Directors

Raymond Mould

Chairman

Raymond, a qualified solicitor, is a highly regarded businessman with a long track record of corporate achievement and close association with the horseracing and property industries. He is currently Chairman of London & Stamford Investments Ltd and was Executive Chairman of Pillar Property Plc until May 2005 when it was acquired by British Land Plc. He is also Chairman of Fleming Family & Partners Russia Real Estate Limited.

Mark Elliott

Chief Executive

Mark was appointed Chief Executive in October 2005. He is a respected Executive Director in the quoted company leisure sector and was formerly Finance Director and then Chief Executive of Wembley plc. Mark trained as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young. Mark is on the board of the Racecourse Association, the trade body of the UK racecourse industry.

Ian Renton

Racing Director

Ian has held the position of Racing Director since he joined Arena in 2001. He has extensive racing experience including Manager and Clerk of the Course at Salisbury, Wincanton and Aintree. A respected figure throughout racing, Ian sits the board of directors of the British Horseracing Authority, which assumed responsibility for the regulation and governance of UK horseracing in 2007 and also sits on various BHA industry advisory groups.

Tony Harris

Finance Director

Tony was appointed Finance Director of Arena in May 2008. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer of The UNITE Group Plc and, prior to that, Vice President Finance (Europe & Africa, and Nordic regions) at Hilton International, where he was responsible for 230 hotels operating across 35 countires. Tony qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and then spent 13 years working in the hotel industry, first with Inter-Continental Hotels Group and then with Hilton International.

Brigadier Andrew H Parker Bowles OBE

Non-Executive Director

Andrew joined Arena in September 1999 and has extensive experience and interests in the racing industry. He was a Director of the British Horseracing Board from 1997 to 2000, a member of the Jockey Club since 1982 and for four years was the Jockey Club Steward responsible for all 59 racecourses. An owner, rider and breeder of racehorses, he was a Director of United Racecourses from 1995 to 1999 and a director of R.A.M. Racing Leisure Ltd from 1996 to 1999. Andrew is a Non-Executive Director of two other companies and a Trustee or Governor of eight charities.

Martin McGann

Non-Executive Director

Martin, a Chartered Accountant, has an extensive background in property and finance. He is currently Finance Director of Kandahar Group, a private property company, and from 2002 he was Finance Director at Pillar Property Plc, until its disposal to British Land Plc in 2005. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Finance Director at the Strategic Rail Authority, following on from six years at Railtrack Plc, where for the last two years he was Head of Property Finance. Martin trained as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.