Jim Fairbairn – Group Chief Executive
Appointed: March 2024.
External roles: None.
Past roles: began his career as a design engineer with John Wood Group plc, a multinational engineering and consulting business. Joined Clyde Bergemann in 2000 as Managing Director, and subsequently become CEO of Clyde Process Solutions. Subsequently held several executive management roles with Howden Group, latterly as Divisional CEO of the Power, Environmental and Process Division. He then went on to become Group CEO of Megger Group, a leader in electrical test and measurement products and systems, from 2017 to 2024.
Qualifications: Graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has an MBA from Loughborough University. Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Honorary Doctor of Science from City University.
Ben Fidler – Chief Financial Officer
Appointed: February 2023
External roles: None.
Past roles : Began his career in strategy consulting working for the LEK Partnership. He moved to investment banking in 1997, as an equity research analyst covering the Aerospace & Defence sector at Kleinwort Benson and then Deutsche Bank. Joined Rolls-Royce plc in 2017 where he held a number of senior management positions including Director of Group FP&A, Vice President Business Performance and Deputy Group CFO. Was a Non-Executive director of ITP Aero engines in Spain and Rolls-Royce SMR.
Qualifications: Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
Daniel Dayan – Non-Executive Chair
Appointed: January 2022
External roles: Non-executive Chair of CellMark AB from 2021 (not listed)
Non-executive Chair of Aquaspersions Group from 2021 (not listed)
Past roles: Chair of Portals International from 2020 to 2022. Chair of Low & Bonar plc from 2018 to 2020, Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Chemring Group plc from 2016 to 2018 and Chair of Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute from 2014 to 2015. CEO of Linpac Group and Klöckner Pentaplast Group from 2015 to 2019 and CEO of Fiberweb plc from 2006 to 2013. Daniel spent his early career at Novar plc until 2005 and prior to that worked at ICI and management consultant, Arthur D Little.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Patrick Larmon – Senior Independent Director
Appointed: September 2016
External roles: : Non-Executive Director of Libbey Glass Inc., Handgards Inc., Box Partners LLC and DFS Inc., none of which are listed companies.
Past roles:Executive Vice President and owner of Packaging Products Corporation until 1990 when the company was acquired by Bunzl plc. Held various senior management positions for over 13 years before becoming President of Bunzl’s North America business in 2003, then Chief Executive Officer, North America, of Bunzl plc in 2004, joining the Bunzl plc board in 2005. Retired from Bunzl plc in December 2018 and retired from Huttig Building Products Inc. in 2022.
Qualifications: Graduated from Illinois Benedictine University (major Economics & Business Economics) followed by achieving Certified Public Accountant, followed by an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago and a Masters of International Business from St. Louis University.
Lili Chahbazi – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: January 2018
External roles: Strategy consultant and since 2008 a global partner in the London office of Bain & Company.
Past roles: Lili began her career as an actuary before joining Bain & Company.
Qualifications: Graduated with a BSc in Mathematics from Concordia University, Montreal followed by an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau. Associate of the Society of Actuaries.
Kevin Boyd – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: September 2020
External roles: Non-Executive Chair of Genuit Group plc. Non-Executive Director of Galliford Try Holdings plc from March 2024.
Past roles: Held the positions of Chief Financial Officer at Oxford Instruments plc, Radstone Technology plc and at Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (stepped down in September 2020). He was Non-Executive Director of EMIS Group plc from 2014, Chair of the Audit Committee from 2019 and Senior Independent Director from 2022 until October 2023.
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant, Chartered Engineer. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. BEng, Electronic and Information Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast.
Cynthia Gordon – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: June 2022
External roles: Chair and Non-Executive Director of Global Fashion Group since 2017 and Non-Executive Director of Eutelsat Communications SA since 2019.
Past roles: Began her career at Unilever before moving to Lloyds Bank. Held the positions of VP Business Marketing and VP Partnerships & Emerging Markets at Orange – France Telecom, was Group Chief Commercial Officer at Ooredoo Group and former CEO of Millicom, Africa. Non-executive director of Kinnevik AB, BIMA Mobile, Tele 2 AB and Bayport Financial Services.
