Andrew Simpson

Andrew has almost 30 years’ experience across a wide variety of business sectors and sizes from small entrepreneurial to large corporate and public companies. He was Group CEO of the Peel

Group from 2006 to 2010.

Peel Group is a large private company in the U.K. with approximately

$8 billion of businesses assets across the real estate, ports, airports, energy, media, telecoms and the environmental sectors. He left after achieving the strategic restructuring of the group by strengthening and creating key divisional teams; introducing key partners into several divisions (including the sale of stakes in its £1.6 billion ports business and £200 million airport business); materially increasing liquid assets by approx. £500 million; divesting non-core assets; and successfully managing £3 billion of debt funding across multiple facilities.

He was a main board director of Speedy Hire plc. (which became a FTSE 250 company) from 2003 to 2006 and was responsible for its development and expansion. This included seventeen acquisitions and several non-core divestments which saw the share price quadruple in value.

Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse and spent eight years working in investment banking at Rothschild, advising on a wide variety of M&A transactions, debt and equity fundraisings, IPO’s and shareholder value issues. Andrew graduated first-class honors B.A. (Hons) in Accounting and Management.