Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 5, 2001

Brian Whitty – South Staffordshire Group Plc (ssf.l)

BRIAN H WHITTY FCA, age 47, was appointed Chief Executive of South Staffordshire Group Plc on 1st July 1998 having joined the group as Finance Director in July 1995. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1977, he held senior financial appointments within independent UK quoted groups in the construction and wider industrial sectors before joining Apricot Computers Plc in 1988. He was appointed to their board as Finance Director in 1990 and was involved in the development of ACT Group Plc as a global software and services business following the sale of its hardware division. Profile
TWST: Could you start us off with a quick corporate profile of the South

Staffordshire Group?

Mr. Whitty: South Staffordshire Group was formed nearly 150 years ago as

a water supply company