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