Audley Group, the UK’s provider of luxury retirement villages, has appointed Gary Burton to its group board as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Burton, previously CFO at easyHotel, the owner, developer, operator and franchiser of branded hotels, will join Audley with immediate effect and work alongside Audley’s retiring CFO, Jon Austen, to ensure a smooth transition.
With a wealth of financial experience honed over 22 years working at leading businesses - including the FTSE100 company Kingfisher - he will be instrumental in accelerating Audley’s growth plans.
With a growing market presence comprising 20 retirement villages, Audley Group operates under two brands in the UK- Audley Villages and the mid-market Mayfield Villages.
Gary Burton, CFO, Audley Group, said: ‘Audley is a business that I have watched and admired from afar for a long time so I’m delighted to be joining at such a strategically important time. Providing accommodation options that enable older people to move out of their family home and into purposefully designed communities is, at the current time especially, exactly what the country needs, so the growth trajectory for the business is genuinely exciting.’
