Group Executive Committee
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director (age 47)
Appointed to the Board of BG Group as Chief Financial Officer in August 2002.
Skills and experience:
Ashley joined British Gas plc in 1993 and has held a number of key management roles in BG Group, including Group Finance Director, seeing the Group through the de-merger of Lattice in 2000. He is currently responsible for management of the Group’s activities in Kazakhstan, Group finance, tax, treasury, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, internal audit and secretariat. A chartered accountant with a MBA from London Business School, he serves as chairman of The 100 Group, which represents finance directors of the UK’s largest listed companies.
External appointments:
Chairman of the Hundred Group of Finance Directors
Member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford University
Membership of Group Executive Committees:
- Investment*
- Group Performance and
- Energy Trading and Credit Risk
*Committee Chairman