Ashley House plc announced the appointment of Christopher Peter Lyons as Non Executive Chairman. Chris replaces Sir William Wells who steps down after six years of service. Chris has extensive experience in strategic planning, corporate governance, banking and housing finance.

His career spans 35 years, first with Abbey National, where he held senior executive positions in Finance and Operations latterly spearheading Abbey National's innovation unit, creating and launching Cahoot the online Internet Bank. Chris then joined the executive board of Minster Trust Ltd.