William Douie
Group Executive Chairman
After two years in export sales, commencing in 1962, with British Oxygen, he moved into banking with Midland Bank and qualified as an associate of the Institute of Bankers. In 1969 he moved into Merchant Banking, joining Keyser Ullmann Limited and spent six years in Investment Management before joining the Bank Board in 1975. In 1981, following the merger of Keyser Ullmann and Charterhouse Japhet, he left to buy out, and become Chairman of, the Group's Instalment Credit subsidiary, Broadcastle Plc, and to become Chairman of British Benzol Limited, a fully listed company in the solid fuel industry. Following the acquisition by Broadcastle of Harton Securities Limited, he oversaw the merger of Broadcastle Plc and ATA Selection Plc, a USM listed recruitment company, before becoming Chairman of the Group in 1990. He joined with Clive Chapman in 1992 to purchase the ailing ATA Recruitment business from the group, and remains Executive Chairman.
Andrew Bailey
Group Managing Director
Andrew spent five years with a provincial accounting practice, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in June 1982, when he moved to KPMG. Having progressed to departmental manager within a general department, working on audit, accounting, tax, reporting and investigation work, Andrew left in 1987 to join Eagle Trust plc as a divisional financial controller. In 1990 he joined Sanderson CFL Ltd, a computer software and services business, as Finance Director. Andrew was appointed Managing Director of Sanderson CFL Ltd in 1993 and also held a number of non-executive roles within the Sanderson Group. On 24 April 2003, Andrew was appointed to the Board as Commercial Director of ATA Group Plc and became Group Managing Director in January 2006.