---
title: "DESIGN BRIDGE LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae
identifier: oo:GB-COH-02044752
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# DESIGN BRIDGE LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** [GB](https://whiteintel.dev/jurisdictions/gb)  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-02044752`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Sir William Mclernon Goodenough** (beneficial owner) — 50% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/399c905f-d92b-5d44-a20a-cc1fc5b8fed7
- **WPP GROUP (UK) LTD** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/10db8af7-d407-5ae2-bbf6-38b384c5a612
- **Sir William Mclernon Goodenough** (beneficial owner) — 37.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/2356fbd9-5d96-4703-8592-d6d61bc5bae0

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

A **34-step** ownership/control chain to the ultimate beneficial owner is resolved for this entity. The full cited chain unlocks with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `02044752`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 1986-08-08
- **Registered office:** Sea Containers, 18 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PD, England
- **SIC:** 82990

### Officers

- [WPP GROUP (NOMINEES) LIMITED](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/732a7ef9-72c4-54c8-9e4d-625c2c57a5cd) — corporate secretary · appointed 2017-08-22
- DUNTON, Nicholas James — director · British · appointed 2018-07-24
- LIGHTOLLER, Thomas Charles — director · British · appointed 2025-11-18
- MORRIS, John — director · British · appointed 2017-10-18
- HAWKINS, Michael — secretary · British · resigned 2017-08-22
- BLACK, Ian Simon — director · British · appointed 2017-10-18 · resigned 2022-07-01
- BOWERS, Johanna Maria — director · Dutch · appointed 1997-12-16 · resigned 2017-11-01
- FORBES, John Alistair Ponsonby — director · British · resigned 2017-08-22
- GOODENOUGH, William Mclernon, Sir — director · British · resigned 2019-03-14
- GRAINGER, Dominic Charles — director · British · appointed 2020-08-20 · resigned 2023-03-20
- HAWKINS, Michael — director · British · appointed 1993-12-07 · resigned 2018-07-24
- LAWDER, Philip Michael — director · British · resigned 2000-07-01
- MARSHALL, Jill Yvette — director · British · appointed 2003-08-01 · resigned 2005-10-31
- MELLMAN, Laurence Adrian — director · British · appointed 2017-10-18 · resigned 2020-06-25
- PATTISON, Lindsay — director · British · appointed 2019-03-21 · resigned 2025-05-23
- PERKINS, Timothy — director · British · appointed 2017-10-18 · resigned 2026-07-31
- PETRIE, Roderick Alexander — director · British · resigned 2014-03-01
- RIVETT, David — director · British · appointed 1993-12-01 · resigned 2001-04-30
- ROGERS, George Shepardson — director · American · appointed 2017-08-22 · resigned 2019-05-28
- SHEARSBY, Graham Edward — director · British · appointed 2003-01-01 · resigned 2017-11-01

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Wpp Group (Uk) Ltd](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/10db8af7-d407-5ae2-bbf6-38b384c5a612) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2017-08-22
- Sir William Mclernon Goodenough — 25–50% shares · individual PSC · England — ceased 2017-08-22

## Exposure (derived from the ownership graph)

**1** owner upstream in this entity's ownership/control chain is flagged — a sanctions hit or a secrecy jurisdiction — an investigative lead by resolved identity, not a legal determination. The contributing parties and the hop-by-hop path unlock with a paid API key or a one-off dossier — https://whiteintel.dev/pricing.

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02044752
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02044752

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **DESIGN BRIDGE LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6b01586b-2e13-5abc-95ce-c41bfbc337ae._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._