Board of Directors

Roy Griffins, Chairman
Roy Griffins has been Chairman of Docklands Aviation Group Limited since 1 January 2007.

Previously Roy had a thirty-year career in the British civil and diplomatic service, mostly in international, transport and environment posts. He served as the UKs Director of Railways from 1996 to 1999 and Director-General of Civil Aviation from 1999 to 2004. Additionally he was Director General of the Airports Council International in Brussels.

Richard E. Gooding OBE, Chief Executive
Richard Gooding has been Chief Executive of London City Airport since 1996 and has managed and developed this niche facility into the UK’s leading business airport.

Richard joined London City Airport from London Luton Airport where he spent five years as Chief Executive. Prior to this Richard was Managing Director of Ogden Allied Aviation Services for five years, Operations Director at Manchester Airport having previously spent the early part of his career with British Airways working both in the UK and throughout the world.

Richard is past Chairman and current Board Member of the Airport Operators Association, President of the Newham Chamber of Commerce, and a Member of the London Skills and Employment Board. He is also involved in the voluntary sector as Chair of Newham Homes, a Non Executive Director of the Royal Docks Trust, Leaside Regeneration, and a Board Member of East London Business Alliance.

David Thomson, Director
David Thomson was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary for London City Airport from 1989 to 2010.

Patrick Burrows – Chief Financial Officer
Patrick joined London City Airport in 2011. He is a chartered accountant and most recently held the position of Group Finance Director at New Look, where he led the finance streams of New Look’s 2010 Initial Public Offering process. Patrick previously spent 13 years at Tesco, where he gained a breadth of customer focused experience, holding finance director roles in parts of the business as diverse as UK Convenience and Tesco Thailand.  He also spent two years as a procurement director and delivered £45m of savings.

Scott Hatton, GIP representative
Scott joined GIP in July 2008 as the Chief Financial Officer – Portfolio Operations. Prior to GIP, Scott had spent 14 years with General Electric (GE) in 5 separate operating divisions, including Transportation, Aircraft and Plastics.  Critical GE leadership roles included a 2-year overseas assignment as CFO of Asia/Pacific for the Transportation division and a financial integration leader for a $12 billion integration effort in the Plastics division. After leaving GE in 2002, Scott held two senior financial leadership positions within Honeywell as CFO of their $4B global transportation operating division and their $10B global Automation & Control operating division before assuming the top financial officer position of Sypris Solutions, a publicly-held technology and industrial solutions provider.

Raj Rao, GIP representative
Raj Rao is a Principal at GIP and is based in London.  Prior to joining GIP, Raj was a Director in the Mergers and Acquisition team within the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse based in London. Raj was responsible for a number of M&A transactions in the Utilities, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Water and Waste sectors. Raj has extensive experience in complex M&A transactions including acquisition and project financing. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Raj was a member of the project financing team at Barclays Capital in London. Prior to joining Barclays Capital, Raj worked as a Vice President at Kotak Securities (a then affiliate of Goldman Sachs), in Mumbai, India.

Mehrdad Noorani, GIP representative
Mehrdad is a partner of GIP based in London. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Airport Finance at GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS).  Prior to joining GE, Mr. Noorani was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston and a senior member of the firm’s Transportation and Logistics Group in London, which he joined in 1991.  

James Kowalishin, Highstar Capital representative
James joined Highstar Capital as a Senior Advisor in 2008 and became a Partner in 2009.  He is Co-Head of Investments & Asset Management and serves on Highstar Capital’s Investment Committee and Management Committee. Prior to joining Highstar, Mr. Kowalishin worked extensively with the Highstar Team as Managing Director of Banque AIG in London and was a director of Hambros in London

Emmett McCann, Highstar Capital representative
Mr. McCann joined Highstar in 2009 and has over 13 years of experience in private equity, investment banking and finance. Prior to joining Highstar, he was an executive director at Morgan Stanley, where he helped lead the firm's infrastructure effort in Europe. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was a member of Goldman Sachs' North American infrastructure investment banking team.

Other Senior Management

Darren Grover, Chief Operating Officer
Darren joined London City Airport to set up and manage the Jet Centre which saw a 400 per cent increase in movements in the first five years. He later transferred to the role of director, ramp services, where he was responsible for over 200 staff working at the heart of the airport's operations. In his role as COO Darren reports to the airport's chief executive and oversees the day-to-day running of the airport including terminal services, safety, aerodrome operations, engineering, projects, property, sales and jet centre.

Matthew Hall, Chief Commercial Officer
Matthew Hall was appointed Chief Commercial Officer for London City Airport in March 2011. In this role he has overall responsibility for commercial airline relationships and all other commercial activity including retail, food and beverage, parking, advertising, marketing, PR and ‘e’ commerce. Prior to this, Matthew spent five years as Vice President of Airline and Supplier Business Development at Cendant Travel and Distribution Services, later known as Travelport, following the demerger of Cendant. In this position he was responsible for the sale of technology and distribution services to airline, hotel, car hire, and rail customers. Before joining Cendant in 2006, Matthew spent fourteen years in the airline sector with United Airlines then with American Airlines where his most recent position was Managing Director Sales, Marketing & Reservations for Europe, Middle East & Africa.                          

Walker Guidelines

The Walker Guidelines set out best practice for qualifying portfolio companies owned by private equity investors. London City Airport does not meet the criteria of a qualifying portfolio company under these guidelines however it is disclosing additional information as a matter of best corporate practice as set out below.

Reports

Annual update – year end 31 December 2010
Interim Report - 6 months ended 30 Jun 2010
Annual update - year end 31 December 2009 
Interim update - 6 months ended 30 June 2009
Review of the Business 2011