Richard Jewson, 65, joined the board of Eastern Counties Newspapers Group Limited (ECNG) in 1982 as a non-executive director and became Chairman in 1996.

After running Jewson, the timber and building merchant, for 12 years, he held the position of Managing Director, and then Chairman, of its holding company, Meyer International Plc, until he retired in 1993. Subsequently he was Chairman of Savills Plc for 10 years and Deputy Chairman of awg plc. He is currently a director of Temple Bar Investment Trust Plc, Grafton Group plc, Raven Russia Limited and a number of unquoted companies.

He is HM Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.

Richard chairs the remuneration and nominations committees.

richard.jewson@archant.co.uk

Peter Troughton, 61, joined the board of ECNG as a non-executive director in 1991, having served on the boards of East Anglian Daily Times Company Limited and Community Media Limited since 1984.

Peter graduated from Cambridge and served in HM Diplomatic Service, before joining WHSmith Group plc, where he became Managing Director News Division and later, as a director of the main board, Managing Director Retailing. He left in 1995 to become Deputy Chairman of Rothschild Asset Management until 1999. He is a director of a number of private companies. He is a non-executive director of Lowland Investment Company plc and a partner in Spencer House Capital Management. A former trustee of the National Gallery, he was appointed a Trustee of the Royal Collection in 2007. He is Chairman of the Council of the University of Bath and a Trustee of The Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.

Peter chairs the audit committee.

peter.troughton@archant.co.uk

Adrian is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was Group Finance Director of The Stationery Office before joining Archant. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London and worked briefly as an engineer before training as an accountant at BICC plc. After qualifying, he joined the instrumentation division of Schlumberger, where he was Finance Director of a number of business units based in France. Before joining The Stationery Office he was Director – Finance Europe for Dun & Bradstreet Inc.

During the year he was appointed as a Director to the PA Group Limited and sits on the Board of the Newspaper Society.

Adrian is a governor of Norwich School and a member of the Audit Committee of the University of East Anglia.

adrian.jeakings@archant.co.uk

Brian McCarthy, 47, joined the Board as Finance Director in November 2008.

Brian is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, having trained with Arthur Andersen in Dublin and Cambridge, and joined Archant in January 2004 as Finance Director of Archant Regional. Previously he worked as Finance Director of an environmental company and prior to that he held a series of senior finance roles in the English Language Division of Pearson Education.

e is also a Governor of the City Academy, Norwich.

brian.mccarthy@archant.co.uk

Since 1990 he has held a variety of general management, Six Sigma and sales and marketing positions with 3M UK plc and is currently their Acquisition, Alliance & Strategic Planning Manager.

scopeman@mmm.com

Richard is Chairman of Loudwater Investment Partners Limited. He is currently a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the FSA, and formerly Managing Director of Schroder Securities.

Richard, who is a law graduate, is also a trustee of Aldeburgh Music.

richard.wyatt@loudwaterpartners.com

June was Managing Director of Carlton Communications Plc from 1993 to 1999, having joined the board of Carlton in 1983.

Formerly a director of Cookson Group Plc, BT plc and J Sainsbury Plc, she is currently a non-executive director of Derwent London Plc, Temple Bar Investment Trust plc and Aldeburgh Music.

June is a member of the Council of the University of East Anglia .

june.de.moller@archant.co.uk

Jonathan Hustler Director

Johnny Hustler, 54, managing director of Archant Lifestyle with responsibility for Archant's three magazine businesses, joined the Board in January 2008, having served as a director of a number of other Archant companies during 23 years of service with the Group.

After graduating from Leeds University, he went to Unilever and started his media career with Anglia Television in 1983, then joining the East Anglian Daily Times in 1987. In 1995 he moved to Eastern Counties Newspapers Limited as Marketing Director, after which he served in a number of senior commercial roles before launching Archant Life, of which he remains a director, in 2001.

Johnny is a past UK and European Director of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and is currently a director of the Periodical Publishers Association Limited.

johnny.hustler@archant.co.uk

Mike Walsh Director

Mike Walsh, 60, was appointed a non-executive director of Archant in February 2010.

Mike is a director of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa and of Ogilvy & Mather Africa Inc and a non-executive of The Brand Union. Formerly a main board director of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide for 16 Years, he was also, for 12 years, Chief Executive of their Europe, Middle East and African operations. He is also Vice President of Business Development for Velti Plc.

After graduating from Durham in 1971 Mike joined Young & Rubicam and was appointed to the Board in 1981 before joining Ogilvy & Mather Plc in 1983.

Mike is Chairman of the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, which is an umbrella organisation for 13 leading UK charities including The Red Cross, OXFAM and Save the Children.

mike.walsh@archant.co.uk