private conglomerate, and the Director of Corporate Development of Chrysalis Group PLC, the media group (1994-2004). Prior to this, Lisa’s early background was in financial services as an analyst with County NatWest Securities.
Lisa is the Chairs the Company’s Nomination Committee and is also a member of the Audit & Risk Committee and the Remuneration Committee.
An experienced portfolio NED and board advisor across diverse businesses and sectors, currently serving as Chair, Adonis Blue Environmental Consultants, Trustee and Treasurer for the Kent Wildlife Trust. Prior roles include Independent NED, Multigate Group Holdings, Non-Executive Director Queen Victoria Hospital, Trustee, RBC Corporate Pension Plan and Executive Board Director, CLS Aggregation LLC.
Rachel has a successful track record in developing and implementing strategies to deliver business growth and risk-mitigation services across complex organisations. Her diverse career started in Chartered Accounting and has encompassed a range of sectors, namely financial services including Foreign Exchange, payments, the investment management industry and data services, FMCG and travel. Executive leadership roles included strategy, sales and product management, through to risk and governance accountability for Data and IT development projects.
She has worked for and with some of the largest financial institutions globally as well as mid-market enterprises and start-ups, and is experienced at complex and challenging stakeholder management. Rachel has significant global experience having worked across most continents, lived in Greater China, Australia, Canada and the UK, and is passionate about building relationships to find solutions to our life’s challenges
Entrepreneurial investor and NED with hands-on operational, fund-raising and deal experience.
Having studied architecture at Cambridge, Tiffany went to L’Oréal to get a grounding in FMCG marketing and then secured a job at Bain & Company to broaden her horizons. Before she started at Bain though, she joined Sun Capital Partners “temporarily” and enjoyed private equity so much that she stayed.
Tiffany co-founded Coppa Club in 2015 alongside the Sun Cap team with an ambition to democratise private members’ clubs. Mainly outside of London, there are now 13 Coppa Clubs around the country, and each provides a multi-use café/bar/restaurant/work space for locals to make their own. Tiffany ran Coppa Club for the first few years as MD, then recruited a management team to take it forward. She subsequently led the listing of the wider group on AIM in 2020 at a market cap of £65m, raising £25m for further growth. Tiffany is currently Non-Executive Director of the listed group, Various Eateries PLC.
In 2019, with a vision to create a trusted, high-street physiotherapy brand, Tiffany led an investment into Bodyset. In a culture where exercise and wellness are ever more prevalent but it is hard to know where to go when you’re in pain, Osmond Capital have backed Bodyset’s growth to 38 locations (and counting) and raised £5m in 2022 for further expansion. Tiffany currently supports the management team in a strategic capacity with a focus on honing the high-street concept.
Most recently Tiffany has joined the board of Red Engine, the team behind the award winning ‘competitive socialising’ concepts: Flight Club and Electric Shuffle. Having invested in the concepts in 2017, it is exciting to be part of the next phase of their trajectory.
Tiffany is a creative and strategic thinker and works closely with management teams to get crystal clear on the plan – whether its operational or transactional – and supports them in sticking to it.