Qualifications: Graduated with a BA from the University of Brighton in Business Studies.
Cynthia considers herself as a person of ethnic minority due to her part Asian background.
Beatriz García-Cos Muntañola – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: September 2023
External roles: Chief Financial Officer of Ferroglobe PLC.
Past roles: She has a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Barcelona and began her career at Audigest, Spain, before moving to PPG Industries, Spain. She spent several years at Vestas Wind Systems in Spain and then at Trafigura in Switzerland. She was CFO of Bekaert in Belgium, before being appointed as CFO of Ferroglobe PLC in 2019, based in the UK.
She was also a Non-Executive Director of Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group in the UK from 2016 to 2018.
Qualifications: Graduated with a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Barcelona.
– Executive – Nomination – Remuneration – Audit – Committee chair
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Alison Broughton – Company Secretary
Springwood Court, Springwood Close, Tytherington Business Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2XF
Tel: +44 1625 505300
Registered Number 519057 England and Wales.
Auditors
PWC LLP
Principal Bankers
HSBC Bank plc, Barclays Bank PLC, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Svenska Handelsbanken AB, UniCredit Bank AG, ING Bank NV, Wells Fargo Bank, NA and KBC Bank NV
Solicitors
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and DLA Piper UK LLP
Financial Advisers
Goldman Sachs International and Lazard & Co. Limited
Brokers
HSBC Bank plc and Jefferies Hoare Govett
Registrars
Equiniti Limited
Jim Fairbairn – Group Chief Executive
Appointed: March 2024.
External roles: None.
Past roles: began his career as a design engineer with John Wood Group plc, a multinational engineering and consulting business. Joined Clyde Bergemann in 2000 as Managing Director, and subsequently become CEO of Clyde Process Solutions. Subsequently held several executive management roles with Howden Group, latterly as Divisional CEO of the Power, Environmental and Process Division. He then went on to become Group CEO of Megger Group, a leader in electrical test and measurement products and systems, from 2017 to 2024.
Qualifications: Graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and has an MBA from Loughborough University. Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Honorary Doctor of Science from City University.
Ben Fidler – Chief Financial Officer
Appointed: February 2023
External roles: None.
Past roles : Began his career in strategy consulting working for the LEK Partnership. He moved to investment banking in 1997, as an equity research analyst covering the Aerospace & Defence sector at Kleinwort Benson and then Deutsche Bank. Joined Rolls-Royce plc in 2017 where he held a number of senior management positions including Director of Group FP&A, Vice President Business Performance and Deputy Group CFO. Was a Non-Executive director of ITP Aero engines in Spain and Rolls-Royce SMR.
Qualifications: Masters degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.
Daniel Dayan – Non-Executive Chair
Appointed: January 2022
External roles: Non-executive Chair of CellMark AB from 2021 (not listed)
Non-executive Chair of Aquaspersions Group from 2021 (not listed)
Past roles: Chair of Portals International from 2020 to 2022. Chair of Low & Bonar plc from 2018 to 2020, Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Chemring Group plc from 2016 to 2018 and Chair of Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute from 2014 to 2015. CEO of Linpac Group and Klöckner Pentaplast Group from 2015 to 2019 and CEO of Fiberweb plc from 2006 to 2013. Daniel spent his early career at Novar plc until 2005 and prior to that worked at ICI and management consultant, Arthur D Little.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Patrick Larmon – Senior Independent Director
Appointed: September 2016
External roles: : Non-Executive Director of Libbey Glass Inc., Handgards Inc., Box Partners LLC and DFS Inc., none of which are listed companies.
Past roles:Executive Vice President and owner of Packaging Products Corporation until 1990 when the company was acquired by Bunzl plc. Held various senior management positions for over 13 years before becoming President of Bunzl’s North America business in 2003, then Chief Executive Officer, North America, of Bunzl plc in 2004, joining the Bunzl plc board in 2005. Retired from Bunzl plc in December 2018 and retired from Huttig Building Products Inc. in 2022.
