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Dermot Gleeson shall be succeeded as chairman by chief govt James Thomson with impact from 1st January 2023.
James Thomson introduced in April that he supposed to face down on the finish of the 12 months after simply three years within the job. His alternative as chief govt is to be Vistry Group chief working officer Graham Prothero, as announced back in April.
The MJ Gleeson board stated that there had been “an exhaustive search course of” to discover a new chairman earlier than Thomson was supplied the function.
Senior impartial director Fiona Goldsmith stated: “The board want to placed on document its heartfelt due to Dermot for the big contribution to the enterprise that he has revamped a few years and which have seen a number of the most testing occasions skilled throughout the UK housebuilding sector. It was his imaginative and prescient that noticed the enterprise remodeled into the UK’s main listed low-cost housebuilder and a enterprise that may genuinely say that it adjustments folks’s lives.
“We’re delighted that James will succeed Dermot. He has a protracted and excellent observe document within the housebuilding sector and, after all, a deep information of Gleeson. This can present a lot stability, each in these unstable occasions and as we welcome Graham Prothero as our new CEO in the beginning of subsequent 12 months.”
Dermot Gleeson is the good nephew of Michael Gleeson, the founding father of MJ Gleeson Group plc. He was appointed to the board in 1975 on the aged of 25, grew to become chief govt in 1988 and govt chairman in 1994.
A Cambridge graduate, he began his profession within the Conservative Social gathering Analysis Division. Late in his profession, he served two phrases on the BBC board of governments and was subsequently one of many unique members of the BBC Belief, up till 2008.
He has additionally been chairman of the Main Contractors Group and on the boards of the Housing Company and the Development Business Training Board.
Dermot Gleeson stated: “I shall be leaving the enterprise in fine condition and in good palms. I’m extraordinarily pleased with what has been achieved by the broader Gleeson staff all through my time as chairman and I stay up for watching with curiosity and pleasure the continued progress of the enterprise because it continues to play a number one function in assembly the big demand from first-time patrons for an inexpensive dwelling.”
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