COMMUNITY PROFILE

Catherine May

Chair

Shoreham Port

Experienced chair, non-executive director, adviser, and business leader. Currently Chair of ENO Trust, Senior Independent Director of South Staffordshire Water plc, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Remuneration & Nominations Committee for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association and, from January 2024, Chair at Shoreham Port. She has also served as Chair of Audit & Risk Committee. Adviser and leadership coach drawing on over 25 years of experience in leading highly successful FTSE 30 businesses with a global footprint.

Successful executive career as a business leader working for RELX, Centrica and SAB Miller, all at Executive Committee level. Functional leader across all areas of corporate affairs and reputation management including investor relations, sustainability, public affairs, media relations, employee engagements, corporate responsibility, corporate reporting, brand management, sponsorship and digital communications, issues management and crisis communications. Highly experienced in reputation management and mitigating reputation risk.

Expert in leading large, successful businesses through change, building internal winning culture, managing reputation, and delivering strong corporate governance. Strong track record in talent development and building motivated teams.

Active as a certified executive leadership coach with further qualifications in Neuroleadership, Brain Based Coaching, as a Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).