The board of directors is collectively responsible for promoting the success of the company by directing and supervising the Group’s strategy. They are also responsible to shareowners for the Group’s financial and operational performance.

Chairman
Nick has been Chairman of Adventis since February 2011. He is a Senior Partner in WayPoint Change LLP which specialises in business turnaround.

Finance Director
Andrew, a chartered accountant, was appointed Finance Director of Adventis Group PLC on April 20th 2011. As a Senior Partner for 16 years, he formed and led KPMG’s Transaction Services business in the Midlands, building a multi-disciplined team of over 40 senior professionals supporting corporate, PE and bank clients on every type of M&A transaction. Andrew currently is a Senior Partner in WayPoint Change LLP specialising in hands-on business turnaround and M&A projects for banks and PE funds.

Non-Executive Director,
Chairman of the audit committee,
Member of the remuneration and nomination committees
Allan, a chartered accountant, is finance Director of Savills (L&P) Limited. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers working in the Corporate Taxation Department and the Advisory Division gaining experience of mergers and acquisitions. Prior to taking up his non-executive position Allan was part-time Finance Director of Adventis Group.

Non-Executive Director
Julian was appointed as non-Executive Director on September 15th 2010. He spent more than 20 years of his career in marketing and general management roles latterly at Diageo. He led a MBI/MBO of Media Audits Group with private equity funding in 2001 and subsequently sold the business to Accenture which he then joined as COO Accenture Marketing Sciences. Since then Julian has taken a number of directorships of businesses specialising in marketing services and thereby brings significant client and agency experience to Adventis.
Further to the announcements released on 7 December 2011 and 11 January 2012 regarding the disposal of certain assets held by its Media division, the Company is pleased to provide the following trading update regarding the year ended 31 December 2011.