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Senior Management

Ian Fry
National Operations Director

Giles Hart
National Operations Director

Paul Edgington
Divisional Managing Director

Rob Jenner
Divisional Managing Director

Adrian Pitt
Divisional Managing Director

Stuart Dare
Managing Director - Mortgage Services

Jason Willetts
Managing Director - Land & New Homes

Connells Group Directors

Richard Twigg, Group Chief Executive

Richard is a Chartered Accountant who joined the Skipton Group in 1993 as Head of Finance of Homeloan Management and in 1996, following the acquisition by Skipton, he was appointed Finance Director of Connells. In 2002 he was appointed to the Skipton Board and served as Group Finance Director until 2014. In 2014 Richard re-joined Connells Group as Group Finance and Commercial Director where he has responsibility for Group and subsidiary finance, acquisitions and development initiatives as well as all head office support functions. He has a thorough knowledge of the Group from his many years of involvement. Most recently, Richard was appointed as the interim Group Chief Executive.

David Plumtree, Group Chief Executive (Estate Agency)

David joined the company in 1988 starting his career as a negotiator and mortgage consultant in one of the Group’s William H Brown branches in East Anglia. Having performed roles at every level, he became the Chief Executive of Sequence in 2006 and then took responsibility for the whole of Connells Group’s branch network as Group Estate Agency Chief Executive in 2013. David has overall responsibility for all the Group’s estate agency, mortgage services and lettings operations across its 1,200 strong branch network. During his tenure, Connells Group has become the market leader in the UK and sells more properties than any other estate agent.

Stephen Nation, Group Lettings Managing Director

Stephen has over 30 years’ experience in residential lettings, starting his career as a letting agent in Kent before becoming an Area Manager in Surrey, then Regional Director and in 2002 appointed Managing Director of a national lettings chain. Stephen joined Connells Group in 2010 to initially run lettings in Sequence and was appointed to oversee residential lettings across the Group in 2013. Since then, he has presided over rapid growth through cold starts and acquisitions, more than doubling the network of lettings branches and the number of tenancies being managed.

Adrian Scott, Group Mortgage Services Director

Adrian is the Group Mortgage Services Director for Connells Group’s expansive nationwide branch network. This comprises over 1,000 mortgage consultants providing mortgage and protection advice across 1,200 offices, trading under a number of estate agency brand names, along with The New Homes Group, the UK’s leading specialist new homes mortgage services business. Adrian was previously Head of Lending at Kent Reliance. Prior to that he was Managing Director at Heritable Bank Mortgages and Director of Mortgage Distribution for Bradford & Bingley.

Roger Barrett, Group Land & New Homes Director

Roger joined Connells as a Sales Negotiator in 1983 having previously worked as a site manager for Charter Homes, a Birmingham-based residential developer. He rose quickly through the ranks to Area Manager responsible for Connells Residential offices across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. In 1989, he became Land Director for Connells based in Northampton, where he progressed and developed the Connells Land operation and, in 2019, he was appointed to the position of Group Land & New Homes Managing Director responsible for the Land & New Homes operation across the whole Group.

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