Chairman, non-executive, British, aged 62, appointed to the Board on 14 June 2004, became Chairman on 1 November 2004; Chairman of the Nominations Committee. Currently non-executive director of Ricardo plc, Umeco plc, BBA Group plc and Hamilton, Bermuda–Catlin Group Limited. Formerly Chief Executive of Kidde plc and held senior roles with Vickers plc.

Chief Executive, British, aged 45, appointed to the Board on 23 November 2001. Previously Regional Managing Director, Central Europe, of BPB plc. Prior to this he held senior management positions with Rexam plc, responsible for their European film coating business, and for NFI Electronics. Following initial training in IT at STC, he joined Lucas in a production management role before studying for his MBA at INSEAD. He is a chartered mechanical and electrical engineer.

Finance Director, British, aged 52, appointed to the Board on 14 May 2002. Previously he held senior finance positions within GKN plc over a period of 11 years, including Finance Director of GKN Aerospace Division and Head of Corporate Finance for the group.

Non-executive, British, aged 60, appointed to the Board on 12 March 1997; stepped down as the Senior Independent Director on 1 March; member of the Nominations Committee. Currently, Chairman of the Financial Times Group, a director of Pearson plc, non-executive Chairman of the Windmill Partnership, Chairman of Common Purpose Europe and Chairman of Crisis, a charity for the homeless.

Non-executive, independent, British, aged 48, appointed to the Board on 1 March 2006; member of the Audit Committee, the Nominations Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Currently Executive Vice President and General Manager of Networks at Nokia having joined in 1998 from Indian mobile operator Modi Telstra (Pte. Ltd.) where he was Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that he held various management positions within Telstra’s Corporate and Government Business Unit.

Non-executive, independent, British, aged 62, appointed to the Board on 1 March 2004; Chairman of the Audit Committee, member of the Nominations Committee and of the Remuneration Committee. Until recently, a London based partner of Ernst & Young. Currently Chairman of TEG Environmental plc, a Director of IntelligentComms Limited and Vanco Energy Company and a Trustee of the Butten Trust.

Non-executive, independent, British, aged 65, appointed to the Board on 10 June 2002; became the Senior Independent Director on 1 March; member of the Audit Committee and the Nominations Committee and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Currently Chairman of Human Capital Limited, Chairman of the University of the Arts London, Governor of Magdalen College School, Oxford and Director of Racing UK Limited and Racing UK Holdings Limited. Formerly Chief Executive, BBC Broadcast. Other posts within the BBC included Managing Director of Network Television.

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