Companies House is pleased to announce that Tim Moss has been appointed as the new Registrar of Companies for England and Wales and as Chief Executive of Companies House. Tim has been carrying out this role on a temporary basis since March 2012 but will now take up this position on a permanent basis, becoming the 31st Registrar of Companies in a long line that dates back to 1844.
Tim joined Companies House in 2002 and spent the first couple of years running the operations and compliance departments before moving into the role of Director of Corporate Strategy. In that role he had a wide portfolio of work including business strategy, corporate policy, marketing, internal audit, corporate communications as well as leading the work on moving to a fully electronic register and service transformation. Before joining Companies House he spent 12 years in senior operational roles in the manufacturing industry. He has a Natural Sciences degree from Cambridge University, an MBA from Swansea University and lives on a farm in South Wales.