Trustee Biographies

An engineer by training, Bill spent over 20 years in the private sector in marketing and operations roles for large and small companies in the electronics market, mostly based in Scotland. The requirement by the Scottish Government for non-executives for departmental management boards coincided with Bill's increasing conviction that it was time to contribute his business expertise to the public sector, fuelled by his experience as a non-executive at the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. Bill combines his business and managerial expertise with long involvement in public service broadcasting through his membership of the Broadcasting Council and then the Audience Council for Scotland. Bill was appointed as chairman of the BBC Pension Scheme Trustees in November 2011.

Geoff Jones was elected as the Scheme's pensioner Trustee in June 2005. He was head of the Pension and Benefits Centre supervising the administration of the Scheme from 1994 until his retirement in 2001. He worked in personnel and administration throughout his 33 year career with the BBC. Geoff is vice chair of the Finance, Risk and Audit Committee.

Zarin Patel is the BBC's Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that she was Head of Revenue Management at the BBC. Before joining the BBC in 1998 as Group Financial Controller, she worked as a chartered accountant with KPMG, where she had 15 years' experience of working with multinational companies. She is also a governor of the University of Arts in London. Zarin became a Trustee in 2005. She chairs the Investment Committee.

Grant Cassidy is a senior studio manager and has worked for the BBC for 16 years. Grant is also on the National Joint Council, negotiating with the BBC at a national level in his role as a BECTU trade union representative. Grant was elected in 2006. He sits on the Investment Committee.

Rhodri Lewis is a Senior Broadcast Journalist, in the BBC Wales Newsroom. He has worked for the BBC for 20 years and is also Deputy Father of Chapel for the NUJ in Wales.
Rhodri became a Trustee from May 2008. He sits on the Benefits Committee.

Andy Griffee is Editorial Director of the BBC's W1 Project. He is responsible for the co-location of BBC News and BBC Global (including the World Service) alongside BBC Audio and Music at the newly expanded Broadcasting House in W1 during 2012. Andy was previously controller, BBC English Regions for nearly ten years having been appointed to the post in 1999, just 11 years after joining the BBC as a Broadcast Journalist. Griffee began his career in journalism after studying on the National Council for the Training of Journalists course at Highbury College, Portsmouth. He served his apprenticeship in weekly newspaper journalism at Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch in 1982/1983 with the Southern Newspaper group. Andy became a Trustee in April 2009. He is vice chair of the Investment Committee.

Andy Baker is the BBC's Controller of Major Infrastructure Projects. He is responsible for the requirements gathering, procurement and delivery of all technology associated with Salford Quays in Salford and Broadcasting House in London. The investment in our digital infrastructure means that for the first time in the BBC's history all the key network and global services in Television, Radio, News and Online can be brought together in a single site - centred on the iconic Broadcasting House, now reinvented for the digital age with state-of-the-art digital production.

Andy was previously Audio & Music's Head of Technology and prior to this, he held various roles in the BBC including Contract and Account Manager for the BBC Managed Telecoms Services and Project Manager in the Communications & Control section of BBC Transmission where he oversaw a number of transmitter re-engineering projects and the implementation of RDS.

Andy Joined the BBC in 1982 after completing an O.N.D. in Technology at Fareham College. Outside of work, Andy can sometimes be found developing technology solutions and gadgets for remote controlling his increasingly environmentally sustainable house. He is also a Trustee of The Grace Wyndham Goldie Trust, as well as being the Chairman of the BBC (London) Club. Andy became a Trustee in November 2011.

Kevin Carter is Chairman of Murray International Trust PLC, and a non-executive director of Lowland Investment Company PLC. He is a Trustee of the BBC Pension Trust Limited and Chairman of its Investment Committee, and a Director of the Centrica Combined Common Investment Fund. He is also chairman of Hermes GPE LLP, a private equity and infrastructure asset manager. He was Chief Executive of Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) Limited from 1987 to 2000, and Chief Executive of Old Mutual Asset Managers (US) LLC from 2000 to 2001. He then became a Senior Investment Consultant, and ultimately European Head of Investment Practice at Watson Wyatt. Subsequently he joined JPMorgan in London as a Managing Director and Head of the EMEA Pension Advisory Group. He is a former member of the NAPF Investment Council and Chair of the Shareholder Affairs Committee. He holds the CFA and FSIP designations and an MBA and Ph.D.

Ken MacQuarrie became Director, BBC Scotland in April 2009.

He had been Controller since April 2004 and Head of Programmes from 2000 when he had responsibility for production and commissioning of all BBC output broadcast in Scotland on television, radio and online.

A native of Mull and a Gaelic speaker, he was educated at Oban, Edinburgh University and Moray House College of Education before joining BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1975. He went on to work as a radio producer for BBC Highland before transferring to television in 1979, where he worked as a producer in Glasgow.

During this period Ken MacQuarrie introduced daily Gaelic children's programmes on television, developed the investigative current affairs programme Prosbaig and launched the award-winning series Eorpa and De a-Nis? In 1992 he became both Head of Gaelic and Features and of Children's, complementing the output in gaelic with English language factual programmes and also setting up a children's production base for the UK networks.

Four years later he was appointed Head of Broadcast and in 2000 became Head of Programmes.

Among the major projects he has overseen in that role are In Search Of Scotland, Chewin' The Fat, Still Game, Gruth Is Uachdar (Crowdie And Cream) and Scotland's Empire on television and, on Radio Scotland, Gracenotes, Off The Ball and Lesley Riddoch.

A former board member of the Scottish Film Council and the Celtic Film and Television Association, Ken MacQuarrie has also taken a leading role in a number of BBC internal initiatives such as the move to Pacific Quay. He is Chair of the Skillset Scottish National Board, Vice-President of the Royal Television Society.

He is married with three children and among his many interests are sailing, reading and walking.