Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 8, 1999

Duncan Godefroy – Sutton Harbour Holdings (suh.l)

DUNCAN GODEFROY, 59, is Managing Director of Sutton Harbour Holdings, the operators of Plymouth's historic harbour and property developers along the waterfront. Duncan Godefroy joined Sutton Harbour in 1962, after a career in the transport industry. He has been a Director of the company since 1966 and is the principal architect of its transformation from a run-down commercial harbour to a successful business with interests ranging from fisheries to a yacht marina and boat building complex as well as a significant property developer. In 1973, Duncan Godefroy became Managing Director of Sutton Harbour Company and CEO of Sutton Harbour Holdings in 1989. Duncan is a noted local historian with a particular interest in historic Sutton Harbour and the surrounding Barbican area. He is also a Justice of the Peace who regularly sits in Court in his home town of Plymouth. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Transport and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing, and Commerce. Profile
TWST: If you would, first, give us a background summary on Sutton

Harbour Holdings '' enough information to put us into context, what you

see as your business, what you see as your company today?