Meet the board
London City Airport is owned by Macquarie Asset Management and Wren House Infrastructure.
Representatives from each organisation sit on the airport’s board, taking responsibility for setting our long-term strategy and overseeing performance to make sure we meet our objectives.
Mel Ewell | Chairman of the Board
Mel was appointed Chair of London City Airport in December 2023. Mel’s career spans 35 years, with 15 spent as CEO of the leading UK public and regulated services provider Amey. Under his tenure he successfully guided Amey through its sale to Ferrovial before retiring in 2016. He previously held a number of senior management positions for TNT International, Xerox and ADI Group.
Mel is a Trustee of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. He studied at Kingston University where he gained a BSc (Hons) in Geography and subsequently an honorary doctorate.
Sara Sulaiman | Macquarie Asset Management
Sara joined Macquarie Asset Management as Managing Director in June 2025. She has over 25 years’ experience in the energy, industrials and infrastructure sectors within industry as well as investment banking and principal investing. She started her career at Petroleum Development Oman and Shell Chemicals and then moved to corporate finance advisory and investment banking at KPMG and Simmons and Company International, a boutique energy investment bank.
Prior to Macquarie Asset Management, she was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Asset Management where she was a Non-Executive Director on the boards of Southern Water, Nortegas (a Spanish regulated gas distribution business) and North Sea Midstream Partners.
Sara has a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge. She is a CIMA-qualified management accountant.
Maddy Saraf | Macquarie Asset Management
Maddy is a Director in the Mobility and Transport Sector Team within Macquarie Asset Management Real Assets, having joined them in 2009. With more than 16 years of experience in infrastructure and a particular focus on the transport sector, Maddy has played key roles on several projects, including the refinancing and ultimate sale of Bristol Airport, the successful acquisition and ultimate sale of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Southampton Airports (AGS Airports), acquisition of Farnborough Airport, and the recent acquisitions of Bristol, Birmingham and London City Airports.
She has previously held board positions on AGS Airports, a portfolio of three regional airports in the UK that Macquarie Asset Management owned and managed for a period of 10 years in a joint venture with Ferrovial. She is currently on the board of Birmingham Airport.
Maddy holds a Master of Science in economics and econometrics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Angus Clarke | Macquarie Asset Management
Angus is Chief Commercial Officer at ABRA Group. He has more than two decades of global experience in the airline industry, with deep expertise in commercial strategy, customer experience, network planning, fleet management, and corporate development.
He previously held various leadership positions at Air France-KLM, serving as Chief Commercial Officer from 2022 to 2025, Executive Vice President of Strategy from 2019 to 2022, and Senior Advisor from 2018 to 2019. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Blue Peak Aviation in 2022. He has a Master of Science in Air Transport from Cranfield University.
Phil Bownes | Wren House Infrastructure
Phil is General Counsel at Wren House Infrastructure. He is primarily responsible for legal and compliance matters associated with Wren House and the transactions it undertakes, as well as managing Wren House’s external legal relationships and advising Wren House’s Board and Senior Management. Phil is also a Board Director of Voyage Care.
Prior to joining Wren House in 2014, Phil worked in private practice for Slaughter and May’s London and Hong Kong offices and the London office of White and Case.
He has a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and is a qualified solicitor admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Haris Shahzad | Wren House Infrastructure
Haris is Vice President at Wren House Infrastructure. He focuses on the evaluation and execution of infrastructure investments, as well as asset management.
Prior to joining Wren House in 2020, Haris worked in the Investment Banking division of Jefferies in London in the Power, Utilities & Infrastructure team as well as at M&G Investments (including at Infracapital).
Haris holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.