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THE RT. HON. SIR RICHARD NEEDHAM Chairman Aged 67, Richard was appointed to the Board as Chairman in January 2007. He was Member of Parliament for North Wiltshire from 1979 to 1992 and has served as a Minister in Northern Ireland and as Minister of Trade. In 1994 he was made a Privy Counsellor and was knighted in 1997. He is Vice Chairman of NEC Europe Ltd and an independent Director of Dyson Ltd. He was an Executive Director of GEC PLC, Chairman of GPT Ltd and was previously Chairman of Biocompatibles plc, a Non-Executive Director of Meggitt Plc and has been a Non- Executive Director of a number of other public and private companies. |
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PETER SLABBERT
Chief Executive Aged 47, Peter joined Avon as Group Financial Controller in May 2000. He was appointed Group Finance Director on 1 July 2005 and Chief Executive on 21 April 2008. A Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Management Accountant, Peter joined Avon from Tilbury Douglas where he was Divisional Finance Director and Group Financial Controller. Prior to that he worked at Bearing Power International as Finance Director. |
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ANDREW LEWIS Group Finance Director Aged 38, Andrew joined Avon in September 2008 as Group Finance Director. Andrew holds a 1st Class joint honours degree in Mathematics and Accounting from the University College of North Wales, Bangor and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He gained a wide range of international manufacturing experience as a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Rotork p.l.c. as Group Financial Controller |
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| DAVID EVANS Non-Executive Director Aged 62, David was appointed to the Board in June 2007. He has been working in the defence sector for over 30 years with extensive knowledge of the US market. David spent 17 years with GEC-Marconi before joining Chemring Group PLC in 1987 and was appointed Chief Executive in 1999. He has remained on the Chemring Board as a Non-Executive Director following his retirement in April 2005. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of Whatman PLC |
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STELLA PIRIE OBE Non-Executive Director Aged 59, Stella was appointed to the Board in March 2005. She began her career as an auditor at KPMG before becoming Divisional Finance Director and Group Treasurer of Rotork p.l.c. and then Finance Director of GWR Group Plc. Stella holds a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and is a Non-Executive Director of Schroder UK Growth Fund Plc and Highcross Group Ltd. She is also Chairman of Bath Spa University. Stella was awarded the OBE in 1999. |
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