Qualifications: Graduated from Illinois Benedictine University (major Economics & Business Economics) followed by achieving Certified Public Accountant, followed by an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago and a Masters of International Business from St. Louis University.
Lili Chahbazi – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: January 2018
External roles: Strategy consultant and since 2008 a global partner in the London office of Bain & Company.
Past roles: Lili began her career as an actuary before joining Bain & Company.
Qualifications: Graduated with a BSc in Mathematics from Concordia University, Montreal followed by an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau. Associate of the Society of Actuaries.
Kevin Boyd – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: September 2020
External roles: Non-Executive Chair of Genuit Group plc. Non-Executive Director of Galliford Try Holdings plc from March 2024.
Past roles: Held the positions of Chief Financial Officer at Oxford Instruments plc, Radstone Technology plc and at Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc (stepped down in September 2020). He was Non-Executive Director of EMIS Group plc from 2014, Chair of the Audit Committee from 2019 and Senior Independent Director from 2022 until October 2023.
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant, Chartered Engineer. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. BEng, Electronic and Information Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast.
Cynthia Gordon – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: June 2022
External roles: Chair and Non-Executive Director of Global Fashion Group since 2017 and Non-Executive Director of Eutelsat Communications SA since 2019.
Past roles: Began her career at Unilever before moving to Lloyds Bank. Held the positions of VP Business Marketing and VP Partnerships & Emerging Markets at Orange – France Telecom, was Group Chief Commercial Officer at Ooredoo Group and former CEO of Millicom, Africa. Non-executive director of Kinnevik AB, BIMA Mobile, Tele 2 AB and Bayport Financial Services.
Qualifications: Graduated with a BA from the University of Brighton in Business Studies.
Cynthia considers herself as a person of ethnic minority due to her part Asian background.
Beatriz García-Cos Muntañola – Non-Executive Director
Appointed: September 2023
External roles: Chief Financial Officer of Ferroglobe PLC.
Past roles: She has a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Barcelona and began her career at Audigest, Spain, before moving to PPG Industries, Spain. She spent several years at Vestas Wind Systems in Spain and then at Trafigura in Switzerland. She was CFO of Bekaert in Belgium, before being appointed as CFO of Ferroglobe PLC in 2019, based in the UK.
She was also a Non-Executive Director of Bridon-Bekaert Ropes Group in the UK from 2016 to 2018.
Qualifications: Graduated with a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Barcelona.
– Executive – Nomination – Remuneration – Audit – Committee chair
Board skills and experience | D Dayan | J Fairbairn | B Fidler | P Larmon | L Chahbazi | K Boyd | C Gordon | B García-Cos Muntañola |
Strategy | ||||||||
M&A | ||||||||
International | ||||||||
Recent and relevant financial experience | ||||||||
Corporate finance/treasury | ||||||||
Accounting | ||||||||
Technology | ||||||||
Customer | ||||||||
Sales and marketing | ||||||||
Service industry | ||||||||
Environmental, including climate change | ||||||||
Governance | ||||||||
Engineering | ||||||||
Leadership | ||||||||
Emerging markets | ||||||||
Manufacturing | ||||||||
Capital-intensive industries |
Alison Broughton – Company Secretary
Springwood Court, Springwood Close, Tytherington Business Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2XF
Tel: +44 1625 505300
Registered Number 519057 England and Wales.
Auditors
PWC LLP
Principal Bankers
HSBC Bank plc, Barclays Bank PLC, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Svenska Handelsbanken AB, UniCredit Bank AG, ING Bank NV, Wells Fargo Bank, NA and KBC Bank NV
Solicitors
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and DLA Piper UK LLP
Financial Advisers
Goldman Sachs International and Lazard & Co. Limited
Brokers
HSBC Bank plc and Jefferies Hoare Govett
Registrars
Equiniti Limited
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