Trevor Smallwood - Chairman

Trevor has been Chairman of the group since 2008.

His main business life was in public transport where he established Badgerline and First Group following the privatisation of the bus industry in the UK.

His first involvement in radio was as part of the group which won the licence for Weston super Mare in 2001 They then purchased Cheltenham before the two businesses became part of UKRD in 2004.

He has many charitable involvements being a member of the Merchant Venturers in Bristol and President of St Monica Trust and Chairman of Governors of Colston’s Girls’ School in Bristol. He currently owns LDJ Design and Display a leading national supplier of Christmas decorations to shopping centres in the UK.

He is also Chairman of Ultra, a people mover operating to Terminal 5 in Heathrow.

A lifelong Rotherham United supporter he still enjoys an involvement in sport with football and running.

John Hepburn - Non-Executive Deputy Chairman

John graduated from Princeton University in 1972 with a BSE in Engineering and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974.

He joined Morgan Stanley in 1975, becoming a Managing Director in 1985 and Vice Chairman in 1996. John has been based in the London office since 1978. He has managed the Nordic Corporate Coverage Group for over sixteen years and the Global Corpoate Finance Business.

John has been actively involved in the merger of Asea and Brown Boveri; the restructuring of Investor AB and AB Volvo; the demutualization of Trygg Hansa and the buyout of Saab-Scania. John led the Morgan Stanley team, which restructured the SEBanken during the Swedish banking crisis.

Most recently he led the Morgan Stanley team which defended Scania AB against the hostile bid of MAN AG.

Also, he represented Investor AB and Morgan Stanley in the purchase of Molnlycke Healthcare.

John's other interests include:

• Member of the Board of Tele2 AB, Molnlycke Healthcare and the Grand Hotel Holdings
• Chairman of Sportfact Ltd (Guildford Flames)
• Member of the Advisory Council of the Bendheim Centre for Finance (Princeton University); Trustee Lakefield College School
• UK Trustee The Global Fund for Children

Tony Everett - Non-Executive Director

Tony Everett was appointed a director of UKRD after the acquisition of Netrank in 2007 where he was chairman.

Tony has an entrepreneurial history building up three companies in the 70/80's involved with ceramics, sanitary ware and stone. All these companies were sold at the end of 1989.

He established a portfolio of companies all in CVA and undertook the turnaround. This portfolio was sold to a large Japanese financial operation.

He was a non executive director of Gordon House asset management which was acquired by Fleming family and Partners in 2003. He was heavily involved with their private equity division until 2009 when he joined their advisory board.

He has wide interests throughout Industry and is a non executive chairman / director of several companies involved in Health care, photovoltaic cells, food manufacturing and property development.

James St Aubyn - Non-Executive Director

James was the founder Chairman of the group that won the first independent radio licence for Cornwall and launched Pirate FM in 1992. He was also the first Chairman of UKRD Group, a role he fulfilled for twelve years. He has been a serial investor in the group as it has developed, and is as stimulated as ever by the challenges and opportunities for radio.

James now lives in his family home on St Michael’s Mount, which is managed in collaboration with National Trust, and attracts over 200,000 visitors annually to the castle and 50,000 to the garden. He is also responsible for St Aubyn Estates, which consists of some five thousand acres in West Cornwall, some owned for more than six centuries.

Glenn Aaronson - Non-Executive Director

Glenn's involvement in the company began one evening at an ice hockey match. Vice-Chairman John Hepburn told him about a wonderful local radio company that he had been involved in for the last three years. Being American, the concept sounded fascinating and he made a minor investment. He and his family regularly listened to Eagle Radio during that time and even visited the studios.

The takeover of TLRC impressed upon him that UKRD was not simply going to pull through the recession, but be a consolidator within the industry. As a result, he made a larger investment in the company and so joined the board.

Glenn is the Chief Executive of an international company which designs, facilitates and builds shopping centres across Europe.

William Rogers - Chief Executive Officer

William Rogers became Chief Executive Officer of UKRD in 2002 after a very brief spell as Chief Operating Officer. An Insurance Broker by profession, he established his own broking firm in the south west of the UK in the 1980’s. His involvement with the radio sector started when he was invited to join the ultimately successful local group bidding for what is now Cornwall’s heritage commercial station, Pirate FM.

As Chief Executive Officer, he has overseen the transformation of UKRD into the country’s fourth largest commercial radio group (by licence number) more than doubling the group in size in 2009 when it won a contested hostile takeover bid for the publicly quoted radio group, The Local Radio Company plc. Within just two years of acquisition, The Local Radio Company was taken private and commercially transformed from a £2.5m annual loss making operation to one delivering operating profits in excess of £400,000. Since then, further acquisitions have been made as the group builds its portfolio of profitable assets, delivering improved profitability and cash flows and paying regular dividends to its shareholders.

Prior to full time executive radio management and insurance broking before that, William has previously held elected office as a councillor, leading his local authority for a period, been a Primary School Governor, Chairman of a Housing Society, Chairman of a College of Further Education, as well as holding various posts within the Conservative Party, contesting a seat in the 1997 Parliamentary Elections. He has also held office in a number of charitable organisations.

In 1990 he was awarded the MBE for Political and Public Service.

Andy Preece - Finance Director and Company Secretary

Andy joined UKRD in June 2008 as Group Financial Controller.

Prior to joining UKRD Andy worked predominantly in the manufacturing sector.  In addition to traditional Financial Controller roles, previous roles include Business Systems controller for the European division of a US manufacturing company, managing the European roll out of new Finance systems.

Andy is an Associate of the ICAEW.