Menu Our Board In this section About Us Our Board Our board plays an important role in supporting the strategy and business development of our companies. Roles and responsibilities The board and senior team is here to: establish robust high level strategies, governance and management systems for our companies support each company through change and bring about consolidation and ‘business as usual’ as efficiently and effectively as possible maintain and support a highly-skilled workforce, who are passionate about the people they work with, and who are inspired by creating visible and sustainable value support a culture of shared learning to continually build on our ambitions for growth nurture and inspire commercial acumen in our companies and take responsibility for supporting business development Meet the Corserv Board of Directors Pete Andrew CHAIR OF CORSERV Peter Andrew is deputy chairman of HBF and has a wealth of industry experience and an in-depth understanding of the issues affecting house builders. Peter started life as a trainee QS at George Wimpey and during a career spanning 40 years progressed to become the UK Land and Planning Director - and a board member - at national house-builder Taylor Wimpey UK. He was also one of the four practitioners who helped draft the National Planning Policy Framework for then Planning Minister Greg Clark. He was awarded an MBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours for ‘services to construction’ in recognition for this work. Peter is also a Council member of the NHBC, Chairman of Burrington Estates – a West Country developer, Chairman of IT company Rummage 4 and director of Dorchester Group - a housing and Place-making company. Cath Robinson CORSERV GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR With over 30 years’ experience in local government, Cath has recently moved from interim to the permanent role as Corserv’s managing director. Boasting a distinguished career, from apprentice to chief finance officer in Cornwall Council, Cath is a qualified CIPFA accountant as well as holding an MBA from Warwick Business School. In her previous roles, Cath has managed core business functions such as human resources, organisational development, and commercial and legal services. She has also led operational services for the fire service, public protection, libraries, customer services and property. Most recently Cath was the chief operating officer for Cornwall Council and was instrumental in establishing Corserv and the new group company’s structure. Richard Zmuda GROUP COMPANY SECRETARY A chartered secretary and solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience as a company secretary, providing corporate governance, legal and commercial advice at board level. Previously he was assistant company secretary at Pennon group plc with responsibility as company secretary to the board of South West Water Limited. Tim Jeans NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR A long term aviation professional, Tim has served in many senior positions during his nearly two decades in the industry. As commercial director of Ryanair, Tim played a key role in its European expansion, most notably into Brussels and Frankfurt. He has also served as chairman of Stobart Air Ltd, Monarch Electric Service Company, and he is currently board chairman at Cornwall Airport Newquay. Phil Mawston GROUP FINANCE DIRECTOR Phil has been Group Finance Director for over 2 years and prior to that was Finance Director for Cormac. Phil has more than 20 years financial experience working at senior levels in the car industry, manufacturing, FMCG and the NHS. He brings a broad commercial background having worked in financial and operational roles. Previous to working at Corserv he spent 10 years working for Volkswagen UK where he ended his career as CFO for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. He also spent 4 years working in operational roles in sales and planning and was Head of Pricing for Volkswagen Bank. Mike Hanrahan CHAIR OF CORNWALL HOUSING Since the early 1990’s Mike has held executive posts in a number of regional and national housing associations. For 10 years he was Chief Executive of Teign Housing. He has always put quality service delivery and meaningful tenant involvement at the top of his agenda. He has significant Board experience, having served on 3 housing association Boards including an appointment by the Social Housing Regulator. On his appointment as Chair of the Board of Cornwall Housing Limited, Mike said “I am looking forward to working with the team at Cornwall Housing, it is an organisation that is driven to provide quality services for its tenants and local communities and I am particularly excited to play my part in seeing this continue and develop.” Julia Gregory NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Julia has over 29 years’ experience in leading the development and delivery of key infrastructure across the highways, transportation and aviation sectors. Her career has demonstrated a strong focus on driving results to improve commerciality, performance, customer service, quality and safety. Julia is a Fellow and Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), as well as a Trustee for Homestart Hertfordshire. Julia is also currently the Director of Projects at Ebbsfleet Development Corporation (EDC). Stephen Smith NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR A career health specialist manager with international experience in the private and public sector, Steve’s specialisms are in commercial, clinical, strategic, transformational, program and operational roles. He has demonstrated success in achieving sustained positive business change, efficiency gains, enhancing profitability and stakeholder engagement. Meet the Corserv board and senior team Our board plays an important role in supporting the strategy and business development of our companies. Find out more about Corserv companies Corserv companies provide essential public services and jobs on behalf of Cornwall Council and partner organisations. 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