Peter Presland

Peter Presland has nearly 45 years’ experience in business, much of that at the highest levels of management within both public and private companies. A law graduate at King’s College, London, he also qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. In 1980, he joined C E Heath plc, a major publicly quoted international insurance group, including serving as the Chief Financial Officer from 1985-1990. He was promoted to become Heath’s Group Chief Executive in 1990, and in 1996, he devised the demerger of C E Heath’s computer services operations into a separate publicly listed company, Rebus Group plc, becoming its Chief Executive and in 1999 its Executive Chairman. Shareholders doubled their money in three years. Since 2001, Peter has pursued a portfolio non-executive career. These appointments include the Chairmanship in 2003 of LINK, the UK ATM network, where he led a major corporate governance change and completed the merger of LINK with Voca, the provider of the BACS service, becoming Chairman of VocaLink in 2007. From 2012 to 2015, he served as Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee of East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust and in 2019 was asked to become Chairman of the Audit and Governance Committee of The Lord’s Taverners, a high-profile charity.