Mr. Jonathan Davies brings wide-ranging experience in retail, hospitality and real estate, following a 40-year career in both publicly listed and private equity backed businesses. Most recently, Jonathan served as the Group Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SSP Group plc, the leading food and beverage provider in the travel sector, with operations in 38 countries globally.

During his career at SSP, spanning 21 years, Jonathan has taken SSP into private ownership, in 2006, and listed it on the London Stock Exchange, in 2014. He has also overseen its expansion into many new markets, including North America, India, Australia and several South East Asia countries, through a combination of organic growth and M&A.

Jonathan has also served as a NED at Assura plc, the leading property REIT in the UK primary health care sector, between 2018 and 2025, where he was Senior Independent and Audit Committee Chair from 2019. Following the takeover of Assura by PHP plc late last year, Jonathan joined the board of PHP as a NED in December 2025.

Through his executive roles at Unilever, OC&C Strategy Consultants, Safeway, and SSP Group, Jonathan has acquired broad functional expertise spanning procurement, commercial marketing, M&A, information technology, corporate affairs and legal. He also brings extensive capital markets experience through IPOs and numerous equity and debt raises.

He holds a degree in Chemistry from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD in France.