Corporate: Directors

Dr Derek Douglas, CBE
Non-Executive Chairman

Derek Douglas, Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Carlton Bingo, is a corporate financier who owns Adam Smith Ltd., an Edinburgh-based finance house specialising in small companies. Adam Smith Ltd. has advised Carlton Clubs since its first management buy-out in 1998 and is a shareholder of the company.

Peter Perrins
Managing Director

Peter Perrins, Managing Director of Carlton Bingo, qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Scotland in 1973, having served an apprenticeship with Davidson Smith, Wighton & Crawford C.A. Shortly after qualifying he joined the London Office of Price Waterhouse & Co., until returning to Scotland and joining Caledonian Associated Cinemas Limited (now Taylor Clark Leisure Limited) in Inverness as Financial Controller in October 1976.

Caledonian Associated Cinemas Limited, who were part of the Taylor Clark group, a London Based property company, were a significant independent cinema and bingo operator in Scotland.

In 1983 he was appointed Company Secretary and in 1986 appointed Financial Director. In 1992 he was appointed Group Managing Director with overall responsibility for Taylor Clark’s leisure operations in Scotland. By this time, the Group was no longer solely operating cinemas and bingo clubs but had also acquired Littlejohns Restaurants as well as Flicks Nightclubs.

1994 saw the Company acquire Fairworld Bingo Clubs Limited in the North East of England and an integration of that core business into Carlton Clubs plc. In 1998, Peter Perrins led the successful management team in the acquisition of the bingo division of Taylor Clark Leisure Ltd, Carlton Clubs plc, and repeated this feat in 2002 with a secondary management buyout of the venture capitalist interests.

George Carter
Financial Director

George Carter is Financial Director of Carlton Clubs, having joined the board of the then CAC Leisure in 1992 and the main board of Taylor Clark Leisure plc in 1994. George became Company Secretary in 1991 and Financial Director in 1994.

George is university educated, gaining his Bsc (Computer Science) from Aberdeen University in 1977 followed by a post-graduate accounting Diploma from Heriot Watt University in 1978. Qualifying as a chartered accountant with Thornton Baker, Edinburgh in 1981, he then moved to the Milan office of Arthur Young and joined Caledonian Associated Cinemas plc in 1982 as financial accountant with the specific remit of implementing new computer systems. George also tutored for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in IT at that time.

He continued to improve and develop systems in the Company, with involvement across the Group’s activities of Properties, Bingo, Cinema’s, Nightclubs and Restaurants. George was instrumental in both the 1998 management buyout and subsequent secondary buyout in 2002.

In 2001 George joined the board of the Maggie Keswicks Jencks Cancer Caring Centre (Inverness), which aims to provide cancer care facilities in the Highlands. George’s interests include Classic Cars, Sailing and playing the fiddle particularly badly.

Brian King
Operations Director

Brian King began his leisure career in Kirkcaldy and has extensive knowledge of the Fife leisure market. He started in the bingo industry in 1970, working for Pleasurama and Mecca before becoming area manager for Kingsway Entertainments. In 1988, he joined Carlton Clubs as Regional Controller and was appointed to the Board in 1991 as Regional Director. He is now Director of Operations North of Scotland and North East England.

Brian is a Director of the National Bingo Association, sits on the Executive Council of The Bingo Association and has held a Section 19 Certificate of Approval from the Gaming Board for Great Britain since 1976.

Christopher Barr
Operations Director

Chris Barr began his leisure career in Kirkcaldy and has extensive knowledge of the Fife leisure market. He joined Kingsway Entertainment in 1976 as a Trainee Manager, managing clubs before becoming Area Manager in 1987. Following Kingsway’s acquisition by Granada in 1989, he left to join Carlton Clubs as Manager of their Stirling Club. In 1994, he became Regional Controller and in 1997 was appointed to the Board as Regional Director. He is now Director of Operations Central Scotland. Chris holds a Section 19 Certificate of Approval from the Gaming Board for Great Britain.

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