Next 15 Group Management

Management criteria checks 1/4

Next 15 Group's CEO is Sam Knights, appointed in Jun 2025, has a tenure of less than a year. total yearly compensation is £404.00K, comprised of 67.8% salary and 32.2% bonuses, including company stock and options. directly owns 0.06% of the company’s shares, worth $232.40K. The average tenure of the management team and the board of directors is 0.9 years and 1.1 years respectively.

Key information

Sam Knights

Chief executive officer

UK£404.0k

Total compensation

CEO salary percentage	67.82%
CEO tenure	less than a year
CEO ownership	0.06%
Management average tenure	less than a year
Board average tenure	1.1yrs

Recent management updates

Recent updates

CEO Compensation Analysis

How has Sam Knights's remuneration changed compared to Next 15 Group's earnings?
Date	Total Compensation	Salary	Company Earnings
Jan 31 2026	UK£404k	UK£274k	-UK£15m

Compensation vs Market: Sam's total compensation ($USD542.09K) is below average for companies of similar size in the US market ($USD2.60M).

Compensation vs Earnings: Insufficient data to compare Sam's compensation with company performance.

CEO

Sam Knights (43 yo)

less than a year

Tenure

UK£404,000

Compensation

Mr. Samuel Thomas James Knights, also known as Sam, is Director of Next 15 Group plc from July 1, 2025 and also serves as Chief Executive Officer June 2025.

Leadership Team

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Samuel Thomas Knights	CEO & Director	less than a year	UK£404.00k	0.060% $ 232.4k
Maneck Kalifa	CFO & Director	less than a year	UK£387.00k	0.031% $ 120.5k
Mark Sanford	General Counsel & Company Secretary	5.3yrs	no data	no data

0.9yrs

Average Tenure

56yo

Average Age

Experienced Management: NXFT.Y's management team is not considered experienced ( 0.9 years average tenure), which suggests a new team.

Board Members

Name	Position	Tenure	Compensation	Ownership
Samuel Thomas Knights	CEO & Director	less than a year	UK£404.00k	0.060% $ 232.4k
Maneck Kalifa	CFO & Director	less than a year	UK£387.00k	0.031% $ 120.5k
Mark Astaire	Independent Non-Executive Director	1.3yrs	UK£62.00k	0.018% $ 71.4k
Penelope Ladkin-Brand	Independent Non-Executive Chairman	8.8yrs	UK£162.00k	0.091% $ 353.4k
Samantha Wren	Senior Independent Non-Executive Director	less than a year	UK£51.00k	no data
Paul Butler	Independent Non-Executive Director	3.9yrs	UK£61.00k	no data

1.1yrs

Average Tenure

57yo

Average Age

Experienced Board: NXFT.Y's board of directors are not considered experienced ( 1.1 years average tenure), which suggests a new board.

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/05/29 15:34
End of Day Share Price	2026/04/22 00:00
Earnings	2026/01/31
Annual Earnings	2026/01/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Next 15 Group plc is covered by 10 analysts. 5 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
William Larwood	Berenberg
Iain Daly	Canaccord Genuity
Caspar James Erskine	CGS International