Management team
 
The board of directors - click on the image for a biography

Jonathan Paveley - Group Commercial Director
Jonathan Paveley, 45, was appointed Commercial Director with effect from May 2004. He joined the Group from Greene King, where he was Strategy Director, responsible for strategic development and purchasing, during which time he led a series of acquisitions and a major internal change programme. Prior to Greene King he was a member of the MBO team at the Gaymer Group and an investment banker with County Nat West. Jonathan is also Chairman of Matthew Clark Holdings (a 50:50 joint venture company formed in April 2007 between Punch Taverns and Constellation Europe).
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Roger Whiteside - Managing Director - Leased
Roger Whiteside, 50, was appointed to the Executive Board of Punch as Managing Director of Punch Leased in November 2008. Roger has spent nearly 30 years working in the retail sector and prior to joining Punch he was Chief Operating Office for the Thresher Group. Previous to this Roger was one of the founders of online grocer Ocado and he spent over 20 years with Marks & Spencer. Whilst he was with M&S Roger held a number of roles within the company's food retailing division championing the company's far reaching strategic review and exceeding targets for recovering and growing market share.
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Mike Tye - Managing Director - Spirit
Mike Tye, 54, was appointed to the Executive Board of Punch in July 2008. Mike has spent nearly 20 years working in many different areas of the leisure business, mainly with Whitbread, Forte and Aramark. In recent years, he has been Managing Director of Costa Coffee; Managing Director of Premier Travel Inn (where he led the acquisition and integration of Premier Lodge to Travel Inn); and David Lloyd Leisure, where he led the business turnaround and sale of the company. He has spent a number of years working in the pub and casual dining markets, after an early career in managing FMCG brands and running his own wine and spirit retail and wholesale business.
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Peter Cawdron - Independent Non-executive Chairman
Peter Cawdron, 65, was appointed Non-executive Chairman in January 2007, having joined Punch as a Non-executive Director in May 2003. He retired from the Board of Grand Metropolitan plc in 1997, where he had held the position of Group Strategy Director for 10 years and Group Planning Director for four years. Previously, he had spent six years in the United States as Chief Financial Officer of D’Arcy MacManus & Masius Worldwide, Inc., the international advertising agency business based in New York and 7 years at S.G.Warburg & Co. Ltd in London. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1966 at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. He is also Chairman of Spice plc and a Non-executive Director of ProStraken plc, Johnston Press plc and BUPA.
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Fritz Ternofsky - Senior Independent Non-executive Director
Fritz Ternofsky, 65, was appointed Senior Independent Non-executive Director of Punch in May 2002. He was previously a member of the board of Compass from 1993 to 2000, also serving as Chief Executive for UK and Scandinavia from 1993 to 1999. He is currently a Senior Non-executive Director of Care UK plc. He is also Chairman of Close Income, Growth VCT plc, Kew Green Hotels and Wates Group, a privately owned construction company. 
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Ian Fraser - Independent Non-executive Director
Ian Fraser, 51, was appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director in September 2004. He is currently Chief Executive of Kwik Fit, having previously been Trading Director of Safeway Stores plc and Chief Operating Officer of Orange UK. Ian is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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Mike Foster - Independent Non-executive Director
Mike Foster, 63, was appointed Independent Non-executive Director of Punch with effect from May 2002. Prior to his appointment he was Chief Executive of Inntrepreneur Estates from 1995 until 1998, Chief Executive of Courage Limited from 1987 until 1995, Chairman of Leisure link Ltd from 1998 until its sale in 2001, Chairman of the British Pub & Beer Association from 1998 until 2001 and Non-executive Director of Geest from 1993 until 1999. He currently has two other Non-executive Directorships: Roxton Bailey Robinson Ltd and Innserve Ltd.
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Mark Pain - Independent Non-executive Director
Mark Pain, 47, was appointed Independant Non-executive Director in December 2007 and brings with him approaching 10 years’ experience as a FTSE 100 Main Board Director covering housebuilding, retail and wholesale banking, consumer and business finance and life assurance, both in the UK and selected European markets. Mark is currently Chief Financial Officer of Barratt Developments plc. He was previously at Abbey National Group plc, where he held a number of senior management roles from 1989 to 2005 including Group Finance Director from 1998 to 2001 and Customer Sales Director from 2002 to 2005. Prior to this, Mark was at TSB Group plc from 1987 to 1989 and Touche Ross and Co. (now Deloitte & Touche). Mark is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA).
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Tony Rice - Independent Non-executive Director
Tony Rice, 56, was appointed Independant Non-executive Director in December 2007 and brings with him many years’ experience at board level with some of the UK’s leading companies. He spent 16 years with BAE Systems (formerly British Aerospace) where he had various roles from 1986 to 2002, culminating in the role as Group Managing Director of Commercial Aircraft responsible for the UK Airbus and Commercial Aircraft Business. He then spent three years at Tunstall plc as Chief Executive from 2002 until its sale to Bridgepoint in 2005. Tony is Chief Executive Officer of International, reporting to the Chairman of Cable and Wireless plc where he is responsible for all corporate functions as well as structuring and driving performance of business units to realise future value. Tony was also a Non Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Cable & Wireless from 2003 to 2006 and at Telewest from 2000 to 2003.
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Ian Wilson - Independent Non-Executive Director
Ian Wilson, 50, was appointed Independant Non-executive Director in December 2007 and has over 20 years' experience as a corporate lawyer and investment banker. Ian was an Elected Partner at Baker & McKenzie’s Sydney office in 1986 where he specialised in corporate finance and taxation. From there he had 14 years at UBS Australasia, initially as Executive Director Private Equity from 1986-1993, before moving on to become Deputy Chairman and Managing Director in UBS Australia/NZ Corporate Finance operations from 1993-2000. Ian is currently Strategic Development Director of Amcor Limited, the Australian-based leading global speciality plastics packaging company, where he has been responsible for overall strategic development of the Group since 2000. He has also been Chairman of Amcor Flexibles Europe A/S since 2002 and Chairman of TMF-Group BV, the Amsterdam-based administrative services outsourcing business, since 2005.
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