Wates Group Appoints New Corporate Development Director

Wates Group has appointed Esther English as its new Corporate Development Director with immediate effect.

Reporting to Chief Executive, David Allen, and supporting the Group’s Executive Committee, Esther will lead the Group’s strategic planning activities. In doing so, she will oversee the work that is underway to achieve the Group’s diversity, inclusion, and environmental goals, and will explore new opportunities to make Wates more progressive, more trusted, and more sustainably profitable.


A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Esther joined the Wates Group in August 2020 as maternity cover for the Chief of Staff. Before this, she worked at Crossrail for five years, most recently as Head of Reporting, and at KPMG and Reed Global. She holds an MA in Experimental Psychology from St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and was Treasurer of the Association for Business Psychology from 2015 to 2019.