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	PETER RICHARD WAVELL HENSMAN Peter, aged 62, became Chairman of the Society in 2011. He studied Engineering at Cambridge University and subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He was Finance Director and then Managing Director of Gilbert Gilkes and Gordon, the Kendal engineers, between 1980 and 2000.Today he is director of various tourism related businesses including Ullswater Steamers and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway. He is also a member of the Board of the Northwest Regional Development Agency, a director of Business Link Northwest, Chairman of Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency and Kendal Futures Board.
	NIGEL ANTHONY QUINTON Nigel, aged 54, was appointed to the role of Chief Executive and the Board of Directors on 17 October 2011. Nigel has worked in Building Societies in senior roles for almost 25 years. As a qualified accountant his roles have spanned from Chief Accountant to Finance Director and in more recent years, Chief Executive. Nigel has walked in small, medium and large Societies and was also a member of the Building Society Association Accounting Panel. Nigel has also been a director of number of related companies covering banking, property development, mortgage broking and independent financial advice.He is a member of the Society’s Nominations Committee and chairs the Assets and Liabilities Committee. Nigel is also a director of one of the Society’s subsidiary companies, Furness Mortgage Services Limited
	STEVEN LINDSAY PRYER Steve, aged 49 was appointed to the Board in 2004 and has worked for the Society since 1993. Prior to his promotion to Deputy Chief Executive upon Philip Shipman’s retirement, Steve was the Society’s Finance Director. Steve’s business qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree, an MBA and three coaching qualifications, in addition to being a Chartered Manager and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Prior to joining the Society, Steve gained significant finance related experience working for an American oil company and a very large American bank. Steve is a member of the Society’s Assets and Liabilities Committee and the Society’s Corporate Planning Committee. Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Steve is a mentor for the Prince’s Trust and is a member of the Cumbria Branch of the Chartered Management Institute.
	BRIAN PRESTON RYNINKS Brian, aged 52, was appointed to the Board on 1 November 2010 having joined the Society in August 2010, after a career with investment management / stock broking firms. These firms included his most recent appointment at EFG Harris Allday in Birmingham as Head of Finance and Operations since 1996 as well as at J M Finn in London. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce before serving articles with Deloitte Haskins & Sells and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Brian is a member of the Society’s Assets and Liabilities Committee, Board Risk Committee and Corporate Planning Committee.
	ALAN THOMAS FERGUSON HUNTER Alan, aged 61, was appointed to the Board in July 2008. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and holds a B.Sc. degree in Economics. He is Chairman of the Society’s Audit Committee and a director of Furness Independent Financial Advisers Limited. He spent the majority of his working career in senior management positions in the banking and financial services sector in London. Latterly he was Finance Director of the Rea Brothers Group and was previously Finance and Operations Director, of Mase Westpac, the bullion bank.
	CHRISTOPHER STUART FAIRCLOUGH Stuart, aged 60, was appointed to the Board as a non-executive director in June 2005. He has spent his entire working career in the financial services industry initially in the UK life assurance market as an actuary based in Kendal for nearly 20 years. More latterly he has worked in the international life and investment markets as Chief Executive of a major cross border insurance company until taking early retirement. Stuart has a 1st Class Honours degree in Mathematics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. During his career he has been on a number of industry bodies including holding Chairmanships of the Association of International Life Offices and the Manx Actuarial Society. He is currently a director of a number of international financial services companies and is Chairman of one of the Society’s subsidiary companies, Furness Independent Financial Advisers Limited.
	COLIN STEWART MILLAR Colin, aged 64, was appointed to the Board in September 2006. He is the Society’s Senior Independent Director and a member of the Society’s Remuneration and Nominations Committees. He has a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham. His early career was in brand marketing with Unilever, principally in the UK but he also worked for a time in Japan and East Africa. Subsequently he was a General Manager with Birmingham Midshires and Yorkshire Building Societies and Marketing Director with The Mortgage Corporation. For fourteen years he then owned and ran a marketing information company, supplying marketing data to companies and trade organisations throughout the world. He is Chairman of an NHS Foundation Trust.
	PHILIP ANTHONY IRELAND Philip, aged 58, joined the board in 2010 and is chairman of the Board Risk Committee which he helped to set up at the end of last year. He is a solicitor with a law degree from Liverpool University and an MBA degree from Bradford. After a short period in private practice he has spent over 30 years in financial services including 9 years at Halifax Building Society and 12 years with the Yorkshire Building Society. He moved into stockbroking in 1996 and is a director at TD Waterhouse Investor Services based in Leeds.
	KIM SUSAN KEARNEY Kim, aged 55, joined the board in 2011 and is a member of the Audit and Remuneration committees. After graduating with a degree in Mathematics, she started a career in IT, at companies including BAE and WH Smith. More recently, she was Director of Broker Operations for Norwich Union General Insurance and then Chief Information Officer for the Broking division of RSA in the City of London. In 2006, Kim moved to South Lakes with her husband Brian, where they run a small farm and holiday accommodation business.

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