Matthew Moulding

CEO

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• Matthew founded The Hut Group in 2004 and moved full-time into the business in 2006.
• Qualified Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen.
• 8 years as Chief Financial Officer of 20:20, the distribution division of The Caudwell Group, revenues increased from £70m to £1.5bn.
• Led £365m sale of 20:20 to private equity in 2006, before moving full-time to The Hut Group.

Angus Monro

Chairman

• Angus is Non-Executive Chairman of The Hut Group.
• Angus has immense experience of the retail sector, having spent 13 years at Marks & Spencer, followed by 5 years at the Burton Group/Arcadia where he was Managing Director of Dorothy Perkins. He then spent 4 years at Kingfisher where he was trading Director at B&Q and Woolworths.
• Angus joined Matalan as a Non-Executive Director in 1991, becoming Chief Executive 5 years later and leading the retailer’s 1998 floatation.
• Between 2002-2008 Angus was a non-executive director at NSB Retail Systems prior to its sale in 2008.

Steven Whitehead

Commercial Director

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• Joined The Hut Group in January 2010 and is responsible for the Group’s category expansion strategy.
• Previously at Barclays Private Equity (€2.4bn mid-market private equity fund) and Altium Capital, focused on M&A and public & private company advisory.

John Gallemore

COO

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• Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder of The Hut Group.
• Chief executive Matthew Moulding and chief operating officer John Gallemore launched The Hut Group in 2004, both having previously worked for the mobile-phone retailer The Caudwell Group.
• They established the company to sell home-entertainment goods, using £500,000 of personal funds, and buying the domain name TheHut.com for £3,000.