The Executive Committee develops and recommends to the Board, medium and long-term business development strategies. They ensure the delivery of agreed strategies by providing guidance, approvals, governance and monitoring. View brief biographies of our Executive Committee members below:

Colin was appointed BAA's Chief Executive Officer in 2008. He is an experienced FTSE100 CEO who has led a number of service and industrial businesses in several countries. Prior to joining BAA, Colin was Group Chief Executive of Severn Trent plc, Managing Director of BA Engineering for British Airways plc, and later Executive Director of Lattice Group plc and Group Chief Executive of Hays Group plc.

Nick joined BAA in February 2010. Nick was previously director of business development Northern Europe for CEVA Logistics, and has experience in logistics, supply chain and manufacturing at companies such as DHL, Gap, Diageo, Scottish Courage, Heinz and Mars. His role is critical to continuously improving operations at Heathrow and making every journey better for our passengers and airlines.

Mike joined BAA in 1997 and was appointed Design Director in 1998. He was appointed Terminal 5 Development and Design Director, and Group Development and Design Director. He later became Business Strategy Director for Heathrow Airport and shortly afterwards Strategy and Development Director at Heathrow. In 2007 Mike was appointed BAA's Strategy Director and was also appointed a member of BAA's Executive Committee. In February 2009, he became Director for the Third Runway. Prior to BAA, Mike was a partner at Sheppard Robson Architects.

Emma joined BAA in September 2009. She was previously BT plc's Group Director of Industry Policy and Regulation and has held a number of other senior regulatory and public policy roles in Cable and Wireless. Emma is also a non-executive director of London First and of St George's NHS Trust in Tooting.

John was appointed Commercial Director in May 2009. He was previously Divisional CEO with Taylor Wimpey PLC, having held a number of positions within the company including Operations Director of Taylor Woodrow Developments and Commercial Director of Taylor Woodrow Inc. Prior to that, John was Managing Director, National Sales Division, of Bass Brewers, and has also worked as a strategy consultant with LEK Consulting for a number of  high-profile businesses.

Carol was appointed BAA's General Counsel and Group Company Secretary in March 2009. Prior to joining BAA she was a Board Director and the General Counsel of Amey plc. She has held the positions of Group Legal Director of TDG plc and Deputy General Counsel of BG plc and was previously with Slaughter and May. She was awarded European General Counsel of the Year in 2008.

Philip was appointed Chief Information Officer in September 2008, joining the company’s executive committee, and has responsibility for developing IT across BAA. Philip has a strong and relevant background in top IT roles at Asda, Cable and Wireless, Midland Bank and at the BBC, where he was Chief Executive of BBC Technology. He has also acted as an IT adviser to British Airways. Most recently, Philip was a managing partner of an independent consultancy business, Langsdale Crook LLP and is currently owner and chairman of Cornish Crabbers LLP.

Philip has a sound track record of delivering technology programmes on time and in budget. He is an acknowledged and respected industry leader having sat on a number of influential industry bodies.

José was appointed BAA's Chief Financial Officer in September 2006. Prior to joining BAA he was Group Finance Director of Amey plc and former Managing Director of Ferrovial Telecomunicaciones, responsible for managing Ferrovial's investments in the telecommunication sector. José was also a Director of the Spanish telecommunication operators ONO and UNI2, and Chief Finance Officer and Business Development Manager at the Spanish construction company Agroman.

Steve joined BAA on 2 February 2009 and has responsibility for BAA's capital programme and procurement. Previously he was at British Nuclear Fuels as Commercial Director of Sellafield Ltd. Steve brings extensive experience of the management of large engineering and procurement contracts, having previously worked with Westinghouse, the US Department of Energy. He was a Rear Admiral in the United States navy, specialising in logistics and acquisitions.

Terry joined BAA in 1980. During his career Terry has held a variety of positions including Special Advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive of BAA and Chief Executive Officer for Australian Pacific Airports Corporation at Melbourne Airport. More recently Terry was Managing Director of BAA International and later Managing Director of Stansted Airport. He was also Divisional Director for BAA's South East airports prior to his current position as Technical Standards and Assurance Director, which he started in 2007.

Stephen was appointed Managing Director for BAA's Airports' Division in July 2008. He was previously Operations Director with Tube Lines. Stephen was Managing Director for Amey Rail and earlier Managing Director for Amey Rail Maintenance. Stephen has also held a number of senior director roles in the construction industry, including Regional Director for Tarmac Building South West Ltd and Contracts Manager for Wimpey Construction.

Fiona joined BAA in 2007 as Group HR Director and has since taken on responsibility for the Shared Services Centre, Employee Communications and Passenger Communications. She began her career with House of Fraser as a graduate trainee, buyer and store manager before moving to HR. Fiona has extensive transformation, business improvement and change experience and has had a progressive career spanning Banking, Travel, Retail and Leisure/Hospitality with the last ten years at Board level. Previously she has held Group HR Director positions with Alliance & Leicester and Thomas Cook.

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