Ian Ashcroft
Chief Executive, Regional Newspaper Division
Aged 55. Joined Manchester Evening News in 1972. Moved to Guardian Newspapers Limited where he became Deputy Managing Director. He was appointed to the Board in 1996. He is also Chairman of Trafford Park Printers Limited and Fish4 Limited and a Director of IFRA.

Jeremy Bullmore CBE+
Non-Executive
Aged 71. Joined the company and Board in 1988. He is a Non-Executive Director of WPP Group plc and was formerly Chairman of J. Walter Thompson Company (London) Limited.

Nicholas Castro
Group Finance Director
Aged 50. Joined the company and Board in 1998. He was previously Group Finance Director of Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Holdings plc and a partner with KPMG in London.

Giles Coode-Adams OBE DL*
Non-Executive
Aged 62. Joined the Board in 1999. He was formerly a Managing Director and then senior advisor to Lehman Brothers and from 1991 to 1997 was Chief Executive of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Foundation. He is a Non-Executive Director of The Simon Group plc and Rathbone Brothers plc. He also chairs the Audit Committee of the Guardian Media Group plc Board.

Elizabeth Forgan OBE+
Non-Executive
Aged 55. Joined the Board in 1998. Founder Senior Commissioning Editor Channel 4 TV. She was formerly the Managing Director of BBC Network Radio, a Guardian journalist and a member of The Scott Trust. She is Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund.

John Harris
Non-Executive
Aged 53. Joined the company in 1984 and was appointed to the Board in 1989. Was Chief Executive of Auto Trader Division until May 2000. Now Chief Executive of UK Publishing Division of Trader Media Group Limited.

Andrew Karney*+
Non-Executive
Aged 59. Joined the Board in 1997. He is a Director of Baronsmead VCT 3 plc, Communicandum Limited and a number of technology companies. He was for many years an Executive Director of Logica plc and was a founder Director of Cable London plc.

Carolyn McCall
Managing Director, National Newspaper Division
Aged 39. Joined the company in 1986. Appointed to the Board in 2000. She is a Non-Executive Director of New Look Group plc, and a Trustee of Tools for Schools (a business/education initiative co-founded by the Guardian).

Robert Phillis
Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group plc
Aged 55. Joined the company in December 1997 from the BBC where he was Deputy Director-General. He was previously Chief Executive of ITN, Group Managing Director of Carlton Communications plc and Managing Director of Central Independent Television plc.

Alan Rusbridger
Editor in Chief, The Guardian
Aged 47. Joined the Board in 1999. Joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979, became Deputy Editor in 1993, appointed to Guardian Newspapers Board in 1994 and became Editor in 1995. He is Executive Editor of the Observer.

Philip Boardman
Company Secretary
Aged 44. Joined the company and appointed Secretary in 2001. Previously he was Group Financial Controller of Hickson International PLC and Fenner PLC.

* Audit Committee
+ Remuneration Committee