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Chris Glasson, Finance Director, joined IP Group in 2016 after ten years in finance roles at organisations including Tesco and The Carphone Warehouse. He is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with Deloitte, and holds Economics degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Toulouse

The Property Franchise Group PLC (AIM: TPFG) is the UK's largest multi-brand property franchisor, with a network of over 1,900 outlets delivering high quality services to residential clients, combined with an established Financial Services business.

The Company was founded in 1986 and has since strategically grown to a diverse portfolio of 18 brands operating throughout the UK, comprising longstanding high-street focused brands and two hybrid brands. The Property Franchise Group is also a member of two leading mortgage networks through its mortgage brokers, Brook Financial (MAB) and The Mortgage Genie (Primis).

TPFG's brands are: Belvoir, CJ Hole, Country Properties, Ellis & Co, EweMove, Fine & Country, Hunters, Lovelle, Martin & Co, Mr and Mrs Clarke, Mullucks, Newton Fallowell, Nicholas Humphreys, Northwood, Parkers, The Guild of Property Professionals and Whitegates.

Headquartered in Bournemouth, the Company was listed on AIM on the London Stock Exchange in 2013 and entered the AIM 100 in July 2024.

Gareth Samples, CEO

With over 38 years’ industry experience, Gareth brings a wealth of Estate Agency, Lettings, Financial Services and digital marketing knowledge to The Property Franchise Group (TPFG).

During his 21 year career at LSL, Gareth was appointed Managing Director of the Your Move brand, which was the largest single brand estate agency in the UK at the time. In this role he was responsible for Your Move’s franchise operation as well as having overall control of Financial Services and Lettings and the strategy of the brand.  Following his successful career at LSL, Gareth became Managing Director of Briefyourmarket.com where he gained significant digital marketing experience and knowledge, along with a number of Non-Exec roles within the industry as well as starting a successful restaurant chain.

Gareth joined TPFG in February 2020 and became CEO on 30 April 2020.  As CEO of TPFG, Gareth has overseen significant growth of the business acquiring Hunters Estate Agency in 2021, and more recently Belvoir Group followed by The Guild and Fine & Country in the first 6 months of 2024.  The combined group now operates 18 recognised brands across 1900+ locations including 65 international locations making it the largest estate and lettings agent in the UK.

Ben Dodds, CFO

Ben joined The Property Franchise Group in October 2024 and became Chief Financial Officer in January 2025. Ben was previously Chief Financial Officer at Lotus Cars and was integral to the flotation of the Lotus Technology business on NASDAQ at a value of $5.4 billion. At Lotus he was also heavily involved in developing the growth plan under the current owners and returning the business to profitability in 2023. Prior to Lotus, Ben was Director of Strategy and Commercial Finance at Sunseeker International where he oversaw the restructuring and return to profitability. He is a Chartered Accountant, having qualified with PwC.

Getech provides trusted subsurface and geospatial insight to organisations across the global natural resources sector. We help corporates, governments, and regulators find and manage the subsurface resources essential to the evolving energy and minerals landscape by combining unique global earth‑science data, leading geospatial expertise and advanced analytics. Our solutions reduce risk, accelerate opportunities and enhance project value throughout the resource lifecycle, supporting activity across oil and gas, critical minerals, geothermal, natural hydrogen and other emerging resource domains.
Founded in 1994 Getech is listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM"), with ticker symbol GTC.
For further information, please visit www.getech.com.

Chris Jepps, CEO

Chris was appointed Getech’s CEO in January 2025 and has extensive energy industry, geology, GIS and entrepreneurial experience. Prior to being appointed CEO, Chris spent nearly 7 years on the Getech Board of Directors as COO, during which time he led the Group’s product and services strategy with the aim of growing revenues from Getech’s core and emerging markets. Some of his key achievements in this time include enhancing its oil and gas workflow products to meet the changing needs of the energy market, migrating Globe from its legacy delivery model to a modern cloud-based architecture that enabled the launch of a subscription model as well as better supporting wider energy transition sector adoption, and introducing cloud-based subscription models for its global gravity and magnetic data holdings to better serve the needs of Getech’s mining customer-base. Chris has a BSc in Geology from Imperial College, London, and is an alumnus of Esri’s global Partner Advisory Council.

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