Stephen Harris – Group Chief Executive

Appointed: November 2008 and Chief Executive from January 2009

Past roles: Spent his early career in engineering with Courtaulds plc and then moved to the USA to join APV Inc from 1984 until 1995, where he held several senior management positions. He was appointed to the Board of Powell Duffryn plc as an Executive Director in 1995 and then went on to join Spectris plc as an Executive Director from 2003 to 2008. He was also a Non-Executive Director of Brixton plc from 2006 to 2009 and of Mondi from 2011 to 2021.

Qualifications: Chartered Engineer, graduated from Cambridge University, Master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

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.

Ian Duncan – Non-Executive Director

Appointed: November 2014

External roles: None

Past roles: Worked on a variety of audits with Deloitte & Touche, followed by four years with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. From 1990 to 1992 he worked for Lloyds Bank plc and then switched to British Nuclear Fuels plc from 1993 to 2006. In 2006 he took on the role of Group Finance Director with Royal Mail Holdings plc leaving in 2010. He was Non-Executive Director of Fiberweb plc during 2013, Mouchel Group from 2013 to 2015, WANdisco plc from 2012 to 2016, Babcock International Group from 2010 to 2020 and SIG plc from 2017 to 31.01.2021.

Qualifications: Chartered Accountant, qualified with Deloitte & Touche after graduating from University of Oxford.

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 Director of EMIS Group since 2014, Chair of the Audit Committee since 2019 and Senior Independent Director from 2022. Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Genuit Group plc from 2020 to 2022, appointed Chair in 2022.

Past roles: Held the positions of Chief Financial Officer at Oxford Instruments plc and Radstone Technology plc and, most recently, Chief Financial Officer at Spirax Sarco Engineering plc which he stepped down from in September 2020.

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.

Ute Ball – Group Company Secretary

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